Author(s)

Hongzhi Liu ¹, Linlin Li ¹, Jinglei Yu ¹

Affiliation(s)

¹ Institute of Civil Aviation- Development and Planning, China Academy of Civil Aviation- Science and Technology, Beijing, China

Corresponding Author

Hongzhi Liu

ABSTRACT

The COVID-19 pandemic impacted our lives, as well as our economy and society severely. Air freight has been playing an important role in the epidemic prevention. However, it also impacted by the COVID-19 severely. It is a primary task to promote our air freight capacity to enhance the safety of our industrial chain and supply chain, in the context of the COVID-19 pandemic. To take meaningful comparisons from a holistic perspective of the air freight market, analyses are conducted based on the market shares rather than absolute values of cargo volume. We analyze the impact of the COVID-19 on air freight market shares, conduct operation comparison of main types of air freighters, rank top 20 city-pair in cargo weight flying by overseas airlines, compare the load of air freighters of domestic and overseas airlines, before and after of the COVID-19 outbreak, and propose some suggestions to promote the air cargo sector in China.

KEYWORDS

air cargo, air freight, cargo airlines, market share

CITE THIS PAPER

Hongzhi Liu, Linlin Li, Jinglei Yu, China's Air Freight Market Observation before and after the COVID-19 Outbreak and Its Enlightenment. Industrial Engineering and Innovation Management (2022) Vol. 5: 76-84. DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.23977/ieim.2022.050709.

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