The pandemic threw airfreight patterns into reverse – and now large forwarders are considering making this permanent.
Over the two decades leading to the Covid-19 outbreak, passenger airlines had been adding routes to second-tier airports, which saw the erosion of flows through gateways like New York’s JFK Airport.
Without traffic – passenger or cargo – to sustain secondary gateways, the pandemic jerked traffic back to the main hubs.
So will the recovery of …

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