Originally Posted by
mikethe1
Hi,
I'll start with a confession that I'm absolutely not a professional in this world of cargo, airlines etc. So although there might be many little points where below idea might not work, I'm more interested about the big idea - and where might be significant show stoppers...
With the recent inception of high bypass ratio engine airplanes (87, 50, NEO, MAX) we will see long haul LCC with narrow body airplanes flaying point 2 point low demand destinations. Essentially disrupting the Trans-Atlantic market.
Why we don't see air cargo operators taking the advantage over this technology improvement and disrupting the current Hub & Spoke paradigm in the air cargo world?
With Point 2 Point on narrow body airplanes suitable address low demand destinations with viable business model of costs, we can imagine new markets for air cargo. And broader speaking - this will be part of what called "Direct to customer logistics". The opportunities are basically introduce World Wide the quality and speed of shipping we see statewide.
You do realize there are only (3) real players in the cargo world?
There is plenty of point to point flying already, in some cases using 747's/MD-11's/777's.
You also have to realize unlike a passenger plane flying 150-300 customers a Cargo plane is flying 500,000-2,000,000+ individual customers.
Hub/Spoke cannot be discounted on the scale Cargo operates.