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Originally Posted by poorbuthappy
I heard they don't ship back aparently because lots of riders had a hard time be at the airport on time for departure.
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The most probably reason that Air Canada does not offer motorcycle shipping northbound from Bogata to Canada is because Air Canada can make much more money shipping flowers northbound from Columbia. Colombia is the 2nd largest exporter of flowers in the world (2nd only to Netherlands), and every day numerous 747 and other large freighter aircraft head north full of nothing but flowers.
To an airline, shipping a motorcycle is like shipping popcorn... the motorcycle takes up a lot of space, but relative to other air freight, the motorcycle weighs nothing. Air Canada can make some "money for nothing" by putting a motorcycle (average weight perhaps 600 pounds) into an empty container that is capable of holding 6,000 pounds... they have to ship the empty container back down south anyway, so why not stuff a motorcycle into it?
But, when it comes to northbound cargo, shipping 6,000 pounds of time-sensitive flowers in the same container pays a heck of a lot more than shipping a motorcycle in the same container.
If you pressed hard enough and were persistent enough, you could get Air Canada to ship your moto northbound, but you would not want to know what the price would be... my guess is it would cost you about $4K.
Hope this puts things in perspective.
Michael
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