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Feb 27, 2018 (newstodate): April 1, 2018, will not be a happy April Fools' Day at Sweden's Jonkoping Airport.
The date will mark the final end to the airport's role as a mini-hub for Post Sweden since May 2007 when Post Sweden started transferring mail volumes between Northern and Southern Sweden through Jonkoping, increasing the airport's mail volumes by 400 percent on 22 weekly postal flights.
In response to declining mail volumes, the requirement on Post Sweden has been lowered from 85 percent of all mail delivered overnight to 95 percent to be delivered over two working days.
Postal flights from Jonkoping, Vaxjo and Umeaa will thus be closed down from April 1, 2018.
Mail volumes' proportion of the total cargo handled at Jonkoping Airport was two-thirds in 2011, dropping to only 18 percent in 2017.
Besides postal and ad-hoc freighter operations, the airport's cargo business primarily consists of shipments by TNT, time:matters and DAN'X.
Turn-over from cargo constitutes about one-third of the airport's totals, but cargo operations are today serving only few customers during a brief period of the night leaving the airport with a full-scale security-certified cargo terminal with much excess capacity to be utilized.
The airport's former Marketing Manager till the end of 2017, Herman Larsson has been engaged to support the airport's new Marketing Manager, Henrik Alverdal, in seeking new business opportunities for Jonkoping Airport's cargo facility.
The date will mark the final end to the airport's role as a mini-hub for Post Sweden since May 2007 when Post Sweden started transferring mail volumes between Northern and Southern Sweden through Jonkoping, increasing the airport's mail volumes by 400 percent on 22 weekly postal flights.
In response to declining mail volumes, the requirement on Post Sweden has been lowered from 85 percent of all mail delivered overnight to 95 percent to be delivered over two working days.
Postal flights from Jonkoping, Vaxjo and Umeaa will thus be closed down from April 1, 2018.
Mail volumes' proportion of the total cargo handled at Jonkoping Airport was two-thirds in 2011, dropping to only 18 percent in 2017.
Besides postal and ad-hoc freighter operations, the airport's cargo business primarily consists of shipments by TNT, time:matters and DAN'X.
Turn-over from cargo constitutes about one-third of the airport's totals, but cargo operations are today serving only few customers during a brief period of the night leaving the airport with a full-scale security-certified cargo terminal with much excess capacity to be utilized.
The airport's former Marketing Manager till the end of 2017, Herman Larsson has been engaged to support the airport's new Marketing Manager, Henrik Alverdal, in seeking new business opportunities for Jonkoping Airport's cargo facility.