{"id":14403,"date":"2026-01-06T21:19:35","date_gmt":"2026-01-06T21:19:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/axxessintl.com\/labour-and-skills-shortage-the-silent-airfreight-constraint-heading-into-2026\/"},"modified":"2026-01-06T21:20:36","modified_gmt":"2026-01-06T21:20:36","slug":"labour-and-skills-shortage-the-silent-airfreight-constraint-heading-into-2026","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/axxessintl.com\/en\/labour-and-skills-shortage-the-silent-airfreight-constraint-heading-into-2026\/","title":{"rendered":"Labour and Skills Shortage: The Silent Airfreight Constraint Heading into 2026"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span data-olk-copy-source=\"MessageBody\">Airfreight across the Americas is facing a growing labour and skills shortage heading into 2026, with staffing gaps in ground handling, pilots and air-traffic control increasingly constraining operations despite rising demand.<\/span><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>Workforce shortfalls are causing slower cargo processing, longer aircraft turnarounds, air-traffic control disruptions and clearance delays, highlighted by tower closures in Canada and widespread delays during the 2025 U.S. government shutdown.<\/p>\n<p>Industry responses focus on rebuilding the workforce pipeline through training, recruitment and credential portability, but human expertise remains the critical limiting factor, as automation cannot fully replace skilled air-cargo labour.<\/p>\n<p class=\"x_MsoNormal\">Read more in an\u00a0<a title=\"https:\/\/ciffa.apms5.com\/anywhere\/m?s=ciffa&amp;m=s_d04aa521-b09e-4ae3-bc08-0c578d522527&amp;u=e1jq4wvfdtfm8dhg6n1k4hj45n2mad255mu36ha25n13ada35mt3jc1m6rtm8cj370uk8&amp;r2=d1u78w3k78qjyrb9e9hp2wk7dxvpatbb5thpyv9fdhgp4vvne8pp2vk45ntppubcdhtjuwv8dxt78rb7cmpq8u355ntpjv35dtu2urb9e9k74tb9cxm78bb3dxq76x3jc5mpwx1dd1jp2t39dtkjuubeehqjuchg68v2y&amp;n=3\" href=\"https:\/\/ciffa.apms5.com\/anywhere\/m?s=ciffa&amp;m=s_d04aa521-b09e-4ae3-bc08-0c578d522527&amp;u=e1jq4wvfdtfm8dhg6n1k4hj45n2mad255mu36ha25n13ada35mt3jc1m6rtm8cj370uk8&amp;r2=d1u78w3k78qjyrb9e9hp2wk7dxvpatbb5thpyv9fdhgp4vvne8pp2vk45ntppubcdhtjuwv8dxt78rb7cmpq8u355ntpjv35dtu2urb9e9k74tb9cxm78bb3dxq76x3jc5mpwx1dd1jp2t39dtkjuubeehqjuchg68v2y&amp;n=3\" data-auth=\"NotApplicable\" data-linkindex=\"0\">article from Air Cargo Week<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Airfreight across the Americas is facing a growing labour and skills shortage heading into 2026, with staffing gaps in ground handling, pilots and air-traffic control increasingly constraining operations despite rising demand.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":15,"featured_media":13659,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[56],"tags":[293],"types-de-nouvelles":[],"class_list":["post-14403","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-freight-news","tag-airfreight-en"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/axxessintl.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14403","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/axxessintl.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/axxessintl.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/axxessintl.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/15"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/axxessintl.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14403"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/axxessintl.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14403\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14404,"href":"https:\/\/axxessintl.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14403\/revisions\/14404"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/axxessintl.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/13659"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/axxessintl.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14403"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/axxessintl.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14403"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/axxessintl.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14403"},{"taxonomy":"types-de-nouvelles","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/axxessintl.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types-de-nouvelles?post=14403"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}