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Apple Has Increased Use of Cargo Ships and Private Jets to Minimize Shipping Delays Amid Pandemic
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What Apple is using isn’t small or even mid-sized passenger-based private jets, but rather full sized large and jumbo jets meant specifically for transporting goods, not people. I know several companies who leased cargo jets back when the pandemic started significantly effecting cargo shipping on commercial passenger flights, because it was cheaper and faster to control the movement of goods from Asia to both North America and Europe. I wouldn’t say it’s worse for the environment, but rather just changing shipping via UPS or FedEx on their fleet of cargo jets for using your own leased / rented jets.
Well, yes. But it's gonna be impossible to find suppliers for every component they need in the US. And even then, they still would have to fly iPhones from the US to the rest of the world. The only really environment friendly way is to produce the products in the general geographic region where they are sold.
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The cost gets added to the price of the iPhone. For early adopters, it's a price they're willing to pay. Win-win.
For a guy who's not filthy rich or with misplace priorities, I can wait.
For a guy who's not filthy rich or with misplace priorities, I can wait.
Apple taking climate change super seriously, or as seriously as they apply their humanitarian talking points to the suffering of the Uyghurs at the hands of China.
That's why I said SOME. It's criminal that the US is 100% dependent on other countries for things as basic as semiconductors, etc.
A lot of us knew it was always about the money. Only the most gullible think that Apple does anything for the sole reason of being environmentally friendly.
If Apple weren’t making consumer hostile decisions in the name of margin while virtue signaling about the environment, nobody would care about this article. Yet here we are.
I definitely felt something unorthodox going on with my M1 MacBook Air order: I ordered it on like January 4, and there was absolutely no update on it for two weeks until, suddenly, it escalated all the way to "shipped" and then arrived the day after it was "shipped"
The Information's Wayne Ma today shared an overview of the "unorthodox and costly steps" that Apple has taken to avoid product shipping delays amid the pandemic, including the increased use of container ships, private jet charters, and more.
The report claims that Apple began shipping some AirPods by sea for the first time last year:Apple has occasionally faced some issues with shipping products by sea rather than air. In late November, for example, the report claims that a large container ship headed from China to California tipped over, spilling around 1,800 of its containers into the ocean, and at least one of those containers was holding Beats headphones.
Apple also chartered more than 200 private jets to ship devices in 2020, a single-year record for the company, according to the report:To further speed up deliveries, the report claims that Apple has accelerated a plan to use its retail stores across the United States and Canada as "small distribution centers," allowing Apple's courier partners like FedEx and UPS to collect products from an Apple retail store and deliver them to customers within close proximity of the store. The plan was first reported by Bloomberg's Mark Gurman in October.
All in all, most Apple products took only a few days longer than average to be delivered in 2020, according to a source cited in the report.
Article Link: Apple Has Increased Use of Cargo Ships and Private Jets to Minimize Shipping Delays Amid Pandemic
I think it is great that Apple is doing what it can logistically to try and meet the needs of customers in a timely manner.
I would not be surprised that Apple got their hands on every transpacific air cargo flight possible to deliver the iPhone 12 models to customers in North America. That's why starting in the third week of September 2020, cargo planes transiting through Anchorage International Airport to the USA were often full loaded with iPhone 12 models.
I literally, like actually, scrolled back up to the photo, and laughed aloud. Thank you sir for this.
You do know that it's possible to charter any size airplane for a private flight right?
The ignorance of some people is astounding.
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Yes, they'd go up.
So you could pay an honest price for something made by your neighbors, or you can continue to benefit from underpaid/slave labor and parts made in a place whose environmental regulations are a pale shadow of what we have here in the US or in Europe.
I do now and I corrected myself later. The blindness of some people is astounding!
You do know that it's possible to charter any size airplane for a private flight right?
The ignorance of some people is astounding.
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"unorthodox and costly steps" ?
There is nothing unorthodox and costly about it. iPhone Demand greatly exceeded expectations, and DHL / Fedex dont have planes sitting around waiting for Apple's product to arrive. They are all pre booked many months ahead. So they have to use Chartered planes.
Container Ship tripping over is extremely rare. But there are insurance so it isn't a lost. ( As it would imply to most reader without clearly stating it ).
There is nothing unorthodox and costly about it. iPhone Demand greatly exceeded expectations, and DHL / Fedex dont have planes sitting around waiting for Apple's product to arrive. They are all pre booked many months ahead. So they have to use Chartered planes.
Container Ship tripping over is extremely rare. But there are insurance so it isn't a lost. ( As it would imply to most reader without clearly stating it ).
I patiently waded through all the regurgitated “correction” comments and through it all I came across something exceptionally rare: Someone admitted they were wrong on the internet. What’s more, that person learned from it. I love these small rays of hope from humanity. Keep being you. Wish it would rub off on the 99.9% of others.Ah, didn't know that. In that case its all fine.
While a lot of cargo is transported in the cargo holds of passenger planes, there are plenty of dedicated cargo aircraft in regular use. In 2015, 43% of all cargo capacity was in freighter aircraft and 57% in the cargo holds of passenger aircraft. I have never seen those cargo aircraft been referred to as 'private jets'.
If anything, it would seem that renting standard passenger aircraft from airlines that had been grounded by the lack of demand would provide a more cost-effective solution than private (passenger) jets.