Advantages of using air (flight) for your shipping requirements

As a same day courier provider, Rock Solid Deliveries know all about the different methods for shipping goods, parcels, packages and cargo. Depending on what your goods contain, using different shipping methods can often be of greater advantage as one method can be better than the other. In our latest blog post article, we’ll consider the positive benefits of using air and flight for your shipping requirements, and why these specific services may be of use.

Speed

The most obvious advantage of using air travel for parcels has to be speed. Aircraft can cover vast areas in seemingly no time compared to cars, trains, lorries, sea, or even people delivering on foot.

Delays kept to a minimum

Air transport often has strict arrival and departure times which are kept to as much as possible (we all know that delays still can happen though.) These strict time limits have a positive impact on how long parcels can take to arrive at their destination, because it means they are less likely to be held up by transportation problems.

The world really is the oyster

There is generally no location on earth that is not covered by some airport or cargo base close by. Aircraft can often reach more remote locations and other parts of the world that some other shipping and delivery methods simply can’t.

Potential for lower costs

Whilst sending items by air can be more expensive, this has to be offset against the fact that this higher cost is shared with other people who are also sending air parcel / freight items. The collective effect of that is that it can lower the cost of sending, and therefore air transportation made not be as expensive as initially thought.

Safety and security

Sometimes parcels can go missing, get lost or damaged. This is more likely to happen in other mediums of delivery, but rarely with air travel. Airports by their very nature are tightly secure places, where processes and procedures are followed very closely. This can help keep items much safer, and can be especially important for some certain items being sent.

Tracking

Due to the quick speed and prompt following of timetables as mentioned above, this can mean that tracking and keeping up to date with a parcel sent by air is much easier than some other methods. It makes it more likely that regular updates will be received which can also act as putting the customer at ease by way of progress reports.

Looking to send air cargo? We have a dedicated air cargo charter page, which provides a wealth of information on this subject. You can also view our freight page, which has extra details on this related area.