The International Air Transport Association (IATA) reports that cargo tonne-kilometers (CTKs) expanded 8.2 % year-on-year in November 2024, the sixteenth straight month of growth—evidence that air freight shipping retains its crown as the go-to mode when time truly is money.
Yet the market’s very success produces bottlenecks: booked-out freighter aircraft, congested hubs, and a shrinking margin for error when customers expect same day delivery. Enter the air charter broker...by pairing deep aviation expertise with a network of certified operators, brokers can unlock aircraft charter capacity—often in hours—and dovetail it neatly into a shipper’s existing distribution model. For logistics professionals juggling volatile demand, an air charter broker is less a “middleman” than an on-call strategic partner.