Cross-border parcels, marketplaces and peak season
Marketplace promises are made in days, not weeks. We source dedicated freighter rotations for parcel volumes when scheduled capacity is booked out or too slow for the delivery promise.
Submit a requirement any time — no account needed · first response usually within 60 minutes · 24/7 for AOG and time-critical. Optional: business account for status tracking
In short
An e-commerce charter dedicates a freighter to cross-border parcel volumes, usually through peak season or between fulfilment hubs. The flight is planned against the destination sortation window, and restricted items in the parcel stream are screened before build-up.
Scope of service
Dedicated rotations through Singles Day, Black Friday and the Christmas peak.
Why marketplaces charter
Dedicated rotations through Singles Day, Black Friday and the Christmas peak.
Full aircraft for cross-border fulfilment between hubs.
Bulk clearance and hub handover planned with the flight, not after it.
Direct to operator
In air cargo charter it is common for a requirement to travel through several intermediaries before it reaches the aircraft operator. Each layer adds its own commission to the same flight. We work directly with operators, so the quote you see carries one commercial layer.
Typical chain
With Cargo Charter Network
The requirement is not passed sideways to other brokers who each need to earn on the same lift.
We are remunerated by the operator. Our involvement does not add a separate fee to your charter price.
Payload, dimensions, ready date and airport constraints reach the operator unchanged, instead of being relayed through several desks.
Because we source across operators ourselves, you see the realistic market for that routing rather than whatever one intermediary could reach.
Availability, pricing and acceptance always remain with the operating carrier. Where a requirement can only be served through a partner, we say so before you decide.
How we work
Cargo Charter Network does not operate aircraft and employs no flight crew. Every flight is performed by a licensed operator we source, compare and coordinate.
Operators are checked for AOC validity, insurance, aircraft configuration and route authority for the specific mission before a price is put in front of you.
The same person handles sourcing, contract, permits, handling and flight watch, so there is no handover gap between quote and arrival.
We do not quote capacity that has not been checked with an operator, and we do not confirm acceptance of restricted commodities before the operator has accepted them in writing.
What we need to quote
Operational detail
The value of the flight is decided by whether the load enters the sorter on time. Offload and hub handover are planned against that window, not against block time.
Parcel streams hide batteries, aerosols and magnets. A written screening statement protects the flight from a refusal at build-up.
Committed rotations booked before peak season price materially below spot capacity in the same weeks.
Typical requirements
Anonymised examples of requirements evaluated by the desk. Not a record of completed flights.
Parcel capacity enquiry
Frequency and the destination sortation time shape the rotation more than the flight distance.
Peak rotations, marketplace restocking and returns flows between fulfilment hubs.
How to submit a requirement
You send the requirement straight to the desk — no account needed. We work it against operators immediately and come back with compared options.
Route, ready date, weight, dimensions, commodity and handling notes — no account, a few minutes.
Availability, payload and route permissions are checked directly with operators.
Compared operator options with payload, slots, handling and timeline — one accountable contact.
For status tracking and document exchange in the portal. Account verification is usually the same business day.
No supplier identities, margins or internal sourcing data are shared. Requirement data is treated confidentially.
Aircraft
Availability is subject to route, payload, permits and operator acceptance.
Capacity structures
The same requirement can be bought as a whole aircraft, as a share of one, as reserved space on a running rotation or as leased capacity with crew. The structure decides the price far more than the aircraft type does.
01
One shipment fills a deck, or timing and commodity rule out sharing
You control the schedule, the loading plan and the routing.
02
Volume fills part of a deck and the ready date tolerates consolidation
Cost is shared across shippers inside one build-up window.
03
Recurring volume on a lane that already has a rotation
A fixed allocation per flight, committed for a defined period.
04
Capacity is needed for weeks or months, not for one flight
Aircraft, crew, maintenance and insurance leased against guaranteed block hours.
Fuel, ATC, airport charges, handling and de-icing sit outside an ACMI rate. On charter they are inside the quoted price unless stated otherwise.
Around the flight
A charter is only as good as the ground scope attached to it. These items are quoted and coordinated as part of the mission, not left to the shipper.
Export and import entries, transit procedures, temporary export for repair, preferential origin papers and the broker interface at both ends.
Pallet and container build-up, load spreading, lashing plans and guidance where packaging would fail an operator acceptance check.
Pre-carriage, on-carriage, air-ride equipment where needed, low-loaders and permitted road routes for outsize crates.
Overflight, landing and cabotage permits, airport slots, night curfew handling and diplomatic clearances where they apply.
Cool storage, active or passive units, cool dollies, data loggers and shock or tilt indicators read at each handover.
Loading supervision, attendants for live cargo, security escorts and sealed handovers for high-value consignments.
Parcel rotations
Parcel charters are planned from the destination sorter backwards, which usually forces night departures and tight offload slots.
Regions handled most often
A rotation that lands after the sorter closes has no operational value, so the offload slot is agreed before the schedule is fixed.
Parcel freight background
Parcel freight is low density and highly volumetric. Bag or loose-load build-up, container mix and the sortation interface at destination decide how much of the aircraft is genuinely usable.
We plan build-up and offload against the hub sortation window so parcels enter the sorter rather than queue on the ramp.
Peak season capacity disappears before the promotional calendar is even published. A committed rotation booked in advance is materially cheaper than spot charter in November.
For lanes with unstable volume, a mix of committed rotations and part-charter flex keeps the cost per parcel under control.
Questions
Answers from daily desk work: payload, ready date, permits and cost drivers.
See all questionsYes, once daily volumes fill a narrow-body deck. Below that, part charter or block space on an existing rotation usually fits better.
Through bulk or consolidated clearance procedures at the destination hub, agreed with the broker before the first flight.
Only when correctly declared and accepted by the operator. Undeclared batteries in parcel streams are the most common cause of a load being refused.
Committed rotations for Q4 are typically fixed in the summer. Spot capacity in November is available but priced at peak level.
Yes. Reverse-flow consolidation can be added to an existing rotation so the aircraft does not fly back empty.
Talk to the desk
AOG and time-critical requirements can be raised by phone or email at any time — no account required.
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Send the requirement and the desk will come back with sourced options, or call now if it is time-critical.
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