Originally Posted by
Navpi
Strategic decison by MAG, ATN. Shifted all freight enquiries to EMA.
I get that, so far as regular or scheduled cargo ops are concerned, where the carrier is approaching the airport for preferential deals, but that doesn't account for adhoc widebody charters.
I doubt very much, given BHX past ambivalence towards cargo, that the likes of Magma/Air Atlanta or National (or their brokers) got preferential rates from the airport for their 747 cargo flights of which there have been many over the past year or so.
The airport can hardly block cargo flights especially if there's a handling agent that wants to handle them. Slots are issued by ACL and I didn't think airports had much say as regards individual allocations.
I am with you, it does seem pretty ludicrous.