News / March a month of two halves for air freight, with carriers forced to adapt

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The air freight results for March are out – and the numbers will surprise few people.

Cargo capacity fell 22.7%, year on year, while cargo tonne km (CTK) dropped 15.2%, according to IATA.

And additional freighter operations (+6.2% in capacity terms) and passenger freighters were not enough to offset the reduction in the passenger fleet, which saw international belly capacity decline by 43.7%.

However, March was a tale of two halves, as the larger impact of Covid-19 hit in the second half of the ...