The history of civil airfreight up to the Second World War is essentially one of airmail. Larger consignments of goods were rarely transported by air. The idea of transporting mail through the air and thus delivering it to the recipient particularly quickly can be traced back to antiquity. The history of air freight really began at the beginning of the twentieth century. The real breakthrough came at the end of the 1960s with the introduction of the first wide-bodied aircraft. Today, goods are transported from all corners of the world, all of which have one of three criteria: they are either particularly valuable, particularly urgent or particularly perishable.


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    Title :

    A Brief History of Air Freight


    Contributors:

    Published in:

    Air Cargo ; Chapter : 1 ; 3-35


    Publication date :

    2023-02-18


    Size :

    33 pages




    Type of media :

    Article/Chapter (Book)


    Type of material :

    Electronic Resource


    Language :

    English