Monday, March 17, 2014

Topic 12 (free topic) : Advantages and Disadvantages for Air Transportation

Air transportation is transportation by air. Besides that, the goods and passengers can be transported from one place to another by means of planes, helicopters and other flying machines. Air transportation has been developing at a very quick pace since the beginning of the 20th Century. Nowadays, almost every one can fly. Most of companies use the transportation because the transportation can manage the inventory and reduce the cost and the time for one shipment of the goods and services. The company can get the good customer services and the product can get a lot of customer demand. The transport of goods through airways is costly and therefore it is designated to carry costly goods of small quantity. 

They have advantages for use the air transportation is one of the biggest advantages to air transport is speed because the fastest mode of transport and therefore suitable carriage of goods over a long distance requiring less time. There is no substitute for air transport when the transport of goods is required urgently. Second, security and high safety is the arrival of product in the same condition they were in when to transfer to the carrier. Third, punctuality is the goods can transit based on the time and the air transportation can provides comfortable, efficient and quick transport service. It is regarded as best mode of transport for transporting perishable goods.Disadvantages for the air transportation are high costs. 

Air transportation is high cost between other modes of transportation. Second, the air transportation not provides door to door services. The product can get the high risk and can get the damage because maybe the customer can get wrong condition. Third, high maintenance because requires trained, experienced and skilled personnel which involves a substantial investment. The air transportation is controlled by weather condition. It is seriously affected by adverse weather conditions. Snow and heavy rain weather may cause cancellation of some flights. The transportation is most risky between other modes of transport because a minor accident may put a substantial loss to the goods, passengers and the crew. The chances of accidents are greater in comparison to other modes of transport.

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