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The article seems to believe that only passengers are what fly on passenger airplanes. Many times on domestic routes cargo on these planes is more valuable than
by elmerfud 3y ago
The article seems to believe that only passengers are what fly on passenger airplanes. Many times on domestic routes cargo on these planes is more valuable than passengers. Occasionally even on international routes cargo is more valuable than passengers. I don't know about this specific case but clearly they were trying to get around the weekly cap but that doesn't mean the additional leg was a complete waste of resources because there's value in transporting cargo quickly from one area to another.
I was actually taking a Delta flight internationally and they were bumping passengers to make room for additional cargo. Due to the length of the flight and the takeoff weight restrictions that cargo was more valuable than the cheap seats that were paid for.
- kalleboo 3y agoDon't the freedoms of the air that disallow the foreign airline from taking passengers boarding from Melbourne to Adelaide also disallow cargo on the same route? It seems unlikely that there is that big a discrepancy between passengers and cargo to a specific international connecting destination. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Freedoms_of_the_air#Eighth_freedom_(consecutive_cabotage) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Freedoms_of_the_air#Eighth_fre...
- gumby 3y agoThe article actually gives a completely different explanation: as a loophole to get around the cap on flights to Melb. Which is orthogonal to cargo vs passengers.