The current state of air cargo capacity

As a result of the COVID-19 pandemic, the world stopped traveling. Closed borders and strict travel requirements meant that actual flight movements were severely impacted, which caused a knock-on effect on air cargo logistics and global trade. But whilst the world returns to the skies once again, air cargo industry players are adapting to a very different landscape.

With our comprehensive, reliable and up-to-date demand and supply databases, our travel industry practice is able to provide insights and data on global air cargo capacity, express and ocean freight demand and capacity on a regular basis.

Strong Transpacific capacity partly caused by US cherries to Asia

Note: Aug 28-Sep 10, 2023 compared to Aug 30-Sep 12, 2019; Direct international flights only; all flows indicate region-to-region capacity; regions indicated by color; dates in UTC;

1) Total air cargo capacity includes widebody passenger and all freighter flights; Source: Accenture Cargo Capacity Tracking database, Accenture analysis (September 2023)

With a higher number of dedicated cherry freighters out of Seattle

Note: 1) Includes direct Seattle (SEA) to Northeast Asia freighter capacity and indirect Seattle to Anchorage capacity destined for Northeast Asia

Source: The Loadstar, September 2023; Accenture Cargo Global Air Trade and Capacity Tracking databases, Accenture Cargo analysis (September 2023)