Acceptance basis on this page
| Cargo type | Acceptance | What is needed |
|---|---|---|
| Out-of-gauge (overlength, overweight, irregular) | Per shipment · aircraft-dependent | Island feeders are mostly turboprops with tight hatch and per-piece limits; oversize usually needs wide-body belly or freighter |
What actually decides this lane
The bottleneck for Air freight of outsized cargo rarely sits in the air: it sits in acceptance. Under the parent table this shipment reads Out-of-gauge (overlength, overweight, irregular), is accepted as "Per shipment · aircraft-dependent", and needs Island feeders are mostly turboprops with tight hatch and per-piece limits; oversize usually needs wide-body belly or freighter. Settle that and the flight is the easy part.
How this shipment moves
Air freight of outsized cargo has four steps: book from the nearest Chinese city and fly, clear at the landing gateway, transfer on a domestic carrier to the outer-island airport, then truck to the factory gate. Transit stacks from these four, not from a single flight time.
How this page's basis is used
Air freight of outsized cargo maps to one row in the parent acceptance table: Out-of-gauge (overlength, overweight, irregular), acceptance basis "Per shipment · aircraft-dependent". What is needed is Island feeders are mostly turboprops with tight hatch and per-piece limits; oversize usually needs wide-body belly or freighter — read that row through and the booking stops bouncing back for missing paperwork.
The three mistakes this lane punishes hardest
- Do not apply mainline aircraft specs to a feeder for Air freight of outsized cargo — turboprop doors and piece limits are far tighter.
- Do not book Air freight of outsized cargo with incomplete papers — missing one means return, not a fix-up.
- Do not skip shock and tilt protection for Air freight of outsized cargo — air freight handles cargo many times.
Frequently asked, standard answers
Can a specific aircraft type be nominated for Air freight of outsized cargo?
Feeder types are constrained by airport conditions; the parent table accepts Air freight of outsized cargo on the basis "Per shipment · aircraft-dependent" with Island feeders are mostly turboprops with tight hatch and per-piece limits; oversize usually needs wide-body belly or freighter as the prerequisite. A type is recommended at booking and confirmed by the feeder's current schedule.
Why is transit for Air freight of outsized cargo counted in four segments?
Book from the nearest Chinese city and fly, clear at the landing gateway, transfer on a domestic carrier to the airport, then truck to the factory — four stacked segments. For Air freight of outsized cargo the Island feeders are mostly turboprops with tight hatch and per-piece limits; oversize usually needs wide-body belly or freighter also bears on it, so a single flight time does not apply.
Official sources (check them yourself)
Official sources for the "Air freight of outsized cargo" page (rates and times follow the latest notices). Figures here come verbatim from the parent acceptance-table row for Air freight of outsized cargo (class "Out-of-gauge (overlength, overweight, irregular)"); the acceptance basis is tabled above.
Next step
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