What are the advantages and characteristics of air transport?

(1) fast delivery.

(2) Low breakage rate and good safety.

(C) large spatial span

(four) can save the relevant expenses of production enterprises.

Disadvantages:

(A) the freight rate is relatively high

(2) Limited load

Vulnerable to the weather.

With the development of air freight business, air freight forwarding industry came into being. Air transport of import and export goods requires certain procedures, such as booking, warehousing, document preparation, customs declaration and delivery of export goods before they are delivered to airlines at the place of origin; Receiving, supervising and storing, making documents, customs declaration, delivery and transshipment of imported goods at the airline or airport of the destination airport. Airlines are generally not responsible for the above business, therefore, the consignee or consignor must handle the air freight business through the air freight forwarding company or handle the air freight business with the airlines themselves.

The main business of airlines is flight guarantee. Due to the influence of human and material resources, it is difficult to directly face many customers and handle complex services before and after shipping. This requires air freight forwarding companies to collect goods for airlines' exports, organize the supply of goods, issue waybills, collect freight, import ports, declare for inspection, deliver goods and transit, so that airlines can concentrate on their own business and further develop air transportation.

The work of air freight forwarders is an indispensable part of the whole air transport, and its service function brings convenience and benefits to both shippers and airlines. With the rapid growth of foreign trade in China in recent years, the air freight forwarding industry has developed rapidly.

As a bridge and link between the shipper and the airline, the air freight forwarding company generally has two functions:

—— Functions of providing services for clients: handling consignments or picking up goods from airlines on behalf of clients;

-Agency function of airlines: Some freight forwarders also accept goods instead of airlines, and issue the airline's master waybill and their own sub-waybill.

Most air freight forwarding companies are very familiar with air transport links and related rules and regulations, and have extensive and close ties with airlines, airports, customs, commodity inspection, health inspection, animal and plant inspection and other transport departments, and have all kinds of facilities and necessary conditions for air freight forwarding. At the same time, air freight forwarding companies have branches or agency networks all over the world, so they can contact in time and master the whole process of cargo transportation. Therefore, it is more convenient to entrust an air freight forwarding company to handle the transportation of import and export goods.