By Greg Waldron2021-03-11T09:29:00+00:00
Recent financial results from Asia-Pacific airlines highlight how the disappearance of bellyhold space has given a massive boost to cargo yields.
Amid the Coronavirus pandemic, Asia-Pacific airline financials make for gloomy reading. They are rife with massive losses, collapsing revenue, layoffs, and the retirements of aircraft that still had years of useful service ahead of them.
Source: Korean Air
A Korean Air 777F in 2019
The only bright spot is air cargo, with freight units at virtually all the region’s top carriers enjoying record performances. Sharply higher cargo yields underpin this performance, because 2020’s actual freight capacity and freight carried is down for most carriers.
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Photo - Lieutenant Hudson Fysh of No. 1 Squadron AFC, standing with his Nieuport Scout aircraft P00342.001
His grandfather helped William Booth found the Salvation Army and Hudson Taylor the famous China Inland Mission. His mother Mary spent time working as a missionary in China with Hudson Taylor and with the Rev George Brown in Papua New Guinea.
With such a Christian heritage it would come as no surprise when Frederick and Mary Fysh’s first son was born, he was christened Hudson after the very well-known missionary pioneer to China, Hudson Taylor.
Hudson was born in 1895 at Launceston, Tasmania, the oldest of five siblings: Hudson, Henry, Margaret, Mary and Graham. His childhood was marred by the failure of his parents marriage and his father s business. Originally staying with his father, he ran away so often that eventually he was able to stay with his mother. In spite of this dysfunctional start to life he became Sir Hudson Fysh, founder of the Australian airline QAN
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