Freighter capacity and bellyhold, per-kilo yields by lane, charter programmes, and the e-commerce volumes that now set the direction of the transpacific.
Flight and voice recorder data released by NTSB show the Amazon-contracted Boeing 767 landed roughly 4,000 feet down a 9,360-foot runway, attempted a late go-around, and still couldn't stop before killing five people on the ground.
Global spot rates fell 6% in July, but the number that matters is China to Western Europe — down 22% in a month, three weeks after Brussels scrapped its duty-free threshold.
The Postal Service is flying letters to fill an air contract its parcels can no longer fill — and the third-quarter bill has arrived.
The reshuffle hands a single executive the aircraft, the linehaul fleet and the sort centers — and that same executive decides how much lift Amazon sells to forwarders.
