In the freight forwarding business, there’s a situation like this.

When handling charter flight operations, a freight forwarder should pay attention to various factors such as aviation fuel and its price fluctuations. However, many of their peers lack sufficient awareness of these. Even those who have arranged charter flights before are no exception.

Take one instance. A client wanted to book 5 charter flights from Shenzhen to Riyadh, Saudi Arabia. Someone gave a quotation of 1.8 million without detailed calculations. Only after asking the airline did they learn that the client expected it to be 1.7 million.

In fact, many don’t carefully consider the flight hours, block times from the departure airport to the destination airport, nor do they know the hourly payment to the airline for different aircraft models. After all, many don’t have a professional team for such precise calculations.