News / Flood of ecommerce will provoke airfreight peak season capacity crunch

Pierre van der Stichele, VP of cargo at Air Partner

Widebody freighter aircraft will be “impossible” to charter by the fourth quarter.

According to Pierre van der Stichele, VP of cargo at charter broker Air Partner, the flood of e-commerce traffic will mean stakeholders must “ride the storm” of capacity shortages.

“In Q4 this year, widebody and long-range aircraft capacity will be very hard, if not impossible, to find,” he told The Loadstar on the sidelines of last week’s Multimodal event in Birmingham.

“The main reason for this is that traditional routes operated ...