Sixty-five percent of the passengers on the smaller planes generally are connecting to other destinations. Logan is everyone's airport and people from all parts of New England, including those served by commuter aircraft, should have access to it. Massport has been talking to cargo operators about relocating their operations in coming years. However, that will not have considerable impact on the number of flights at Logan. The majority of the cargo mail that passes through Logan is carried in the billions of passenger on commercial airline flights.
Airlines carry cargo to make their regular scheduled flights more profitable.