Sentence examples for airfreight industry from inspiring English sources

The Justice Department could help this process along by allowing passenger carriers to take a page from the airfreight industry, which was also deregulated in 1978, by approving the merger of USAirways and American Airlines and therefore letting passenger airlines here compete successfully in the capital markets.

While many American politicians have pushed for physical inspection of every parcel and pallet that enters an aircraft cargo hold — just as security screenings are required for all passengers — the global airfreight industry has argued that such an approach risks paralyzing a business that represents some 40 percent of the value of global trade.

"The third quarter was very challenging due to continued weakness in international airfreight markets, pressure on yields due to industry overcapacity and customers selecting less expensive and slow-transit services," Frederick W. Smith, the company's chairman and chief executive, said in a statement.

The global airfreight business is returning to the growth that sustained the industry before the bottom fell out during the dot-com bubble of 2000 and the impact of Sept. 11, 2001.

But airfreight costs six times the amount.

The development of airfreight has emphasized interregional and international competition.

Ringway is owned by the city and is the country's second airfreight terminal.

"Airfreight is by definition naturally urgent," Siim Kallas, the European transport commissioner, said in a statement.

But thanks to huge improvements in airfreight, chefs here can now buy anything from anywhere in the world.

Both are retired, Gerald from working for an airfreight company, and Lew after 28 years as a bank teller.

She announced that Britain will stop the movement of all unaccompanied airfreight from Yemen moving into or via Britain.