Aircraft Charter for Freight Forwarders

This page exists for one reason: forwarders send us charter requirements every week, and the fastest way to handle them is to be explicit about the relationship. Aviall is an aircraft charter specialist. We source, price and coordinate the aircraft. The freight remains yours: your customer relationship, your commercial terms with them, your documentation, your customs brokerage, your trucking, your invoice.

We do not solicit your customer, we do not need to appear in front of them, and we can quote in a form you can present under your own name. If it helps to keep our identity behind the scenes on a competitive bid, tell us in the RFQ and we will work that way.

• You own the client, the pricing to them and the shipment file
• We own aircraft sourcing, operator vetting, permits, slots and flight coordination
• Quotes structured so you can present them commercially
• Neutral handling on competitive tenders where requested

Professional buyers should not have to retype a requirement that already exists in an email. You can paste the client's enquiry straight into our RFQ page, attach the packing list or manifest, or email it to Charters@Aviall.com.au. Whichever route you take reaches the same 24/7 charter desk.

For pricing we generally need routing, ready date and time window, total weight, total volume, piece dimensions with the largest and heaviest items called out, cargo description, any dangerous goods classification, and whether the cargo is palletised or loose. Anything missing we will ask for once, not three times.

• Paste the client email or RFQ text, no reformatting required
• Upload packing lists, manifests, drawings, MSDS or DG declarations
• Email the requirement directly to the charter desk
• Use the cargo aircraft finder first if you want an indicative type before quoting

Charter is bought when scheduled capacity fails the shipment, on size, on timing, on control or on availability. In practice the recurring patterns are consistent.

• Urgent and time-critical freight where a scheduled routing cannot hold the date
• Full freighter charter for a complete tranche of equipment or a single large consignment
• Part charter or block space where the cargo does not fill an aircraft but still needs controlled capacity
• Oversized and project cargo requiring nose or ramp loading and engineering review
• AOG movements where an aircraft is grounded and a part has to move now
• Peak season and capacity crunch, including e-commerce surges and pre-shutdown pushes
• Data centre, GPU and networking hardware deployments into Australian sites
• Mining spares and shutdown-critical equipment to regional and remote destinations
• Perishables and pharmaceutical freight with temperature and time constraints
• High-value technology and secure freight requiring controlled handling

On receipt we read the cargo before we read the route. Piece dimensions and weights determine which aircraft can physically take the load, and that decision drives everything downstream, origin airport suitability, ground equipment, whether a nose-loading type is required, and whether payload has to be traded for fuel on a long sector.

You then get a shortlist of types genuinely available for your dates with indicative pricing, not a single take-it-or-leave-it option. Once you choose, we handle operator contracting, permits, slots, curfew constraints and ramp handling, and report progress on a schedule that suits how you update your client.

• Cargo review and loadability assessment against candidate types
• Shortlisted aircraft options with indicative pricing and realistic timings
• Operator vetting, contracting, overflight and landing permits, slots
• Loading supervision requirements, special equipment and ramp coordination
• Movement updates you can pass straight to your customer

Our strength is charter involving Australia and the wider Asia-Pacific: inbound from North Asia, Southeast Asia, Europe and North America, outbound to Asia and the Pacific, and domestic movements into regional and mining destinations. That includes the practical constraints that catch out charter planned from the other side of the world, the Sydney night curfew, out-of-hours handling at secondary ports, pavement strength limits at regional fields, and the long domestic legs that can quietly cost more than the international sector.

Where a movement sits outside our strongest geography we will say so rather than quote weakly. A charter specialist that tells you what it is not the best answer for is more useful to you than one that never does.

We will not claim to own or control aircraft. Charter capacity is contracted from operators, availability moves hourly, and any broker promising a guaranteed specific tail on a future date is describing something they cannot control. We will tell you what is realistically obtainable, what the risk is, and what the alternatives are if the first option disappears.

We will also not quote a rate per kilogram on a charter as if it were scheduled freight. Charter is priced on the aircraft's cost for the whole task, including positioning, and pretending otherwise sets up a conversation that falls apart later.