News / Flexible airfreight must find balanced traffic flows to keep networks in tact

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The flexibility of airfreight is both a blessing and a curse for shippers: it can easily switch capacity to distressed – and therefore profitable  ? markets, but consequently leave existing customers in a bind. 

Last week, data-driven consultancy Rotate noted how air cargo had “come to the rescue of supply chains” amid the brief ILA strike that sent ocean-shipping supply chains into a spin. Its data showed that Europe-North America freighter capacity went up by 11% (equivalent to six Boeing 777 ...