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Airlines know 2020 will be financially bleak but are seeing some green shoots of customer activity as encouraging.

Most crops don’t grow without seeds. But how are seeds for commercial farming transported? Darren Prokop explores this topic.

If you’re a forwarder and need more airlift to get goods around the world, you’re in luck. Airlines are listening and putting more assets to work.

A perfect storm of events has created the mother-of-all cargo bottlenecks at Shanghai’s Pudong airport, where shipments sit at a standstill in crowded warehouses waiting for overwhelmed Chinese customs officers to inspect outbound PPE shipments.

American is slashing expenses, but not fast enough to stop big profit losses. Here are the details on its first quarter and what it expects going forward.

COVID-19 pandemic challenges American seed producers to secure airfreight capacity to meet spring planting.

Airlines fly people, they don’t make things. Guess again. Delta is making portable human pods for the military and, along with American Airlines, is making face shields.

If it flies, it can be a cargo plane for coronavirus relief missions. Planes are being put to unconventional uses to support the coronavirus response, including cargo-only passenger aircraft with boxes in the seats or on the floor and heavylift cargo planes used by aircraft manufacturers to move wings and other aircraft sections.

Domestic airlines want to put cargo in passenger seats or stacked on the cabin floor, as some foreign counterparts are already doing. But they first need authorization from U.S. authorities.

The FAA is making it easier for airlines to survive the current economic crisis by quickly ruling on how to carry cargo in the passenger cabin and relaxing takeoff and landing quotas.

American will penalize shippers who don’t show up or cancel a booking at the last minute, while Delta is adding more capacity for its scheduled cargo routes to Asia.

Airlines and employees gave a big sigh of relief when Congress recently passed a major industry bailout, but feelings turned to frustration when the Trump administration decided to limit the cash payouts.

Cargo has had a window view on some international airlines. Now U.S. airlines are looking to load boxes in the passenger cabin when operating in cargo-only mode. The next step — remove the seats altogether.

The idea of using passenger planes as freighters would have been considered farfetched in February since the main deck can’t be loaded with large pallets. But when there’s a pandemic and a shortage of cargo space, the logistics community gets creative and these planes are being booked at a rapid pace.

Airlines are bleeding money, but a requirement that they give cash refunds for canceled flights could make things worse. Airlines are cutting more of their domestic networks to save money.

Passenger aircraft are being used to fly essential cargo between continents. Learn more about what the airlines are doing to survive and to assist key supply chains.

Airlines are in survival mode and could permanently rid themselves of older aircraft in effort to help financial recovery.

New Hawaii travel restrictions force airlines to make additional flight cutbacks.

Demand to move goods during the pandemic crisis is high, but available air cargo space is low. Passenger airlines are finding a robust market.

Airlines expected to increase use of truck capacity to move cargo around the country.