Manish Dureja, VP Marketing, JetAirways<\/p><\/div>\n

After a couple of experiments where the team initially moved cargo during the night \u2013 they realized that the saleable solution was to move cargo along with passengers in the cabin.\u00a0 However \u2013 the belly capacity could only provide 6 tonnes of additional cargo \u2013 and to be viable \u2013 they needed to move between 8 and 10 tonnes (depending on the model of the aircraft) of cargo per flight. The solution?\u00a0 \u201cCargo on seats\u201d.\u00a0 Mail and courier cargo could be moved into the cabin, to occupy empty seats, with the passengers. This created the required 8 to 10 tonnes of belly space.<\/p>\n

Internationally, there are several patents for \u201con-board\u201d cargo containers and Jet was able to source specially designed and manufactured passenger seat cargo containers.<\/p>\n

The \u2018container\u2019 meets all airworthiness, performance and\u00a0\u00a0 flammability\u00a0 requirements, has a \u2018tare\u2019 weight of 6 kgs, can accommodate 225 kgs (i.e. equal to 3 adults) of cargo, and takes 10 minutes to assemble.<\/p>\n

They are in the process of obtaining the necessary permissions from the DGCA for commercial operations.<\/p>\n

If successful, it could ensure that there will never be an empty seat on their fleet again.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

This could be the \u2018new normal\u2019 if Jet Airway\u2019s prototype of \u201cCargo on Seats\u201d reaches commercial scale. The design of the model was presented to at the Retail Leadership Survey 2013. Much has been written about India\u2019s logistical problems –\u00a0… <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[],"tags":[8],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.rai.net.in\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/174"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.rai.net.in\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.rai.net.in\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.rai.net.in\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.rai.net.in\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=174"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"http:\/\/blog.rai.net.in\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/174\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":367,"href":"http:\/\/blog.rai.net.in\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/174\/revisions\/367"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.rai.net.in\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=174"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.rai.net.in\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=174"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.rai.net.in\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=174"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}