Is it possible to book a flight for just-luggage / contract airline to ship by air?
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Sort of, but the answer is more complex than a simple yes or no.
It is possible to have cargo shipped by air not through a full-service, door-to-door shipping company. However:
- Not all passenger airlines offer cargo services.
- Some airlines are cargo-only (e.g. CargoLux), and some make certain routes only for cargo rather than passengers (e.g. Air Malta can fly cargo, but not people, from AMS to TLV).
- Some airlines (may) offer such services directly, while some only work through certain agents, or more "bare-bones" shipping companies (e.g. LFS).
- It's difficult to figure out exactly which carriers and shipping companies/agents are available for you to employ, as well as what the range of prices is - there are no fare aggregators for example. It is thus difficult to tell whether you've gotten "a good offer" or not.
- Though you can expect this to be cheaper than end-to-end delivery, the price quotes may not include additional fees along the way (e.g. customs, ground services bogus charges) and the cost of transporting your cargo to and from the endpoint storage facilities.
Perhaps more importantly - you can't "book a flight" for your cargo. You can submit some cargo to be shipped, and it will be delivered at the earliest possible time, or perhaps the earliest convenient time, for the airline(s) involved, depending on the volume, weight and possibly other parameters. At best you'll receive a range of dates/hours for expected delivery.
Most of the examples are based on what I ended up doing for shipping my personal affects from Amsterdam to Haifa.
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Of course this is possible!! It's called airfreight carriers. Most good airlines offer it. For example, Air France does. Theirs is called 'Air France Cargo' and you can book it from the Netherlands here and read about the general conditions here. Their company motto is "freight made personal", so you know it's exactly what you are looking for!!
I had to use Southwest Airlines Cargo once, when I lost my car keys at the beach in Louisiana. My friends in Texas put my spare keys on the next flight to New Orleans for $50 flat rate. Saved my life.
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