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Airlines are cashing in on the AI boom. Just not from passengers.
Korean Air cargo revenue jumped 46% year over year in Q2 2026, hitting 1.54 trillion won. China Airlines and EVA Airways hit their best cargo quarters in three years. Spot rates on Northeast Asia to North America routes climbed 41% by late June.
The cargo holds aren't full of tourists. They're hauling Nvidia GPUs and server racks from Taiwanese and Korean fabs to North American data centres. The transpacific corridor has quietly become the supply chain artery of the AI buildout.
Asian airline earnings calls are now one of the cleaner real time reads on AI capex. Where the hard assets physically move tells you where the AI money is actually going.
Is airline cargo the proxy you've been overlooking?
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2026-07-16 08:59:20 UTCEvent JSON
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