Crazy Secret Cargo: Guess What’s Flying Under You?

For the right price, airlines will fly almost anything! Have you enjoyed an in-flight movie unknowingly sitting a few feet above a live alligator or a dead body? Check out this infographic brought to you by Schumacher Cargo, the cargo and international moving specialists.
Proportion of all cargo entering US (from the United Kingdom to Sweden, China and other countries) in 2010 that flew via passenger jet = one third.
Amount of cargo volume on trans-pacific passenger flights in 2013 – 9.4 million cubic meters (that’s 3,760 swimming pools of cargo being moved each year)
Hold volume of an Airbus A380, the big daddy of all passenger jets – 184 m³ (that’s roughly two semi trucks)
Yearly revenue for US airlines from cargo on passenger planes = $4.7 billion
Profit margin on Delta’s cargo business = 50%