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[air] Cargo tonne km (CTKs) were down about 13% year on year as of July, but are recovering. You can find relevant charts here.

https://www.aircargonews.net/airlines/iata/iata-outlook-carg...

The measures taken by the governments of some large countries in response to COVID-19 have had pretty severe negative impacts on the economy of those countries, which would surely have a downward pressure on air freight. People who recently lost their job are unlikely to be spending up large on Amazon.

Interestingly, real disposable Personal Income per capita is actually up in the US. See eg https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/A229RX0

But the economy has nose dived. The amount of goods will have also decreased surely?

Most intercontinental freight moves on boats. They can move orders of magnitude more than a plane.