Air cargo

The organizer of the aviation display, Walter Windham, was able to secure permission from the postmaster general in India to operate an airmail service in order to generate publicity for the exhibition and to raise money for charity.This first airmail flight was piloted by Henri Pequet, who flew 6,500 letters a distance of 13 km (8.1 mi), from Allahabad to Naini—the nearest station on the Bombay-Calcutta line to the exhibition.The world's first scheduled airmail post service took place in the United Kingdom between the London suburb of Hendon, and the Postmaster General's office in Windsor, Berkshire, on September 9, 1911.In the early 1920s, air cargo developed rapidly because numerous entrepreneurs realized aircraft could move high value and low volume consignments much faster than the railroads and shipping companies.Germany and Japan were emerging from their period of purgatory and were poised to take the world of business by storm, the United States was approaching the height of its economic dominance, and Western Europe had recovered from the war.Many retailers are making an effort to integrate the air cargo delivery process with their customer service offering to respond to increasing consumer pressure.
A FedEx Express Boeing 777F taxiing at Narita International Airport in Tokyo , Japan in 2012
A Volga-Dnepr Airlines An-124 cargo aircraft ready for loading in 2008
Global air transport by country and freight level as of 2017 (ton-km) [ 1 ]
Loading airmail cargo in Detroit in the late 1930s
A Douglas C-54 at Berlin Tempelhof Airport during the Berlin Blockade in 1948
A FedEx Boeing 777 , a UPS Boeing 747-400 , and a DHL tail cargo planes at Cologne Bonn Airport in 2016
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