What are the characteristics of air freight transportation methods

The specific operation methods of forced air freight mainly include: flight transportation, charter transportation, centralized consignment; air urgent delivery, cash on delivery, air transportation, etc.

1. A flight is an airplane that departs, schedules a route, determines a departure station, a transit station, and a destination station in a designated period. Its biggest feature is that it can accurately grasp the departure and arrival time.

2. Charter flight transportation means that the airline or charter agency leases the entire aircraft or part of the cabin to the charterer (cabin) from one or several air stations in accordance with the conditions and rates agreed with the charterer in advance. Ship to the designated destination. Generally speaking, the freight for chartered flights (cabins) is lower than that of flights, but the scope of activities is smaller.

3. The centralized consignment method refers to the way that the air freight forwarding company combines several batches of scattered cargo shipped separately into a whole batch and consigns them to the airline in a centralized manner. Fill out a master air waybill and send it to the same arrival station, and then the air freight forwarding company entrusts the local agent to be responsible for receiving the goods and assigning them to the actual consignees. The biggest feature of this method is that it can obtain a lower freight rate than sporadic consignments and reduce the cumbersome handling of consignments by the consignor.

4. Air express transportation means air express. This method is especially suitable for the fast transportation of small items such as urgently needed items, medical equipment, valuables, drawings and documents, key parts, samples, documents, etc., and adapts to the fast-paced needs of modern society.

5. The method of payment on delivery is an agreement reached in advance between the shipper or its agent and the carrier, and the carrier shall act on behalf of the shipper or its agent when the goods arrive at the destination and hand them over to the consignee. Collect the price of the goods recorded on the air waybill, and then send it to the consignor or its agent, which is the business of collecting payment. The air freight, declared value fee and corresponding handling fee are prepaid by the consignor or paid by the consignee at the destination.

6. The use of container transportation in air transportation is a general trend. However, due to the special shape of the aircraft cabin, in addition to the standard containers that can be used in the cargo holds of large aircraft, non-standard containers of various sizes, volumes, and shapes are generally used for the containers used. The use of container transportation is mainly to improve transportation efficiency, save packaging, and facilitate turnover.