"Truck flight" is the image name for air-ground combined transportation of import and export goods, and is an extension of air transportation services. "Truck flights" can not only draw on the price advantages and mobility advantages of trucks, but also enjoy efficient and punctual air transportation services. It is a straight-through customs clearance service of "one customs declaration, one inspection, and one release". It can increase the aviation radiation area. It has the characteristics of simple procedures, convenience and speed. It can achieve the best combination of air flights and truck transportation, and can use land transportation to make up for air flights. The lack of time and capacity, thereby reducing the transportation costs of enterprises and saving enterprise customs clearance time. "Truck flight" is a popular and vivid term. It actually refers to a new form of transportation-air-land combined transport, that is, the combination of air inbound and outbound flights and truck inland transportation. It is an effective supplement to the point-to-point single air transportation method and will effectively alleviate the problem of insufficient airport capacity.

What is a truck flight?

Truck flights refer to flights with full-length air waybills, using trucks as extension tools for aircraft, using land transportation to connect to areas without airports, and using land transportation to areas without airports, so that areas without airports can directly receive and receive air import and export goods. The customs implements a straight-through customs clearance service of "one declaration, one inspection, and one release" to increase the aviation radiation area. Truck flights have the characteristics of simple, convenient and quick procedures---Source: Guangzhou Customs Truck Flight Declaration Guide

Air-land combined transport is a relatively mature intermodal transport mode among the air-cargo related multimodal transport models. In 2018, the Ministry of Transport drafted the "Operational Specifications for Air-Land Combined Transport Container Cargo Transshipment"(Draft for Comments), which defines and standardizes the definition of air-land combined transport as multimodal transport achieved using both air and road transport modes, including land operations, aviation and two ways to transfer air to land transport. At the same time, it also stipulates the basic conditions for truck flight operators for air-land combined transport container freight transportation, transport truck standards for intermodal containers, intermodal operation procedures, information provision and emergency response requirements, etc., which has played a role in guiding and standardizing the in-depth development of air-land combined transport. At present, air cargo hubs, such as Hong Kong Airport, Beijing Capital Airport, Shanghai Pudong Airport, Guangzhou Airport, Shenzhen Airport, Zhengzhou Airport, etc., distribute and distribute surrounding cargo. They have relatively mature truck flight services to support their cargo distribution at hub airports