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Old 02-03-2011, 09:06 AM
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I was looking at cargo/freight rates in Alaska and I was wondering how they make any money up there as their rates seem to be bare bones commodity rates. Example, 77 cents a pound to fly a distance of 330 sm. Are they flying fully loaded B737’s? Fedex and UPS offer their overnight services on similar routes and are charging $6-8 a pound. With such a price discrepancy do people just go to the airport to pickup their own freight?
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Old 02-03-2011, 09:48 AM
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Yep. You drop it off, you pick it up.
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Old 02-03-2011, 09:52 AM
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Additionally, there's fuel surcharges, priority surcharges, gauranteed next day/flight surcharges. All the carriers are making money, I guess, but some of them seem to be just barely.
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