Collections, hanging garments and replenishment
A collection that lands late is discounted. We source aircraft for season drops, hanging garment loads and mid-season replenishment where scheduled capacity is already sold out.
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
A fashion charter carries a collection drop, hanging garments or replenishment stock as a full or part aircraft. Because apparel is light and bulky, the aircraft is chosen on cubic metres and hanger rails, and the flight is timed against the store rollout date.
Scope of service
Whole-aircraft capacity aligned to the store rollout date.
Why brands charter a drop
Whole-aircraft capacity aligned to the store rollout date.
GOH build-up and loading equipment confirmed before the aircraft is booked.
Part-charter space on running lanes for repeat sizes and bestsellers.
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We do not quote capacity that has not been checked with an operator, and we do not confirm acceptance of restricted commodities before the operator has accepted them in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
Hanging garment loads depend on rail-fitted containers or GOH kits being physically present at the loading station. That check happens before we quote a departure.
Most fashion charters exist because production slipped. We build the plan around the confirmed ready hour and keep one alternative station in reserve.
Preferential origin documents travel with the goods. A missing certificate at destination costs more than the flight it delayed.
Typical requirements
Anonymised examples of requirements evaluated by the desk. Not a record of completed flights.
Collection freight enquiry
Cartons or hanging garments changes the container plan completely, so start there.
Season drops, GOH loads and replenishment across the main sourcing corridors.
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.
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One shipment fills a deck, or timing and commodity rule out sharing
You control the schedule, the loading plan and the routing.
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Volume fills part of a deck and the ready date tolerates consolidation
Cost is shared across shippers inside one build-up window.
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Recurring volume on a lane that already has a rotation
A fixed allocation per flight, committed for a defined period.
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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.
Sourcing corridors
Apparel charters cluster on the corridors between production hubs and retail markets, tightly bound to drop dates.
Regions handled most often
Rail metres, carton height and creasing tolerance decide the container mix long before tonnage enters the calculation.
Apparel freight background
Apparel is one of the lightest commodities in the freighter market. A wide-body can reach its volumetric limit at a fraction of its structural payload, so the quotation is built on cubic metres, carton dimensions and hanger rails.
Garment-on-hanger loads need rail-equipped ULDs or purpose-built GOH kits. Availability of that equipment at the origin station is checked before any departure time is confirmed.
Production clusters in South and Southeast Asia, Turkey and North Africa feed European and North American retail. Late fabric approvals compress the transport window at exactly the moment airline capacity peaks.
For repeating seasons we hold a lane plan with the same stations, so the next drop can be triggered from an existing structure rather than rebuilt from scratch.
Questions
Answers from daily desk work: payload, ready date, permits and cost drivers.
See all questionsYes, using rail-fitted ULDs or GOH kits. The equipment has to exist at the loading station, which is confirmed as part of the aircraft check.
Cartons of clothing are light and bulky. The aircraft fills up before it reaches its weight limit, so the cost driver is occupied cubic space.
Once the ready date is fixed, capacity can usually be sourced within a week. Peak season before Chinese New Year and the autumn drop should be planned earlier.
Yes, provided the customs treatment for temporary imports is declared separately from the commercial goods.
Yes. Weekly or fortnightly rotations across a drop period usually price better than repeated single charters.
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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