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AirAsiawe are loading between 2 and 2.5 tonnes on each flight in a handling process that takes 22minutes in a turnaround time of 25minutes. At that level, I thinkwe are doing a pretty good job.” AirAsia X has an entirely different business case.With a
growing list of A330/340 services to Australia, India, the Middle East, Europe and especially China, it can carry freight over long distances onwidebody aircraft offering more than 10 tonnes of capacity on each flight.While the turnaround times are still just as vital, the revenue-earning possibilities here are harder to ignore. “We are regularly carrying between 10 and 12 tonnes on each of the daily AirAsia X A340 flights fromKuala Lumpur into London Stansted airport,”Manoharen noted. “We’re getting that sort of load bothways.”
THE US MARKET On the other side of theworld, the United Stateswas an innovator in the low-costmarket and the nation has awide range of budget carriers offering cargo services. NewYork- headquartered JetBlue has carried bellyhold freight since it started in business. In themiddle of 2009 Airline Network Services (ANS)was appointed cargo general sales agent for
freightmoving out of the carrier’s NewYork airport hubs onmore than 180 flights every day. Southwest Airlines,which began life in 1972 as a small
low-cost carrier inTexas, has grown to become one of the largest airlines in America. At the end of 2009, Southwest was operating 537 narrowbody B737 aircraft onwhich it had carried 82,553 tonnes of cargo during the year, so it is certainly paying attention to the cash-earning potential. Yet, the carrier says it has 90,718 tonnes of cargo space available everymonth – so there is still someway to go to make the best of the opportunity. In Canada, low-cost B737 operatorWestJet nowflies to
some 30 domestic destinations and an additional 37 cities across its US,Mexico and Caribbean network,with a cargo service that reaches all points. Earlier this year,WestJet signed an agreementwith Calgary-based Exp-Air Cargo to market the carrier’s range of freight services and products for cargo customers throughout Canada, the US,Mexico and the Caribbean. Meanwhile, serving an areawhere historically everyone
appreciates a good deal, low-cost carriers abound in the Middle East.With a route network covering theMiddle East, Africa, the Indian sub-continent and the CIS, Sharjah-
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