Air freight although started late, but exceptionally rapid development, especially the favour of a modern enterprise management, one of the reasons is that it has many other advantages can't be matched by the mode of transportation. In summary, the main characteristic of air cargo transportation are:
 
A, fast shipping
 
Since the emergence of the aviation, air transport is famous for its fast. So far, the plane is still the fastest means of transportation, most common economic cruising speed of jet in 850 ~ 900 km per hour. Quick transportation greatly shortens the time of the goods in transit for the perishable, deterioration of fresh goods; Timeliness of newspapers and periodicals, strong seasonal, seasonal goods; Emergency rescue, emergency goods transport, this feature is especially prominent. It can be said that the rapid and intense global air transport network is likely to make our desire and fresh goods before open long-distance markets, make consumers enjoy more benefits.
 
Delivery speed, traveling time is short, also lower the risk of the goods in transit, so many valuables, precision instruments are also often take the form of air transport. In today's international market competition is intense, fast service is provided by the air transport allows the supplier to respond to rapidly changing foreign market immediately, quickly occupy the market launch of marketable products, achieve better economic benefit.
 
Second, is not affected by surface condition, further inland
 
Air transport using the natural channel, the sky is not restricted by geographical conditions. For the ground conditions traffic inconvenience inland areas are very appropriate, is conducive to the export of local resources, promote the development of local economy.
 
Air transport are connected to the world that local and foreign radiating surface is broad, road and rail transport and air transport compared occupy less land, to the treasure land, the small area of the development of foreign traffic is very suitable.
 
Three, safe and accurate
 
With other modes of transportation is higher than air transport security, in 1997, the world's airlines flight for 1800 vehicles, only 11 severe accidents occurred, the risk rate of about one over three million. Airline transportation management system is imperfect, the breakage of the goods is low, if adopt the way of air freight container transport goods, is more safe.
 
Four, cut down the cost of packing, insurance, interest, etc
 
Due to using air transport, the goods in transit time is short, fast turnover, enterprise inventory can be reduced accordingly. On the one hand, is in favor of the recycling of capital, reduce interest payments, on the other hand enterprise storage cost can also be reduced. Again due to air cargo transportation safety, accurate, cargo damage, cargo poor, lower insurance costs. Compared with other modes of transportation, air transportation of simple packaging, packaging costs reduced. All of these constitute the enterprise hidden costs decline, the increase of income.
 
Air transport, of course, also have their own limitations, mainly in air cargo transportation cost is higher than other transportation way, not suitable for low value goods; Aviation vehicle - the plane's capacity is limited, for bulk goods or bulk cargo transportation has certain restrictions; Aircraft flight safety easily affected by the bad weather, and so on. But in general, as emerging technology is more widely used, products tend to be more thin, light, short, small, high value, managers pay more attention to the timeliness, reliability of the transportation, believe that the air freight will have greater prospects for development.