Air cargo being loaded into a freight aircraft on the tarmac
Service No. 01  ·  Air Freight

When it has to be there tomorrow.

Next-flight-out, consolidated and chartered air cargo through more than 40 US gateways. Booked, cleared and delivered by one team — with a scan at every touchpoint and a coordinator who calls you before you have to call us.

Transit
1–4 days
US gateways
40+
Booking cut-off
4:00 PM local
Overview

The fastest way we move anything.

Air freight is what you book when the cost of being late is higher than the cost of flying. Our job is to make sure that decision actually buys you the speed you paid for.

We hold contracted space with commercial carriers out of Memphis, Chicago, Los Angeles, Newark, Dallas and Miami, plus block-space agreements that keep capacity available in peak season when spot rates spike and pallets get bumped. When no commercial deck will take the load, we charter.

Every air shipment is booked, tendered, cleared and delivered by United — not handed to a forwarder. Our licensed brokers file the entry, our own trucks run the pickup and the final mile, and one reference number follows the freight from your dock to theirs.

  • Next-flight-out on same-day tender
  • Consolidated economy air, 3–4 days
  • Full and part charter capacity
  • Temperature-controlled and cold chain
  • Dangerous goods, IATA certified
  • AOG and critical spares desk
Air cargo pallets being loaded into the hold of a freighter aircraft
1–4 Days door to door
What's included

Five things that come standard.

Not a premium tier, not an add-on line on the invoice. Every air shipment gets all of it.

01

Speed you can schedule

Next-flight-out tenders leave the same day if we have them by 4:00 PM local. Economy air runs 3–4 days on a fixed weekly schedule you can plan production around.

02

Global gateway network

40+ US departure gateways and contracted space into 120 countries. Block-space agreements mean your pallet doesn't get bumped when peak season hits.

03

Customs handled in-house

Licensed brokers on staff file your entry, HTS classification and ISF directly. Duties quoted before departure, so nothing surprises you at arrival.

04

Scan-level tracking

Scanned at pickup, tender, wheels-up, arrival, clearance and delivery. Follow it on a live map, or let email and SMS alerts push each scan to you.

05

All-risk cargo insurance

Coverage up to $250,000 per shipment, quoted upfront and settled in-house within 15 business days. No third-party adjuster, no claim-form maze.

The route

Booking to doorstep, in four moves.

Here's exactly what happens after you send us the details — and who owns each leg.

Step01

Book it

Send weight, dimensions, commodity and both endpoints. We quote the fastest routing and the cheapest routing together, so you choose with real numbers.

Quote in 1 business hour
Step02

Collect & tender

Our truck collects, our warehouse builds and weighs the pallet, and we tender it airside with the air waybill and customs paperwork already filed.

Same day before 4:00 PM
Step03

In the air

Wheels-up, in-transit and arrival scans hit your tracking page automatically. If a flight rolls, your coordinator calls you before the board updates.

Live scan alerts
Step04

Cleared & delivered

Our brokers clear it on arrival, our final-mile truck runs it to the door, and signed proof of delivery lands in your inbox the same day.

POD emailed same day
Use cases

When air is the right call.

Air costs more per pound than every other mode we run. These are the three situations where it still comes out cheaper.

Urgent air cargo being loaded for an express departure Time critical

Time-critical freight

A production line stopped, a store set that has to land before a promo, a replacement part holding up a job site. When downtime costs more per hour than the freight bill, air pays for itself before it lands.

  • Manufacturing line-down spares
  • AOG aviation parts
  • Retail launch and promo sets
  • Missed-vessel container recovery
High-value cargo being secured in a bonded air freight warehouse High value

High-value shipments

Fewer touches, fewer days in transit and fewer places to go missing. For cargo where the insured value dwarfs the freight rate, air is the lower-risk move as much as the faster one.

  • Electronics and semiconductors
  • Medical devices and instruments
  • Precision tooling and prototypes
  • Coverage to $250,000 per shipment
Temperature-controlled cargo pallets staged for air freight Perishable

Perishable & cold chain

Product with a clock on it — measured in days, not weeks. We move it in temperature-controlled ULDs with active monitoring, and hand it to a refrigerated truck on the other side.

  • Pharmaceuticals and vaccines
  • Fresh seafood and produce
  • Cut flowers and nursery stock
  • Reefer truck on the final mile
Departures board

Air freight questions, answered.

The four we get asked most often. Anything else, the air desk picks up 24 hours a day.

Domestic next-flight-out is typically next business day door to door if we have the tender before 4:00 PM local. Consolidated domestic air runs 2–3 days.

International moves 1–4 days depending on the lane and whether customs pulls the entry for exam. Your quote states the committed window for your specific routing — not a marketing average.

Whichever is greater. Airlines charge on chargeable weight — the higher of actual weight and volumetric weight, calculated from the dimensions of the built pallet.

Light, bulky freight almost always prices on volume. We measure and weigh at our warehouse before tendering, and if the built pallet comes in under the quoted figure, your invoice drops to match.

Plenty moves that people assume can't — lithium batteries, aerosols, paints, dry ice and most Class 3 and Class 9 goods all fly under IATA dangerous goods rules with correct packing, marking and declarations. Our team is IATA DG certified and prepares the paperwork.

Genuinely restricted items are the short list: explosives, certain oxidizers and infectious substances above defined thresholds. Send us the commodity and safety data sheet and we'll confirm before you commit.

Your coordinator calls you — before the tracking page updates and before you notice. We rebook on the next available deck, and if the original commitment can't be met we tell you what the new one is in the same call.

Block-space agreements on our core lanes exist specifically to keep this rare. On a guaranteed service that we miss, the freight charge is credited back with no claim form.

Freight aircraft being loaded via the cargo ramp at dusk
Air freight

Get an air freight quote in one business hour.

Send weight, dimensions, commodity and both endpoints. We'll price the fastest routing and the cheapest routing side by side, with duties and fees included — so you can pick with real numbers instead of a range.

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