Sustainability and Air Freight Transportation: Lessons from the Global Pandemic

The COVID-19 crisis has transformed the delivery of services and goods by public, private, non-governmental organizations (NGOs), with one largest impacts being in air transport systems. This paper focuses on related opportunities challenges within freight management, exploring sustainability light recent, heavy human economic costs across world. There is, resulting process recovery, potential to create changes airline industry a number private public partnerships that will improve long-term environmental, social, stability. also describes impact current environment cargo operations include role significantly reduced schedules overall capacity. It considers government providing infrastructure for collaboration between sectors, addressing goals sustainability, efficiency, effectiveness, citizen responsiveness. NGOs provide voice community groups ways governments corporations may not. Efficient markets link producers at various stages consumers through global local supply chains. Integrating key concepts from sustainable development logistics, this explores short-run long-run planning required each three sectors tackle immediate shortfalls transportation air. then investigates urgent but longer-term environmental issues tied transport, such as climate change, pollution, nonrenewable nature fossil fuels. Many infrastructural offer solutions administration. With tremendous other services, carefully constructed have benefits industries. As tragedies inevitably shake foundations organizational systems all offers recommendations advancing more efficient minimize negative development.