Air cargo sector shoots toward 2021 recovery

Front-end of a Boeing 747 cargo jet, looking straight on to its nose. The plane is white.

While passenger airlines are struggling to survive, the air cargo market is poised to recover to pre-crisis levels in 2021 on the strength of a strong rebound in international trade and huge growth in e-commerce, according to the International Air Transport Association.

For the year, IATA projects air cargo demand to be 11.5% less than in 2019 versus a 66% drop in passenger volumes, but the year-over-year difference in cargo is narrowing each month. Cargo throughput, currently where it was four...

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