Securing Cherries - A Perishable Thought.

While today''s economy has a lot of people wondering what is going to happen to the aviation industry, another economic condition causing a lot of head scratching in the perishables industry is literally supply vs. demand.

Because of the increase in fuel costs, airlines have greatly reduced the number of passenger flights, thereby reducing belly capacity for shippers. According to figures from the Air Transport Association, flights by U.S. carriers were cut by 5.2 percent in the third quarter 2008 and 9.3 percent in the fourth quarter compared to the same period in 2007, and will be cut by almost 11 percent during the first three quarters of 2009, compared to the same …