Originally Posted by
atakacs
Thanks for those Infos.
I fully understand the need for rapid import of those face masks but I was just wondering about the economics of chartering the 225 for that purpose in what I would have thought to be a bear market for air cargo. I would think that two rotations of a Lufthansa cargo MD11 would be more economical - but I'm clearly not in the know.
Both LH Cargo and Aerologic appear extremely busy presently, last week LH Cargo were operating at least 2, sometimes 3 MD11 freighters per day between Toronto and Frankfurt, Aerologic also appear very busy. DHL are using the likes of Cargojet and Amerijet across the Atlantic, and everything points to there being very little slack in the pure cargo system at the moment.
Of course boxes could be "hand balled" into the cabin of PAX aircraft but I can't imagine just how labour intensive it must be to load and unload cargo shipped this way, and of course time is money on various levels, whether it be aircraft down time, crew or ground handling.