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Re:Demand for medical equipment is making air cargo fees ‘cr... by eastbayjake on Monday March 30, 2020 @02:04PM (#22730481)
The US suspended those rules on March 11:

https://thepointsguy.com/news/coronavirus-slot-restriction-s...

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Re:Demand for medical equipment is making air cargo fees ‘cr... by kube-system on Monday March 30, 2020 @02:39PM (#22730839)
And planes are mainly being parked, not reused for cargo. Probably because of the capacity and fuel price issue.
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Re:Demand for medical equipment is making air cargo fees ‘cr... by gwright on Monday March 30, 2020 @05:19PM (#22732393)
Well, if the price for cargo delivery keeps going up I would expect that it would become profitable to un-park some of those planes.
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Re:Demand for medical equipment is making air cargo fees ‘cr... by kube-system on Monday March 30, 2020 @05:34PM (#22732482)
Maybe. It sounds like the routes in demand are long haul flights, which I don't think a lot of narrow-body jets are capable of doing. Most jet airliners are narrow-bodies.
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