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The pandemic threw airfreight patterns into reverse – and now large forwarders are considering making this permanent.

Over the two decades leading to the Covid-19 outbreak, passenger airlines had been adding routes to second-tier airports, which saw the erosion of flows through gateways like New York’s JFK Airport.

Without traffic – passenger or cargo – to sustain secondary gateways, the pandemic jerked traffic back to the main hubs.

So will the recovery of passenger volumes revive the streams through smaller airports?

Not as far ...

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  • Pichuiyer Balasubramanian

    May 14, 2021 at 2:23 pm

    The big question is do venture capitalists have sufficient knowledge about air cargo industry? If not, how do we ensure that those in the industry get their favorable ears? That’s the one big way to get them to revolutionize this scenario and alleviate this problem.