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DC-10
Cargo airlines (or
airfreight carriers, and derivatives of these names) are airlines dedicated to the transport of cargo. Some cargo airlines are divisions or subsidiaries of larger passenger airlines.
Logistics
Air transport or rather airfreight is a component of the logistics, too. However, Logistics is the art and science of managing and controlling the flow of goods, energy, information and other resources like products, services, and people, from the source of production to the marketplace. It is difficult or nearly impossible to accomplish any international trading, global export/import processes, international repositioning of raw materials/products and manufacturing without a professional logistical support. It involves the integration of information, transportation, inventory, warehousing, material handling, and packaging. The operating responsibility of logistics is the geographical repositioning of raw materials, work in process, and finished inventories where required at the lowest cost possible.
Aircraft used
Larger cargo airlines tend to use new or recently built aircraft to carry their freight, but many use older aircraft, like the
Boeing 707, Boeing 727,
Douglas DC-8, DC-10,
MD-11,
B 747#747-200F,
Ilyushin Il-76. Examples of the 60-year-old Douglas DC-3 are still flying around the world carrying cargo (as well as passengers). Short range
turboprop airliners such as the An-12,
An-26, Fokker Friendship, and
British Aerospace ATP are now being modified to accept standard air freight pallets to extend their working lives. This normally involves the replacement of glazed windows with opaque panels, the strengthening of the cabin floor and insertion of a broad top-hinged door in one side of the fuselage.
A number of cargo airlines carry a few passengers from time to time on their flights, and
United Parcel Service once unsuccessfully tried a passenger
charter airline division.
Notable cargo airlines
All-cargo
Hercules used for cargo in the Canadian Arctic
Murray Air (National Air Cargo Group)
All-cargo subsidiary
- Aeromexpress
- Air India
- Air France Cargo
- Alaska Air Cargo
- Avianca Cargo
- British Airways World Cargo
- China Cargo Airlines
- Delta Cargo-Delta Air Lines operated hercules airplanes on cargo only routes during the 1970s
- Emirates SkyCargo
- KLM Cargo
- LAN Chile Cargo
- Lufthansa Cargo
- Malaysia Airlines Kargo
- Nippon Cargo Airlines (NCA, an associate of All Nippon Airways)
- Northwest Cargo
- Pan Am Cargo
- SAS Cargo Group
- Singapore Airlines Cargo
- Swiss WorldCargo
- World Airways Cargo
- Qatar Airways Cargo
Non-separate entity
World's largest freight carriers by scheduled freight tonne-kilometres flown
2004 total scheduled freight tonne-kilometres flown
Federal Express 14.579 million
Korean Air 8.264 million
Lufthansa Cargo 8.040 million
United Parcel Service 7.353 million
Singapore Airlines Cargo 7.143 million
Cathay Pacific 5.876 million
China Airlines 5.642 million
Eva Airways 5.477 million
Air France 5.388 million
Japan Airlines 4.924 million
2004 international scheduled freight tonne-kilometres flown
Korean Air 8.164 million
Lufthansa Cargo 8.028 million
Singapore Airlines Cargo 7.143 million
Cathay Pacific 5.876 million
China Airlines 5.642 million
Federal Express 5.595 million
Eva Airways 5.477 million
Air France 5.384 million
British Airways 4.771 million
Cargolux 4.670 million
2004 domestic scheduled freight tonne-kilometres flown
Federal Express 8.984 million
United Parcel Service 4.260 million
Northwest Airlines 0.949 million
China Southern Airlines 0.860 million
American Airlines 0.576 million
Delta Air Lines 0.557 million
Air China 0.531 million
United Airlines 0.525 million
Cargojet Airways 0.517 million
China Eastern Airlines 0.458 million
Source for 2004 data:
International Air Transport Association. Note that it only includes data for member airlines.
External links
- Directory of Air Cargo Operators and Brokers
DC-10
Cargo airlines (or
airfreight carriers, and derivatives of these names) are
airlines dedicated to the
transport of
cargo. Some cargo airlines are divisions or subsidiaries of larger passenger airlines.
Logistics
Air transport or rather airfreight is a component of the logistics, too. However,
Logistics is the art and science of managing and controlling the flow of goods, energy, information and other resources like products, services, and people, from the source of production to the marketplace. It is difficult or nearly impossible to accomplish any international trading, global export/import processes, international repositioning of raw materials/products and manufacturing without a professional logistical support. It involves the integration of information, transportation, inventory, warehousing, material handling, and packaging. The operating responsibility of logistics is the geographical repositioning of raw materials, work in process, and finished inventories where required at the lowest cost possible.
Aircraft used
Larger cargo airlines tend to use new or recently built aircraft to carry their freight, but many use older aircraft, like the
Boeing 707, Boeing 727,
Douglas DC-8,
DC-10,
MD-11,
B 747#747-200F,
Ilyushin Il-76. Examples of the 60-year-old Douglas DC-3 are still flying around the world carrying cargo (as well as passengers). Short range turboprop airliners such as the
An-12, An-26,
Fokker Friendship, and
British Aerospace ATP are now being modified to accept standard air freight pallets to extend their working lives. This normally involves the replacement of glazed windows with opaque panels, the strengthening of the cabin floor and insertion of a broad top-hinged door in one side of the fuselage.
A number of cargo airlines carry a few passengers from time to time on their flights, and
United Parcel Service once unsuccessfully tried a passenger
charter airline division.
Notable cargo airlines
All-cargo
Hercules used for cargo in the Canadian Arctic
Murray Air (National Air Cargo Group)
All-cargo subsidiary
Non-separate entity
World's largest freight carriers by scheduled freight
tonne-kilometres flown
2004 total scheduled freight tonne-kilometres flown
Federal Express 14.579 million
Korean Air 8.264 million
Lufthansa Cargo 8.040 million
United Parcel Service 7.353 million
Singapore Airlines Cargo 7.143 million
Cathay Pacific 5.876 million
China Airlines 5.642 million
Eva Airways 5.477 million
Air France 5.388 million
Japan Airlines 4.924 million
2004 international scheduled freight tonne-kilometres flown
Korean Air 8.164 million
Lufthansa Cargo 8.028 million
Singapore Airlines Cargo 7.143 million
Cathay Pacific 5.876 million
China Airlines 5.642 million
Federal Express 5.595 million
Eva Airways 5.477 million
Air France 5.384 million
British Airways 4.771 million
Cargolux 4.670 million
2004 domestic scheduled freight tonne-kilometres flown
Federal Express 8.984 million
United Parcel Service 4.260 million
Northwest Airlines 0.949 million
China Southern Airlines 0.860 million
American Airlines 0.576 million
Delta Air Lines 0.557 million
Air China 0.531 million
United Airlines 0.525 million
Cargojet Airways 0.517 million
China Eastern Airlines 0.458 million
Source for 2004 data:
International Air Transport Association. Note that it only includes data for member airlines.
External links
- Directory of Air Cargo Operators and Brokers
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