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...world's largest poultry firms. Every 24 hours it ships as many as 50,000 day-old chicks to clients around the globe, some of them in the U.S. Newborn chicks can live for no more than three days without feeding, which is prohibitively expensive during transport. Thus air freight is essential for Shaver's business. Says a company official: "For the moment we are managing, but if U.S. flights halt, that could start backing up Canadian flights, and we would be in trouble...
Another business anxiously watching the strike is health-care services, which in recent years has become more and more dependent on air transport. The Greater New York Blood Program, the largest such nonprofit blood bank in the world, now receives nearly one-third of its daily blood needs on overnight flights from suppliers in Europe. The Cleveland-based Organ Recovery Inc., a regional clearinghouse for transplant operations, relies essentially on air carriers to get kidneys, livers and other organs quickly to those in need...
Fresh-cut flower markets also depend on air transport of their products. In Colorado, where about 20% of the nation's carnations are grown, wholesalers initially feared that flight cancellations would leave tens of thousands of blooms wilting alongside the runway at Denver's Stapleton International Airport. In New York's bustling flower market, blooms arrive daily from as far away as California, South America and The Netherlands, and delivery delays can mean big losses. In fact, shipments arrived as expected in most markets around the country...
...important new industries get their products to market by air transport. Much of the 1.2 million lbs. of air-freight cargo shipped every day out of Boston's Logan International Airport consists of computers, semiconductors and other microelectronics equipment manufactured by high-technology firms in the Boston area. Last week those shipments were leaving as usual...
...American financial system still relies on air service, despite the great growth in electronic fund transfers, the method of automatically switching money from one bank to another via computer hookups. To receive payment on checks deposited by customers, banks must physically transport them to regional clearing centers that are operated by large banks and Federal Reserve branches. The funds can then be processed...