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Conventional passenger airplane

Conventional airliners that carry cargo in their lower deck (belly) ● Most planes carry airfreight (either loose, or palletized) along with passenger luggage. ● International cargo services on passenger planes are often unreliable because airlines bump freight for more passengers and their luggage ● International cargo using conventional passenger aircraft is usually urgent and used for machine or computer parts needed for critical repairs or fresh produce

Freight tonne kilometers

Measures actual freight traffic. One metric tonne of revenue load carried one kilometer.

Airlines services provided

Regularly scheduled air transportation services for passengers or freight Airlines can used passenger aircraft or freight airplanes.

Roller deck

The configuration of the deck of an aircraft when it is designed to accept cargo shipments; the deck is equipped with rollers and bearings that allow cargo to be moved in any direction without much friction

On board courier (OBC)

When very urgent cargo needs to be shipped and cannot afford to be bumped. A passenger who uses his/her luggage allotment for cargo. Used for urgent documents and small spare pets.

Freighters

■ Conventional aircrafts equipped (or retrofitted) to carry cargo exclusively, used either as airliners or as charters ■ Aircrafts of unusual design or capacity that are used for project cargo, almost exclusively as charters ■ most air freighters are liners in that they operate on a regular schedule.

Non conventional airfreighters

● Goods need to be there as soon as possible, and using regular airline would be too much delay ● Goods don't fit into aircraft of regular scheduled route ● Goods need to be at a location where regularly scheduled airfreight service is not available ● Goods need to be delivered where infrastructure will not support a conventional aircraft.

Volume weight

A weight, calculated based upon the dimensions of a shipment, used by airlines to determine the tariff to be charged to a shipper, when a shipment is not very dense. The volume weight equivalency is that 6,000 cm3 is 1 kg (or that 1 m3 is 166.67 kg). In all instances, an airline charges the higher of the actual weight and the volume weight. Volume weight is also called dimensional weight.

Charter service

Aircraft leased for a single voyage (or limited number of voyages) under a wet or dry lease (where the aircraft owner provides the aircraft, the maintenance and the crew)

Open sky agreement

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

Passenger airplanes

Can be either combis or conventional passenger aircraft, but has to follow these contraints: ○ Size of airplane's belly limits the cargo that can fit ○ Size of the airplane's door limits the size of the cargo that can be loaded ○ Many items prohibited from being carried on board passenger aircrafts

Combi airliners

Carry cargo on the main deck along with traveling passengers ● The aft portion of the aircraft is reserved for palletized freight. ● are used when there is not sufficient passenger or cargo demand