SCM 411 Vocabulary Drill 12

Montréal Protocol 4

A 1900 protocol that limits the liability of air carriers to SDR 17 per kilogram of cargo. There is no limit for death or injury.

Warsaw Convention

A 1929 Convention that established the first limits of liability for air carriers.

OBC

A passenger on a regularly scheduled flight who relinquishes his or her baggage allocation to allow cargo in its place.

International Air Transport Association (IATA)

A trade association comprising almost 230 airlines, representing 93 percent of all scheduled air traffic.

ACMI Lease

A type of aircraft lease where the owner is responsible for providing only the aircraft, the crew, maintenance, and insurance.

Combi Aircraft

A type of airplane that is designed to carry both passengers and cargo on the main deck of the plane.

charter airfreight

A type of cargo that can only be shipped on a charter aircraft because it is too heavy, too bulky or its destination is not serviced by a scheduled airfreight service.

FTK

A unit designed to express cargo volume shipped. It is equal to the number of tonnes of cargo shipped multiplied by the number of kilometers they were shipped.

RTK

A unit designed to express total airline activity. It is equal to the number of tonnes of cargo, passengers, baggage, and mail shipped multiplied by the number of kilometers they were shipped.

International Civil Aviation Organization (ICAO)

An agency of the United Nations whose mission is to establish safety and security standards for international civil aviation.

damp lease

An agreement between the owner (lessor) of an aircraft and a lessee, in which the owner provides only the aircraft, maintenance and insurance, but no crew.

Dry Lease

An agreement between the owner (lessor) of an aircraft and a lessee, in which the owner provides only the aircraft, without any other services.

Open Skies Agreement

An agreement between two or more countries whereby air carriers from one of the countries are allowed to serve any of the other countries' airports.

Wet Lease

An agreement under which the owner (lessor) of an aircraft provides the airplane, insurance, a flight crew, maintenance services, and typically fuel to the lessee, who may still have to cover some variable costs, such airport fees. (Note an exception: in the US, where FAA recognizes only dry and wet leases, the crew rather than fuel is the distinguishing factor between the two types of leases.)

Integrator

An air cargo carrier that offers its customers complete door-to-door service.

airfreighter

An aircraft entirely dedicated to the transport of cargo, either originally designed as such or a retrofitted former passenger aircraft.

quick-change aircraft

An aircraft that can very quickly be converted between passenger and freight operations through the use of palletized sections of seats.

volume weight

An artificial weight, determined in function of a the dimensions of a shipment, used by airlines to determine the tariff to be paid for a light shipment.

Time-Definite Shipment

Cargo or package shipments that must be delivered by a guaranteed, predetermined time and day.

express cargo

Cargo shipped with a guaranteed predetermined delivery date.

Lower deck

The deck designed to carry cargo and luggage on an aircraft, located underneath the main deck.

upper deck

The deck designed to carry cargo on an airfreighter and passengers on a passenger aircraft, located above the main deck, on these aircraft: Boeing - 747 & 747F and Airbus - 380 & 380F.

Roller deck

The deck equipped with rollers and bearings that allow cargo to be moved in any direction without much friction.

main deck

The largest deck on an aircraft, the one on which passengers travel in a passenger aircraft.