Charter a Cargo Aircraft | Air Freight | Air Cargo

A cargo aircraft, or freighter, is an aircraft specially designed (or converted from a passenger version) to fly freight and equipment.

Compared to a passenger aircraft, a freighter usually offers larger doors to load freight, and doesn’t offer passenger amenities.

Most of these aircraft are passengers one converted in cargo, such as the Boeing 747F, but some others have been designed as cargo aircraft directly, such as the Airbus A300-600ST as known as the Beluga, providing even more specific features.

Air freight only represents roughly 1 percent of the overall freight movements by weight, but for 35% of the total value!

The explanation behind this gap relies on air cargo added value since the demand for air cargo is primarily constrained by the costs, as air cargo services can be up to five times the cost of transporting the goods by road, and up to 16 times the cost of sea transport.

Yet this is the quickest solutions and the safest way to handle “sensitive” (and valuable) freight, such as medicines, flowers, perishable goods or live animals such as young chickens or purebred horses.