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low-cost carriers
Fast movers look to their BELLYHOLD
Some low-cost carriers are carrying cargo to generate extra revenue in amarketwhere cutting down passenger fares asmuch as possible is the paramount objective. Others are staying away fromthe idea,more intent on avoiding a potential threat to their vital fast turnaround times. IanMartin Jones reports
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or the newbreed of slimmed-down airline referred to as the low-cost, no-frills or budget carrier, fleet utilisation is king. A fast turnaround time that enables the fleet to keep to tight timings is the difference betweenmaking a profit or just
plainmaking amess of the schedules. Cargo, therefore, has been relegated to a back seat
position in the priorities of some low-cost operators. But, like the full-service‘legacy’passenger airlines – a number ofwhich regularly add up to 10 percent to their total sales revenue by carrying cargo belowtheir passenger decks – some low-cost airlines have been doing very nicely from running an air freight business and others nowseemkeen to investigate the difference that lifting bellyhold air freight loads canmake to their bottomline. If any passenger aircraft flieswith its bellyhold empty,
it is not utilising all of the cash-generating capacity that is available.Of course, passenger baggage takes up some
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