How can air cargo carriers decide which mode of integration(vertical or horizontal) to chose?
Hi Sonia I hope you are talking about Business Integration. This aspect is present in every industry not only in the cargo industry. Vertical Integration which includes forward integration and backward integration is more prominent in manufacturing companies or companies which own products. In this case for an air cargo company to do backward integration is make their own cargo aircraft which i believe is a tough call for any air cargo carrier. But the more prominent one is the Horizontal Integration wherein they can do a Merger / Accquisition with another cargo carrier. Hope i am answering your question ———- FOLLOW-UP ———- QUESTION: Thank you for the reply sir. Yes you are answering my question. I would like to know how do companies decide when to go in for a vertical integration and when do they go for horizontal integration? ANSWER: Hi Sonia There is no straight forward answer to your question. If i ask you a question that how and when u want to prepare say “Spaghetti” t
