Each airline has a set of non-core, non-strategic activities and pooling these activities creates economies of scale and improves customer benefits. The pooling operation benefits all pool members through improved efficiencies, greatly reduced capital requirements, and lower, predictable fixed operating expenses. Pooling reduces imbalances, increases utilization, and lowers capital expenditures through the elimination of excess inventory.

Through our four-phased ULD management approach it is our ultimate, actively pursued goal to achieve full, industry-wide pooling, i.e. to have a common stock of ULDs owned and managed by Jettainer to which all customer airlines have equal access at all times. Similar to the operations of car rental companies we envisage strategically placed Jettainer hub stations worldwide where airlines can obtain ULDs from or return them to Jettainer and payment will be per-use only. Movement monitoring, worldwide stock balancing, repair and further continuous technology development will be performed by Jettainer. Under this scenario pooling will produce significant economies of scale for every participant, leveraging ULDs, transportation, and operational resources and providing them with the highest availability at the lowest costs.

At present the industry is not yet fully ready for this. As Jettainer’s client base grows and industry best practices evolve and take hold, we will optimize each client’s operation with a view towards the ultimate goal of industry pooling. Fusing the individual pieces of optimized airline ULD fleets together will then enable us to efficiently and reliably offer true pooling on a global scale.