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11 Cards in this Set
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Types of Aircraft:
Conventional Passenger Airplanes |
Conventional airliners that carry cargo in their lower deck (belly)
Combi airliners that carry cargo on the main deck |
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Types of Aircraft:
Freighters |
Conventional aircrafts equipped (or retrofitted) to carry cargo exclusively, used either as airliners or as charters
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Why Air ship it:
When the commodity is: |
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Types of Aircrafts:
Conventional Freighters |
- most airfreighters are "liners" in that they operate on a regular schedule
- same type of plane used in passenger |
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Types of Aircrafts:
Non-Conventional airfreighters |
- goods need to be there as soon as possible and using a regularly scheduled airline flight would result in too much delay
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Lufthansa's Frankfurt hub- Fall 2011
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-Night ban-outlawing of flights from 11PM-5AM
-Costing the firm $42-69 million to the supply chain -45% of German air freight moves on passenger flights to nearly 300 destinations. Frankfurt accounts for 80% of Lufthansa's tonnage. - "Frankfurt is the world's seventh largest q |
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Domestic Regulation
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International Regulation
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-Paris convention of 1919 established sovereignty of a country over its airspace
-Under International Air Transport Association (IATA) and international Civil Aviation Organization (ICAO) rules, a country can... |
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FIVE FREEDOMS:
Bilateral agreements |
- Overflight- right to fly into a country's airspace
-Service stops: right to stop... |
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FREIGHT TARIFF:
Freight Charges |
determined by the weight of cargo, as well as its volume (dimensions).
- Other considerations - - - |
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CURRENT FREIGHT RATES
Rise in jet fuels |
- 10% price increase in 07, 67% increase in 08 (end Q3)
- Every $1 increase in crude oil adds $465 million to jet fuel expenses |
