It may be the case that the airport you usually use does not offer the route you’re looking for, or you have the destination location but aren’t familiar with the surrounding airports to make the shipment. Usually, you’d have to find the best options by searching by yourself which can be time-consuming.

WebCargo’s Airport Maps is a great solution for this and using Google Maps tool shows you the closest airports to your destination, removing the legwork needed to find this information usually. Find out how to use by watching the below video, or reading this article.

The Airport Maps feature is available for Professional and Enterprise users.

1. Accessing the airport maps feature

There are two ways you can access the airport feature: either on the homepage (i) or by clicking on the Air tab and selecting Airport Maps (ii).

(i)

(ii)

2. Enter your destination airport

Enter a city, a town name, a postcode, or even the complete address of the destination to ship to and click search. You will see a map that has the closest airports to your chosen location. The location is signed with a red icon, and the nearest airports are marked with green icons.

Tip: if you want to search again, enter another address and click ‘Search.’

3. Select your airports

To the right-hand side of the map, you can see the closest airports to your destination. You can now click on each box for the airports you would like to see rates for.

Tip: airports highlighted in red means there are promo rates to this destination. White means they are standard market rates.

4. Choose your import or export destinations

(i) Export destination

In order to find out the export rates from specific locations, enter the city names and choose them from the drop-down. Once you’re happy with your export destinations, click on the Export button. You will then be able to see all available rates for the airports selected from the list.

Tip: the airports selected from the tick boxes and the export rates entered in the box will be mapped to the rate search page as shown below.

(ii) Import destinations

If you are looking to import a shipment from one of the airports shown on the airport maps tool, you can do that too by choosing the ‘Import rates to’ button. This will show you airlines that offer this route and their import rates from the countries selected from the list. Click on Import to see the different airlines and rates available.

5. Comparing the best rates

Whether it’s for import or export rates, you will be taken to the main rates results page, showing all options to the chosen destinations selected using the airport maps tool.

Tip: when you first make a search all results will be bundled together, showing options from different locations to destinations.

You can filter to choose by the specific airport for origin or destination by clicking on the dropdown just above the search results as shown below. The results will automatically reload when you select a different destination.

6. Create your quote

You can now follow the standard quote creation process. Remember to add your specific weights and dimensions and click ‘Rates’ every time you make a change. The selected airports will still be populated when a new search is performed.