Impact corona virus on air cargo.
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From: Vienna, Austria
It's about reduction. To keep the number of people in need of treatment below the number of available hospital capacity. 100 percent is impossible, but the more people staying at home the better. Sorry for off-topic.
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From: aboard
For freighters, business is booming
For once, freighters are where the money is. For the time being.
Prices are skyrocketing, rising from 2$ per kg to 10 in a matter of days.
Full loads to and from the Far East, same story North Atlantic.
Crews moved from city hotels to near-deserted beach hotels. Emergency rations in their overnight bag, because food availability is not guaranteed.
Some airlines even 'intern' their crews in hotels at homebase, to avoid them from getting sick while home.
'May you live in interesting times'
Prices are skyrocketing, rising from 2$ per kg to 10 in a matter of days.
Full loads to and from the Far East, same story North Atlantic.
Crews moved from city hotels to near-deserted beach hotels. Emergency rations in their overnight bag, because food availability is not guaranteed.
Some airlines even 'intern' their crews in hotels at homebase, to avoid them from getting sick while home.
'May you live in interesting times'
Last edited by Mariner; 21st March 2020 at 13:53. Reason: typo..
Joined: Aug 2018
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From: Midlands
For once, freighters are where the money is. For the time being.
Prices are skyrocketing, rising from 2$ per kg to 10 in a matter of days.
Full loads to and from the Far East, same story North Atlantic.
Crews moved from city hotels to near-deserted beach hotels. Emergency rations in their overnight bag, because food availability is not guaranteed.
Some airlines even 'intern' their crews in hotels at homebase, to avoid them from getting sick while home.
'May you live in interesting times'
Prices are skyrocketing, rising from 2$ per kg to 10 in a matter of days.
Full loads to and from the Far East, same story North Atlantic.
Crews moved from city hotels to near-deserted beach hotels. Emergency rations in their overnight bag, because food availability is not guaranteed.
Some airlines even 'intern' their crews in hotels at homebase, to avoid them from getting sick while home.
'May you live in interesting times'
The pilots are on big money, have good hotels which they tend to choose and can have personalised rosters in many cases. Many of these guys use to fly passenger aircraft.
But it is in a very different league, but who knows, in the future if UVAs will probably be flying freight first.
Joined: Mar 2020
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From: Beijing
very hard to get any EU a/c now at all.. CN-EU is like 7+usd p/kg now lol
still the US is in the highest demand.. huuuuuuuuuuuge backlog here for us bound cargo
still the US is in the highest demand.. huuuuuuuuuuuge backlog here for us bound cargo
Last edited by riceeater; 27th March 2020 at 06:20.
