Cargo airline

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Cargo airlines (or airfreight carriers, and derivatives of these names) are airlines dedicated to the transport of cargo. Some cargo airlines are divisions or subsidiaries of larger passenger airlines.

Contents 1 Aircraft used 2 Notable cargo airlines 2.1 All-cargo 2.2 All-cargo subsidiary 2.3 Non-separate entity 3 World's largest freight carriers by scheduled freight tonne-kilometres flown 3.1 2004 total scheduled freight tonne-kilometres flown 3.2 2004 international scheduled freight tonne-kilometres flown 3.3 2004 domestic scheduled freight tonne-kilometres flown 4 See Also

[edit] Aircraft used

Larger cargo airlines tend to use new or recently built aircraft to carry their freight, but many use older aircraft, like the Boeing 707, Boeing 727, Douglas DC-8, Ilyushin Il-76. Examples of the 60-year-old Douglas DC-3 are still flying around the world carrying cargo (as well as passengers). Short range turboprop airliners such as the Fokker Friendship and British Aerospace ATP are now being modified to accept standard air freight pallets to extend their working lives. This normally involves the replacement of glazed windows with opaque panels, the strengthening of the cabin floor and insertion of a broad top-hinged door in one side of the fuselage.

A number of cargo airlines carry a few passengers from time to time on their flights, and UPS once unsuccessfully tried a passenger charter airline division.

[edit] Notable cargo airlines

[edit] All-cargo

• ABX Air
• Airnet Express
• Air Hong Kong
• American International Airways/Kalitta
• Atlas Air
• Burlington Air Express
• Cargo 360
• Cargojet Airways
• Cargolux
• Challenger Air Cargo
• DAS Air Cargo
• DHL Aviation
• Emerald Air
• Emery Worldwide
• FedEx
• Fine Air
• Flying Tiger Line
• Gemini Air Cargo
• Heavylift Cargo Airlines
• Kalitta Air
• Kelowna Flightcraft (on behalf of Purolator)
• Martinair
• National Air Cargo
• Polar Air Cargo
• Seaboard World Airlines
• TNT
• Tol Air
• UPS
• Volga-Dnepr

[edit] All-cargo subsidiary

• Aeromexpress
• Thai Airways Cargo
• Air India
• Air France Cargo
• American Airlines Cargo
• Avianca Cargo
• British Airways World Cargo
• Delta Cargo-Delta operated hercules airplanes on cargo only routes during the 1970's
• Emirates SkyCargo
• KLM Cargo
• LAN Cargo
• Lufthansa Cargo
• MASkargo
• Nippon Cargo Airlines (NCA, an associate of ANA)
• Northwest Cargo
• Pan Am Cargo
• SAS Cargo Group
• Singapore Airlines Cargo
• Qatar Airways Cargo

[edit] Non-separate entity

• Cathay Pacific
• China Airlines

[edit] World's largest freight carriers by scheduled freight tonne-kilometres flown

[edit] 2004 total scheduled freight tonne-kilometres flown

1. Federal Express 14.579 million
2. Korean Air 8.264 million
3. Lufthansa Cargo 8.040 million
4. United Parcel Service 7.353 million
5. Singapore Airlines Cargo 7.143 million
6. Cathay Pacific 5.876 million
7. China Airlines 5.642 million
8. Eva Airways 5.477 million
9. Air France 5.388 million
10. Japan Airlines 4.924 million

[edit] 2004 international scheduled freight tonne-kilometres flown

1. Korean Air 8.164 million
2. Lufthansa Cargo 8.028 million
3. Singapore Airlines Cargo 7.143 million
4. Cathay Pacific 5.876 million
5. China Airlines 5.642 million
6. Federal Express 5.595 million
7. Eva Airways 5.477 million
8. Air France 5.384 million
9. British Airways 4.771 million
10. Cargolux 4.670 million

[edit] 2004 domestic scheduled freight tonne-kilometres flown

1. Federal Express 8.984 million
2. United Parcel Service 4.260 million
3. Northwest Airlines 0.949 million
4. China Southern Airlines 0.860 million
5. American Airlines 0.576 million
6. Delta Air Lines 0.557 million
7. Air China 0.531 million
8. United Airlines 0.525 million
9. Cargojet Airways 0.517 million
10. China Eastern Airlines 0.458 million

Source for 2004 data: International Air Transport Association. Note that it only includes data for member airlines.

[edit] See Also

• Directory of Air Cargo Operators and Brokers