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Nov 26, 2015 (newstodate): The new Danish brokering company operating since January 1, 2015, Blackbird Air Charter has come off to a fine start.
-One segment that has surprised us pleasantly is the market for VIP and executive flights, says Ole Christiansen, Blackbird CEO.
-While this business is not exactly booming in Europe as a whole, we have noted a brisk market for VIP and executive flights between USA and Europe as well as between African countries, including South Africa and for instance Cameroun, and Europe. This business is new for us and we are keen to develop these potentials further as a complement to our other passenger charter operations.
-One business that we are definitely determined to grow is the ad-hoc cargo charters. This is, however, a challenge in today's environment where cargo capacity in passenger aircraft belly-holds continue to grow, causing over-capacity on many lanes as well as depressed cargo rates on traffic from Europe to Asia.
-This year we are seeing demand for Europe-Asia capacity growing steeply on the west-bound flights while remaining stagnant on east-bound flights. This imbalance is, of course, a problem for the industry. We are approached by customers requesting cargo space from Asia but often the ad-hoc charter rates are too high to make a business case viable.
-To come up with an attractive bid, a one-way ad-hoc charter operation requires that we can identify an aircraft at, or near, the point of departure, or not farther away as to make an empty leg economically feasible. In today's market this is indeed very hard to find, says Mr Christiansen.
-One segment that has surprised us pleasantly is the market for VIP and executive flights, says Ole Christiansen, Blackbird CEO.
-While this business is not exactly booming in Europe as a whole, we have noted a brisk market for VIP and executive flights between USA and Europe as well as between African countries, including South Africa and for instance Cameroun, and Europe. This business is new for us and we are keen to develop these potentials further as a complement to our other passenger charter operations.
-One business that we are definitely determined to grow is the ad-hoc cargo charters. This is, however, a challenge in today's environment where cargo capacity in passenger aircraft belly-holds continue to grow, causing over-capacity on many lanes as well as depressed cargo rates on traffic from Europe to Asia.
-This year we are seeing demand for Europe-Asia capacity growing steeply on the west-bound flights while remaining stagnant on east-bound flights. This imbalance is, of course, a problem for the industry. We are approached by customers requesting cargo space from Asia but often the ad-hoc charter rates are too high to make a business case viable.
-To come up with an attractive bid, a one-way ad-hoc charter operation requires that we can identify an aircraft at, or near, the point of departure, or not farther away as to make an empty leg economically feasible. In today's market this is indeed very hard to find, says Mr Christiansen.