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Originally Posted by Hound_Dog
Not anymore. Welcome to the new world of being charged for every millimeter you use. A world where you 150kg biker can weigh 1600kg when it comes to charges. Forget riding into a can, forget paying for your bikes volumetric weight.
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This too shall pass.
Right now, due to a reduction in flights due to COVID, there is a lack of excess volumetric capacity in the belly of aircraft that are still operating. This has resulted in significant increases in the price of air freight. The same thing has happened with sea freight, although for different reasons.
Eventually, when airline schedules get back to normal (meaning, when we get back to the same or greater number of daily flights as operated pre-pandemic), opportunities will again arise to take advantage of excess cubic space in the belly of wide-body aircraft, and prices will return to pre-pandemic levels.
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As an aside, if air carriers are operating wide body aircraft on routes from Vladivostok to sun destinations in Asia, chances are far better than average that there will be excess cargo space available - simply because these aircraft are usually full of passengers and their baggage, but there is not much demand for export cargo from Vladivostok to Asia. So there might be some opportunity on the southbound flights. I doubt, though, that there will be any opportunity on the return flights to Vlad.
Michael
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