AirCnC - The Platform to connect crisis demand for cargo with available aviation capacity

在2019冠状病毒病大流行期间，货运和货运航班是航空部门为数不多的运营和创收领域之一。从历史上看，货运和货运的投资一直低于客运，但现在却成为了多家行业运营商支撑商业地位的努力重点。许多行业的供应链已经中断，出现了新的物流需求，特别是医疗设备和个人防护设备的关键供应品的流动。目前，航空公司还没有有效的方法将现有的运力与急需运输货物的组织联系起来。航空公司和个别机构之间正在单方面作出安排——这种做法效率低下，规模也不好。通过与民航局和整个端到端航空货运供应链的广泛利益相关者密切合作，我们将重点了解该行业是如何受到Covid-19的影响的，了解根本原因，并制定一套系统性变革建议，以提供更有效的应对未来高峰或类似危机情况的措施，并与行业合作开始实施。各国将以不同的速度恢复，乘客数量可能会在一段时间内下降，但对供应品（包括样品和时间关键型设备）的需求将在几个月内保持高位，未来的高峰可能会导致以前的情况重演。我们意识到航空对环境的影响，这个项目的重点是效率：更好地利用现有航班的闲置产能，而不是简单地刺激额外的飞机起降。我们的建议还将提供长期的去碳化和噪音污染效益，因为该项目的重点是通过利用“浪费的空间”来提高目前运营的航班的效率。飞机交通的高使用率也可能导致道路货物减少，从而带来污染和拥堵的好处。

During the Covid-19 pandemic, cargo and freight flights are amongst the few areas operating and generating revenue for the aviation sector. Cargo and freight have historically had less investment than passenger air travel but are now the focus of efforts to shore up commercial positions of multiple industry operators. Supply chains have been disrupted in many industries and new logistics requirements have emerged, notably including movements of critical supplies of medical equipment and personal protection equipment.There is currently no efficient way for airlines to connect available capacity with organisations urgently needing to transport goods. Arrangements are being made unilaterally between airlines and individual organisations – an approach which is inefficient and scales poorly. By working closely with the Civil Aviation Authority and a broad range of stakeholders across the end to end Air Cargo supply chain we will focus on learning how the industry was impacted by Covid-19, understand the root causes and develop a set of recommendations for systemic change to provide a more effective robust to future spikes or similar crisis situations and the working with the industry to start the implementation. Countries will recover at different rates and passenger numbers may be down for some time, but demand for supplies, including samples and time-critical equipment, will remain high for months and future spike will likely result in repeats of previous situations We are aware of the impact aviation has on the environment and this project is focused on efficiency: better utilising spare capacity on existing flights rather than simply stimulating additional aircraft movements. Our recommendations will also provide a long term de-carbonisation and noise pollution benefit as the focus of the project is on increasing the efficiency of flights currently operating by utilising ‘wasted space’. High utilisation aircraft traffic may also lead to a reduction in road cargo with consequent pollution and congestion benefits.