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.
