U.S. air cargo continues boom
Air freight and express international cargo carried by U.S. airlines surged 16 percent to about 1.04 billion revenue ton-miles in September from 903 million in September 2003, the U.S. Air Transport Association reported.
Freight and express activity increased 17 percent to 547 million revenue ton-miles on Pacific routes in September, and also rose 17 percent to 403 million ton-miles on Atlantic routes in the same month.
The increase on Latin routes was 6 percent to 96 million ton-miles.
Helped by the diversion of ocean shipments to air freight in the transpacific, international air freight and express traffic has reached about 1.05 billion revenue ton-miles a month for the past five months, compared to about 950 million tons-miles a month in May-September 2003.
For the first nine months of the year, freight and express cargo carried by the association’s airlines increased 10 percent year-on-year to 8.9 billion revenue ton-miles.
Air Transport Association airlines are Aloha, Alaska, America West, American, ATA, Continental (including Micronesia), Delta, FedEx, Hawaiian, JetBlue, Midwest, Northwest. Southwest, United, UPS and U.S. Airways.
U.S. air cargo continues boom
