Air Freight in the United States

Air Freight in the United States

Datamonitor's Air Freight in the United States industry profile is an essential resource for top-level data and analysis covering the air freight industry. It includes detailed data on market size and segmentation, plus textual and graphical analysis of the key trends and competitive landscape, leading companies and demographic information.

Scope

* Contains an executive summary and data on value, volume and/or segmentation

* Provides textual analysis of the industry’s recent performance and future prospects

* Incorporates in-depth five forces competitive environment analysis and scorecards

* Includes a five-year forecast of the industry

* The leading companies are profiled with supporting key financial metrics

* Supported by the key macroeconomic and demographic data affecting the market

Highlights

* Detailed information is included on market size, measured by value and/or volume

* Five forces scorecards provide an accessible yet in depth view of the market’s competitive landscape

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Market Definition

The air freight and logistics sector is defined here as consisting of revenues generated from freight and mail transportation by air. Charter flights are excluded from this analysis. Units of volume of air freight is in tonne-kms. Air freight volumes include both inbound and outbound figures in a country. Regional market values are sums of countries in that region and therefore intraregional air freight is not subtracted. Any currency conversions used in the creation of this report have been calculated using constant 2008 annual average exchange rates.

For the purpose of this report the global figure is deemed to comprise of the Americas, Asia-Pacific and Europe.

The Americas comprises Argentina, Brazil, Canada, Chile, Colombia, Mexico, Venezuela, and the US.

Europe comprises Belgium, the Czech Republic, Denmark, France, Germany, Hungary, Italy, Netherlands, Norway, Poland, Romania, Russia, Spain, Sweden, the Ukraine and the United Kingdom.

Asia-Pacific comprises Australia, China, Japan, India, Singapore, South Korea and Taiwan.

TABLE OF CONTENTS
EXECUTIVE SUMMARY 3
CHAPTER 1 Market Overview 7
1.1 Market Definition 7
1.2 Research Highlights 7
1.3 Market Analysis 8
CHAPTER 2 Market Value 9
CHAPTER 3 Market Volume 10
CHAPTER 4 Market Segmentation 11
CHAPTER 5 Five Forces Analysis 12
5.1 Summary 12
5.2 Buyer Power 13
5.3 Supplier Power 14
5.4 New Entrants 15
5.5 Substitutes 17
5.6 Rivalry 18
CHAPTER 6 Leading Companies 20
6.1 FedEx Corporation 20
6.2 United Parcel Service, Inc. 25
6.3 Northwest Airlines Corporation 28
6.4 AMR Corporation 30
CHAPTER 7 Market Forecasts 32
7.1 Market Value Forecast 32
7.2 Market Volume Forecast 33
CHAPTER 8 Macroeconomic Indicators 34
CHAPTER 9 Appendix 35
9.1 Methodology 35
9.2 Industry Associations 36
9.3 Related Datamonitor Research 36

LIST OF TABLES
Table 1: United States Air Freight Sector Value: $ billion, 2004-2008 9
Table 2: United States Air Freight Sector Volume: FTK billion, 2004-2008 10
Table 3: United States Air Freight Sector Segmentation: % Share, by Value, 2008 11
Table 4: Key Facts: FedEx Corporation 20
Table 5: Key Financials: FedEx Corporation 24
Table 6: Key Facts: United Parcel Service, Inc. 25
Table 7: Key Financials: United Parcel Service, Inc. 27
Table 8: Key Facts: Northwest Airlines Corporation 28
Table 9: Key Facts: AMR Corporation 30
Table 10: Key Financials: AMR Corporation 31
Table 11: United States Air Freight Sector Value Forecast: $ billion, 2008-2013 32
Table 12: United States Air Freight Sector Volume Forecast: FTK billion, 2008-2013 33
Table 13: United States Size of Population (million) , 2004-2008 34
Table 14: United States GDP (Constant 2000 Prices, $ billion), 2004-2008 34
Table 15: United States Inflation, 2004-2008 34