Advantages and Disadvantages of Air Freight

Odak Logistic offers its customers the most suitable air and sea transportation options for both fair goods and export and import transportation through its years of experience and reliable partners. The movement of passengers and cargo by aircraft such as airplanes and helicopters is called Air Transport. Today, air transport is ahead of other transport models for many reasons. The highest efficiency and value in air transport is achieved in long-distance freight transport, rapid transport of valuable goods, when urgent transport needs arise, where terrain prevents easy movement by road or significantly increases transport costs. Air transport is often valuable even for relatively short distances, although the time and cost efficiency achieved decreases as the distance traveled decreases.

Definition of Air Freight

Air transport is the process of transporting passengers and cargo in the air from one place to another using aircraft, especially airplanes.

Air transport is a component of many international logistics networks that manages and controls the flow of goods, energy, information and other resources such as products, services and people from the source of production to the market. Logistics involves the geographic relocation of raw materials, work in process, and finished stock.^[1]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cargo_airline

Development of Air Freight

Air transport is the newest mode of transport; This means of transportation emerged in 1903, but in the 1930s, people and freight transportation began to be used effectively. Air transport gained momentum after the Second World War. This means of transportation can be used for both domestic and international flights.

Of all the transport developments of the 20th century, the most striking were those in air transport. When the Wright brothers made their historic flight in 1903, who would have thought that this airplane would become one of the most important means of transport in just three generations? The improvements were indeed rapid: jet engines replaced the propellers, radar was introduced, the planes became gigantic in size; supersonic speeds have been achieved and vertical take-off, which nowadays does not require long runways, is now possible.

Today, air transport is used extensively all over the world for both passengers and freight. In general, there are two types of services: those that work for specific purposes and on a temporary basis, and those that run on regular schedules.

Advantages of Air Freight

• Air transport is a fast and efficient system that is especially suitable for passenger traffic and provides comfortable and quality service; Today, almost all long-distance passenger movements are made by air.
• Air transport involves the use of direct routes.
• Suitable for high-quality, expensive and perishable cargo where speed is required; airplanes can also carry loads too small to be of interest to providers of other transport systems.
• It can often reach areas inaccessible by other modes of transport.
• It offers complete freedom of movement and this provides potentially flexible routes and services (although most airline transports are routed along precise routes and political factors can restrict both landing and flight paths).

Disadvantages of Air Freight

• Air freight is very expensive and consequently expensive for any cargo that is heavy, bulky or of low value.
• Aircraft are expensive to manufacture and operate; airport facilities require detailed methods in the form of control systems and maintenance.
• It depends on weather conditions and therefore situations may suddenly arise where it cannot be used.
• As airplanes get bigger, the number of airports that can be used decreases. This reduces flexibility. Finding suitable sites for airport construction is also an increasing challenge.
• Some airports are far from city centers and this balances the advantage of speed and convenience.
• Airports consume valuable land and airplanes cause a lot of noise and air pollution.