AIR SHIPPING WITH DHL AIR FREIGHT
The Sky's the Limit
The increasingly globalised nature of modern markets requires an air freight forwarder who can keep up with the capacity demands across multiple routes worldwide. What’s more, their services need to be fast, secure, and flexible enough to ensure reliable air shipping no matter the circumstances. Enter: DHL Global Forwarding.
Working with carefully selected carriers, we operate with schedules on all the world’s major routes so you can plan with certainty and become more efficient. We offer a range of secure and highly flexible air shipping products, which allow a choice of delivery speeds to best suit your requirements.
Choose DHL and allow our Air Freight Experts to eliminate all the pain and effort of dealing with carriers, customs, compliance, and paperwork, ensuring high quality throughout the supply chain.
Our Products
All products include:
- Door-to-door service with other options available
- Defined lead times
- Optional Cargo Insurance
- End-to-end visibility
- Optional Customs Brokerage
Within 24 hours 1, 2
60 min 3
DHL Same Day Jetline
Mission Critical Next Flight Out
- Globally available, next flight out unaccompanied service
- Door-to-door 24/7/365 service
- Pick-up typically within 60 minutes of order
- One transparent door-to-door price
- End-to-end proactive tracking and monitoring
- Online, real-time tracking
- Customs clearance/document preparation
- Dangerous goods and temperature-controlled handling
Our additional ‘secure’ service level meets high security and emergency needs, with an accompanied door-to-door pick-up and delivery, provided by an onboard courier or chartered aircraft.
Within 24 hours 1, 2
120 min ³
DHL Same Day Speedline
Mission Critical Best Flight Out
- Best flight out service within a defined network
- Door-to-door 24/7/365 service
- Pick-up typically within 120 minutes of order
- One transparent door-to-door price
- End-to-end proactive tracking and monitoring
- Online, real-time tracking
- Customs clearance/document preparation
- Dangerous goods and temperature-controlled
1-2 days
Standard
DHL Air Priority
Urgent Air Freight
Ideal for time-sensitive freight, delivered in the fastest possible door-to-door freight forwarding transit time.
Using the first scheduled carrier flight out, this service delivers accelerated shipment clearance and handling at origin and destination.
- Globally available service
- Typical door-to-door transit time of 1–2 days
- Priority treatment throughout the network for freight shipments
- Prioritsed status with carriers
- Door-to-door delivery with other options available
- Import/export customs brokerage
- End-to-end real time visibility
1-5 days 4
Standard
DHL Airfreight Plus
Day Definite Intra European
Simplifying air freight transport, this service offers a range of day definite transit times for door-to-door intra-European freight shipments, in one all-inclusive rate.
Built upon DHL’s feeder and carrier network, shipments benefit from daily departures, fixed schedules and local DHL expertise.
- Network coverage for intra-European freight shipments
- Three door-to-door transit time service levels: Priority (1-2 days), Classic (2-3 days) and Deferred (2-5 days)
- One all-inclusive price, quoted and invoiced
- Door-to-door delivery, with other options available, depending on customer demand
- Handling high value, oversized or dangerous goods
- Import/export customs brokerage
- End-to-end real time visibility
5-7 days
Standard
DHL Air Economy
Economical Air Freight
Using the most economical routing and carrier selection, this cost-effective product doesn’t compromise on customer service.
This globally available and reliable service is ideal for less time-sensitive freight.
- Cost effective, global service
- Typical transit time of 5-7 days
- Service for general cargo (no dangerous goods, oversized or temperature-controlled cargo)
- Door-to-door service with other options available
- Freight consolidated at our regional hubs allowing greater shipment control
- Import/export customs brokerage
- End-to-end real time visibility
Upon request
Standard
DHL Air Charter
Specialist Cargo Handling
Providing flexible capacity and routing options for your special lift requirements.
From new product launches and line-down situations to handling oversize, heavyweight or other special freight, we have qualified charter experts in key centres of trade.
- Globally available
- Flexible capacity and routing options for special lift requirements
- Handling oversized, heavyweight cargo, dangerous goods, perishables and valuable freight
- Freight movement coordinated to the Customer’s precise schedule
- DHL controls the shipment from pick-up to final delivery
- Qualified and experienced charter experts in key centres of trade
- Import/export customs brokerage provided
- End-to-end real time visibility
Upon request
Standard
DHL Air Thermonet
Standard Temperature Controlled Air Freight
Offering 24/7/365 proactive shipment monitoring and intervention, this service delivers regulatory compliance with high visibility of the Customer’s product movement throughout the supply chain.
Meeting global standards for temperature-controlled life sciences air freight shipments, the service is supported by our global Good Distribution Practice (GDP) compliant network of certified life sciences stations.
Adhering to regulatory compliant customer procedures, this service is managed through the industry-dedicated IT system ‘Learn More aboutLearn More aboutLifeTrack’.
- A single global network of certified life sciences stations managed by and compliant to DGF’s GDP guidelines
- 24/7/365 proactive shipment monitoring and intervention
- Single Quality Management System with DGF GDP guidelines embedded into the processes
- Over 4,500 trained and certified life sciences specialists
- End-to-end SOP driven process, delivering the highest quality standards
- Shipment visibility and monitoring supported by in-transit temperature data and monitoring RFID
- Import/export customs brokerage provided
Watch our DHL Air Thermonet video
¹ Including weekend operations
² Depending on origin & destination
³ Pick up time from order (standard shipments)
⁴ DHL Airfreight Plus has 3 day definite service levels: Priority 1-2, Classic 2-3 & Deferred 3-5 days
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Why Choose Us?
Our flexible and diverse products, global reach & local knowledge, all delivered hassle-free by our Air Freight Experts.
- A range of time-specific options from economical routing to first flight out and even Same Day, delivering reliability at the speed you need
- Total flexibility over delivery choices (e.g. door-to-door, airport-to-airport) enables you to customise your Air Freight
- Preferential carrier access ensures your cargo receives transit time reliability, worldwide
- Over 7,000 Air Freight Experts in more than 190 countries ensuring smooth transit of your cargo
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At DHL we recognise that no two air shipments are alike – some shipments are ultra-urgent, others have to run on a tighter budget, and some require special handling. Therefore, our air freight services are diverse enough to cover an extensive range of requirements. For example, DHL SameDay Jetline provides the quickest possible air freight forwarding from door-to-door, for when tomorrow simply isn’t soon enough. With this service, your shipment will be picked up within 60 minutes and put on the next available flight to its destination. Meanwhile, DHL Air Connect is ideal for when you require fast yet affordable air shipping within 3-5 days, covering a wide range of freight types, including dangerous or oversized goods. In addition, we provide a variety of industry-specific solutions, such as temperature controlled shipments for the life sciences and healthcare sectors. Furthermore, we offer you truly flexible services, allowing you to combine freighting methods that are tailored for your needs. By blending air freighting with ocean and road freighting for example, we provide a seamless to modular service built to meet your scheduling and cost requirements.
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DHL is trusted as the world’s largest air freight forwarder. As such, we have a truly global reach with a network and team of freight experts spanning all corners of the globe. This allows you to transport goods from here to there – quickly, safely and with ease. However, our network is about much more than just reach: in the spirit of thinking globally and acting locally, we have over 850 offices around the world to ensure local knowledge is available wherever you need it. What’s more, we employ dedicated airport-based DHL staff. This means you can rest assured that when you arrange air freight shipping with us, it will be managed by us, not by airport ground handlers or airline staff.
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When you choose to use air freight to transport goods across borders, speed is of course one of the central considerations. In order to deliver this speed reliably, however, the effect that customs checks can have on the timely delivery of your cargo needs to be taken into account. Therefore, we provide comprehensive customs services, including brokerage and consulting, to ensure a speedy and hassle free route through the process. Our team of highly experienced customs experts are on hand to assist you in complying with all the legal and procedural requirements involved with your air freight shipments – from import and export declaration filing to duties and tax advancement, and much more. We process more than seven million customs entries per year and have dedicated global, regional and country teams for customs services. Thanks to this considerable experience and expertise, you can trust DHL to ensure customs compliance, cost efficiency and timely delivery for your air shipments in more than a hundred countries and territories worldwide.