01 / First mile
Elevate the entire journey:
- Automated booking process through Hangar A's proprietary eCMS system.
- 25,000 daily commercial flights.
- Smart parcel containerization.
EXPRESS SERVICE AT GROUND PRICING
Express shipping, redesigned from the sky down, for today’s e-commerce.
Reach
National scale. No new nodes.
Create faster paths to distant markets using the fulfillment infrastructure you already have.
Flexibility
Define your last-mile network however you'd like.
Choose final-mile carriers by geography, service level, cost, and customer experience.
Visibility
See orders, not just containers.
Connect transportation events to the customer orders inside each consolidated shipment.
Why air first
The middle mile is where e-commerce networks lose time.
FedEx and UPS weren’t designed to meet the high expectations of today’s e-commerce. They raise your costs every year. But their model hasn't evolved. It continually presents limitations to the capabilities and growth of e-commerce companies.
Hangar A gets your products into the hands of your customers faster, with economics that make sense. We consolidate parcels at origin, fly them in bulk to the destination region, then inject them directly into the local parcel network.
The speed comes from skipping the lag and convolution of long-distance trucking.
Long-zone
Optimize long-zone parcel deliveries
Long-zone ground parcel shipments are slow, especially by today's e-commerce standards. Long-distance trucking follows an indirect path and is subject to multiple hand-offs and driver regulations. In the past, express delivery hasn't made economic sense.
Hangar A offers a consistently high level of service across all shipping zones—without changing your final-mile carrier. And, it's surprisingly cost effective.
Resilience
Transportation reliability & peak resilience
Brands smartly build redundancy into their final mile to prepare for the unexpected. But they over-rely on a single transportation partner for the middle mile. That’s not true resilience.
Hangar A builds optionality into the middle mile, so you always have a dependable delivery alternative at the ready. With Hangar A, you have options, so your entire supply chain remains truly resilient through peak volume, high growth, and weather events.
Inventory
Open another distribution center? Read this first.
Brands are over-investing in regional distribution centers just to buy speed. More warehouses, more people and more inventory means more capital.
Hangar A enables you to keep inventory centralized and changes the economics of customer-centric distribution. Hangar A provides cost-effective express delivery so you can get products in customers’ hands faster. It’s like you’re just around the corner.
The difference
How Hangar A is different
Express-level speed at ground-level pricing—by using commercial flights, smart containerization, and integrated regional carriers.
Cost containment
Existing flights, smarter containers.
- Under-deck capacity on 25,000 daily flights from the largest commercial airlines—infrastructure already paid for by passenger revenue.
- No proprietary fleet overhead to carry.
- Gain economies of scale through containerization instead of paying for parcels individually.
Faster deliveries
Only one day coast to coast.
- Long-haul trucking takes four to five days to cross the country; Hangar A Express Delivery takes one to two.
- Express-level service at ground-level pricing.
- Zone skipping removes the standard middle-mile delays of long-zone shipments.
Greater reliability
Direct city to city, fewer handoffs.
- No hub-and-spoke air freight sorting or back-end delays.
- Fewer trucking handoffs means less damage, theft, visibility loss, and ELD-driven limitations.
- Live human support prioritizes cargo and manages weather and other disruptions.
True Visibility
Track and trace with full transparency.
- Advanced software, tracking and data management enables true transparency of the status of every parcel.
- A single reference for every transportation event from dock to door.
- Easy access through our intuitive UI or through other software via API.
“Hangar A has virtually transformed our operation by enabling us to provide uniform express delivery across the U.S. from our single New England fulfillment center at competitive prices.”
Is there a fit?
A better route may already be within reach.
Hangar A is worth evaluating if your transportation team is trying to:
- Improve speed to distant customer markets
- Reduce cross-country ground dependence
- Extend existing fulfillment-center reach
- Avoid warehouses added only for transit time
- Maintain flexibility across local carriers
- Add a delivery path without replacing your network
- Gain order-level middle-mile visibility
SEE WHAT YOUR NETWORK IS LEAVING ON THE TABLE
Let Hangar A reveal a faster, lower-cost path. Get a custom savings analysis.
A better path starts with a 15-minute phone call. We'll build a custom savings analysis showing where an air-first middle mile could improve time in transit, transportation cost, or both—using the fulfillment network and final-mile partners you already have.
Let's have a conversation.