Air Cargo Test 3

Which of the following oil companies plans to work with Alaska Airlines in expanding the use of SAF on the west coast of the U.S.?

Shell

Which of the following considerations would make those secondary, smaller airports more attractive to cargo shippers, freight forwarders and cargo airlines?

The primary, hub airports have more severe ground delay and congestion.

Most of the large-sized freighter aircraft are converted from passenger aircraft.

True

According to Boeing's categorization method, a standard body freighter aircraft has less than _____ payload capacity.

80 tons

B757-200 freighter aircraft is an example of _______ freighter aircraft.

Standard body

Which of the following freighter aircraft is suited for serving long-haul routes with high cargo traffic demand?

B777F

Which of the following types of freighter aircraft has the highest conversion rate from passenger aircraft?

Medium wide-body.

Which of the following _______ will affect the cargo payload capacity in the belly-hold of passenger aircraft?

All of the above factors are true (number of passenger seats and load factor, weight of checked baggage, the wind condition and flight path)

Combi aircraft is getting more popular among airlines in recent years.

False

Airships will be more popular than drones to be operated by airlines in the near future.

False

The type of passenger-converted-freighter aircraft accounts for a lower percentage in the total number of large-sized freighter aircraft than that of standard-body freighter aircraft.  

True

Empire Airlines operated a daily flight using Cessna 408 SkyCourier as the FedEx feeder on the route from Ontario (ONT) to Boise (BOI) (TLH). The payload capacity of Cessna 408 SkyCourier is 2.7 metric tons, and the great circle distance between ONT and BOI is 1,062 km.  It is estimated that the revenue cargo on the ONT-BOI flight operated by Empire Airlines on March 10, 2023  is 2.4 metric tons. What is the available ton-km (ATK) of the flight from ONT to BOI on March 10, 2023? 

2867

Empire Airlines operated a daily flight using Cessna 408 SkyCourier as the FedEx feeder on the route from Ontario (ONT) to Boise (BOI) (TLH). The payload capacity of Cessna 408 SkyCourier is 2.7 metric tons, and the great circle distance between ONT and BOI is 1,062 km.  It is estimated that the revenue cargo on the ONT-BOI flight operated by Empire Airlines on March 10, 2023  is 2.4 metric tons. What is the load factor on the flight from ONT to BOI on March 10, 2023?

89%

Which of the following freighter aircraft is most suited to be used as a FedEx feeder on the route between Orlando (MCO) and Tallahassee (TLH)? 

Cessna 408 Sky Courier

Drones will become more popular than airships to be operated by airlines in the near future.

True

Since the global financial crisis (GFC) in 2008-09, more wide-body passenger aircraft than narrow-body passenger aircraft have been converted to freighter jet.  

False

Which of the following cargo operators has recently upgraded its facility in Blonie, Poland to help store and handle more health care products?

UPS

Which of the following cargo operators is involved in the fraudulent charge against the bribe and corruption behavior committed by its management?

Polar Air Cargo

Which of the following except _________ is correct about the complexity of air cargo revenue management?

The demand for air cargo services is more price driven than that for air passenger services

Which of the following are crucial for implementing price differentiation of cargo revenue \n management?

market segmentation and product differentiation

Which of the following except _________ makes revenue management crucial for the success of air cargo operator?

The capacity of air cargo operator is fixed, and highly predictable

An allotment is a short-term contract between a customer and a cargo operator to guarantee a specified amount of space on certain flights for certain days of week over a period of time.

False

The "cube out" issue is less often to occur than the "weight out" issue in the lower deck of aircraft.

False

Which of the following is true about the optimal overbooking rate level?

At the optimal overbooking rate level, the sum of expected spoilage and stock out cost is \n minimized

The payload capacity of a B747F is 100 tons. The ad hoc overbooking rate is 5%. Assume the show-up rate of cargo shipment is 0.98. Which of the following will occur?

The carrier will incur oversale cost, but not spoilage cost.

The spoilage cost will increase as the overbooking rate level increase.

False

Among the top 100 airports in the U.S. by domestic air cargo volume, mixed-purpose airports handle less than 5% of all the domestic freight by weight in 2019

False

Integrators prefer operating from secondary airports with few passenger movements and little congestion, whereas network carriers favor passenger hub locations as their main cargo hubs.

True

Of the 26 operational focal points selected by Amazon Air in the U.S., the majority of them are cargo-focused hub airports. 

False

Although cargo-focused airports in the U.S. handle a smaller amount of cargo volume than mixed-purpose airports, the cargo volume growth rate is higher at cargo-focused airports than at mixed-purpose airports during the 2010-2019 period. 

True

Which of the following are the criteria to identify a mixed-purpose airport in the U.S.? 

The annual passenger traffic is more than 300 thousand, and cargo volume is more than 20 million pounds.

In 2022,  Cincinnati/Northern Kentucky International Airport (CVG) has a total of 3,111 thousand passenger arrivals and 3,103 thousand passenger departures, and it has a total of 2,326 million pounds of cargo throughput. What is the ratio of passenger traffic per 1000 pounds of cargo at CVG in 2022? 

2\.672

Which of the following except _______ helped Rickenbacker Airport (LCK) grow its air cargo throughput during the 2009-2019 period? 

Rickenbacker Airport has operations by ultra-low-cost carrier like Allegiant Air.

Consider a typical international air cargo export flow, which of the following except _____ will happen after the arrival of flights at final destination airports? 

Shipments are packaged, labelled and prepared for transport.

Since Jan. 1, 2019, the e-AWB has become the default carriage contract for all air cargo shipments on enabled trad lanes, accounting for _____ of the total air trade worldwide

70%

While house air waybill is between _____ and a freight forwarder, master air waybill is between a freight forwarder and ________. 

an individual shipper; an airline

The issuing carrier on a House Air Waybill (HAWB) is a cargo operator.  

False

As an important shipping document, load sheet provides the detailed information about the number and weight of passengers, the weight and hold positions of baggage, freight and mail carried, known as the total traffic load. 

True

The e-freight initiative and practice helped reduce the customs processing time for international air cargo flow at many airports around the world. 

True

According to the World Bank's Logistics Performance Index (LPI) project, the U.S. is ranked as the leading country in 2018 in the aspect of customs efficiency. 

False

Which of the following is true about the comparison of inflation-adjusted cargo yield and passenger yield in the U.S. domestic air travel market over the 1990-2019 period? 

The inflation-adjusted cargo yield had increased from 1990 to 2019, while the inflation-adjusted passenger yield had decreased over this period.

In 2021, the CPI-adjusted passenger yield on the U.S. domestic routes is 8.32 cents per passenger-mile, and the PPI-adjusted cargo yield is 52.77 cents per ton-mile.  In 1993, the CPI-adjusted passenger yield is 17.67 cents per passenger-mile, and the PPI-adjusted cargo yield is 62.73 cents per ton-mile on the U.S. domestic routes. Which of the following are the results for the CPI-adjusted passenger yield index and PPI-adjusted cargo yield index in 2021, using the index of 100 in 1993 as the baseline value?  

The CPI-adjusted passenger yield index is 47, and PPI-adjusted cargo yield index is 84 in 2021.

Which of the following will help FedEx mitigate the negative impact of fuel price increase on its operating profits? 

The increase of fuel surcharge

Fuel surcharge is not considered as a component in cargo yield. 

False

Which of the following formula is correct to calculate the cargo yield per package by FedEx Express on the U.S. domestic routes? 

Annual Cargo Revenue/Annual Package Volume by FedEx Express on the U.S. domestic routes