United Airlines has arranged a quasi-charter service with a small cargo airline that flies narrowbody freighters from Puerto Rico to feed its Chicago hub with pharmaceutical shipments heading overseas and to health care companies in the Midwest.
The transaction is noteworthy because of the supply chain benefits for businesses, the fact that United Cargo is supplementing capacity with a narrowbody freighter for the first time, and because it is partnering with a startup FreightTech company and a...