Thursday, 27 February 2014

Characteristics of Air Transportation

     For this week, our groups want to share about characteristics of air transport. Air transport has come a long way in a short period of time. Airline travel is a common form of transportation for long-distance passenger and freight travel and the only reasonable alternative when time is of the essence. The tremendous speed of the airplane, coupled with more competitive pricing, has led to the growth of air transportation, particularly in the movement of passengers. The airline industry is very dependent on passenger revenues to maintain its financial viability.
     A characteristic of air transport is a high speed. Air is a very high speed because air transportation doesn’t to face a traffic jam. Air transport takes the fast and famous of transportation. Air can arrive in a short time of period depends other modes of transportation. So, the customer will never to wait for a long time to get a product. Fast transport significantly shortened the transit time of goods. Delivery speed, in-transit time is short, but also reduces the risk of goods in transit, so that many valuable items, precision instruments are often used in the form of air transport.
     Next is high security. Air transportation has high security that’s why the price is higher than other modes of transportation. There also have a specific box and place for the goods such as perishable goods like a food, vegetable and meet. Air transport management system will also be more perfect low rate of damage of goods, if the use of air cargo transported in containers, then the more secure. Also, because air cargo transport safety, accuracy, cargo damage, cargo less poor, and insurance costs are lower. Compared with other modes of transportation, air transportation packaging is simple and packaging cost reduction. All these are the hidden costs of the decline in business, revenue increases.
Furthermore, air transportation also high in punctuality. Air transportation has a fixed schedule and arrives at the time. So, they don’t have a delay to transport the goods. They will arrive on time and customer will get goods in a short time. Schedule is a very important when do transaction. Customer will be satisfy when get the goods in time. 


     Lastly, air transportation can sale internationally. With air transportation, we can do import and export activities. Besides that, we can expand for the activity in purchasing. Easy to transport the goods by air transportation and the goods will be in safe.  Air transportation also has accessibility as long there have a port. For the example, Malaysia and Australia. We import the meet at the Australia us air transportation to our country.   

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