News / 'We're all in it together' and air cargo can make it through crises, says dnata

The pandemic downturn came at a particularly bad time for handler dnata, which was in the process of constructing new facilities when passenger traffic suddenly plummeted.

In response, the company consolidated its diminished cargo volumes at fewer facilities and quickly adapted to the new reality of cargo-in-cabin (CIC), a new freight transfer mode invented more or less on the spot, to amortise otherwise unusable passenger planes.

Though many had expected CIC to be peculiar to the pandemic, the world’s purpose-built cargo ...