Commercial · Worldwide from YYZ
Air Freight Services from Toronto
Most of the freight we forward moves by ocean, because most freight should: it costs a fraction of air. Air freight is for the shipment where the math flips: a production line waiting on a part, a trade show that opens Friday, an order with a penalty clause.
Your freight is packed and palletized at our Toronto warehouse by the crews that build our export containers, booked through licensed IATA cargo agents at Toronto Pearson (YYZ), and trucked to the airline's terminal on our own truck, with the ocean price quoted beside the air quote.
- Airport
- Toronto Pearson (YYZ) cargo terminals
- Bookings
- Through licensed IATA cargo agents and consolidators
- Packing
- Export packing, crating and palletizing at our warehouse
- Delivery
- Airport-to-airport or door-to-door with destination partners
When air freight is worth it, and when it is not
Air freight is priced on chargeable weight — the greater of actual weight and volumetric weight — and typically costs five to fifteen times the ocean rate for the same shipment. That is worth paying when the cargo is light, urgent and valuable: spare parts, samples, medical goods, documents of value, launch inventory. It is rarely worth paying for dense or heavy freight, which is why we quote the ocean alternative beside every air quote. A pallet that flies for $4,000 and sails for $500 deserves a conscious decision, and our LCL ocean service is often the answer once the real deadline is on the table.
- Urgent: production stoppages, trade shows, contract deadlines
- Light and valuable: parts, samples, electronics, medical supplies
- Perishable timelines where an ocean transit kills the value
- Not for dense, heavy or non-urgent freight — we will tell you when ocean wins
Packed to fly: the part we do with our own hands
Airlines are stricter than steamship lines: skids must be stackable or capped, overhangs are rejected, crates must pass the forklift test, and dangerous goods paperwork must be exact. Our crews prepare air cargo at our Toronto warehouse — export crating, heat-treated lumber where the destination requires it, palletizing to airline height limits, shrink wrapping and banding — then our truck delivers it to the airline's cargo terminal at Pearson with the paperwork riding along. Freight that arrives at the terminal correctly packed and documented makes its flight; that is most of what air freight service actually is.
Booked through the people who book planes all day
We place air bookings through licensed IATA cargo agents and consolidators we work with, rather than pretending to be an airline desk ourselves. That is deliberate: consolidators buy space daily on every carrier out of YYZ and price sharper than an occasional shipper ever could, and it keeps our role honest — the warehouse, the packing, the trucking and the coordination are ours; the aircraft belongs to the specialists. Customs entries at destination are filed by licensed brokers, coordinated the same way we do it for ocean forwarding.
How it works
From booking to proof of delivery
- 01
Tell us the deadline
What the cargo is, weight and dims, where it must be and by when. We quote air — and the ocean alternative when the deadline allows it.
- 02
We pack and prep
Crated, palletized and wrapped to airline standards at our warehouse; commercial invoice and airway bill details prepared.
- 03
Booked and tendered
Space confirmed through our IATA cargo agents; our truck tenders the freight at the YYZ cargo terminal ahead of cut-off.
- 04
Flown and delivered
Airport-to-airport, or cleared and delivered door-to-door by our destination partners. You get the airway bill and milestones as they happen.
What's included
Everything on the invoice, nothing hidden
- Air / ocean comparison quote so the speed premium is a decision, not a default
- Export packing, crating and palletizing to airline standards
- Pickup across the GTA and trucking to the YYZ cargo terminal
- Booking through licensed IATA cargo agents and consolidators
- Airway bill and export documentation preparation
- Destination clearance and delivery coordination on door-to-door moves
Built for
Who uses this service
- Manufacturers with line-down parts emergencies
- Exporters with samples, launches and trade show deadlines
- Importers flying in stock while the ocean replenishment sails
- Shippers of light, high-value goods where the air premium is small
Service area: GTA & Southern Ontario
Our facility
Our warehouse in Toronto
A working dock minutes from the intermodal terminals: containers received live or dropped, freight unloaded by our own crews, storage on our racks, and straight trucks loading for delivery — there whenever a shipment needs it.
- Operating warehouse in North York, Toronto
- Dock-level receiving, container live-unload or drop, racked and floor storage, staging for outbound.
- Lumper crews on staff
- Floor-loaded 40′ containers are hand-unloaded, palletized and wrapped by our own people — not day labour.
- Straight trucks for delivery
- Warehouse-to-door distribution across the GTA & Southern Ontario, including inside and white-glove delivery.
- Minutes from the intermodal terminals
- ≈15 min to CPKC Vaughan, ≈30 min to CN Brampton, ≈25 min to the Port of Toronto — short drays, fewer chassis days.
FAQ
Air Freight: frequently asked questions
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Related services
Often booked together
Commercial quote
Get an air freight quote
Send the cargo details, dims, weight and the real deadline. You get the air quote, the ocean alternative when it fits, and a straight recommendation.
- Itemized pricing — terminal, fuel, chassis and accessorials listed
- Answered by dispatch during business hours, Mon–Fri
- Standing rate sheets for recurring volume
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