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Mar 24, 2020 | 10:17 pm

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UA is suspending TPE for April. I certainly BR keeps some North America routes going. https://hub.united.com/2020-03-17-un...645516655.html

Do they lose money if they fly an empty passenger 777 full of belly cargo TPAC?

Here is an article about cargo: https://udn.com/news/story/120974/4440932

It says now that factories on Mainland China are starting and playing catch-up, there is a huge demand on cargo. It says CI and BR are letting cargo forwarders charter their planes.

I don't understand the logic the article is describing since it keeps saying TPE-SHA but Mainland factories need to export...

It does say this for TPE-SHA...with the current pricing (went from NT$18 -> NT$60 per KG):

航空業者不諱言，現在載貨比載客有利，以777機型為例，座位最少有320多個，但往返台北上海的旅客僅個位數，若改以777機型機腹載貨，滿載上看40噸，單趟運價上看240萬元，基本上等同載客率九成以上。

777 passenger jet with 40 tons of cargo makes NT$2.4M "single trip" (whatever that means) which is like having a passenger load factor of 90+%.

It says BR has 5 cargo planes and CI has 18 - 1 (leased out) (bur article is about using passenger jets for cargo).

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