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24 No. 52 Wednesday
December 10, 2025 |
Indo-Afghan Cargo Okayed For Take Off
When India decided to switch on its long-dormant air cargo corridors with Afghanistan, it wasn’t merely resuming flights. It was reasserting itself in a geopolitical space that has grown more contested, more volatile, and more strategically consequential since the Taliban takeover in 2021. The revival of dedicated Kabul-Delhi and Kabul-Amritsar cargo routes signals India’s calibrated return to a trade corridor that it now aims to reclaim.
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Cargo Imbalances China-India Flights
When India-China direct passenger flights resumed in October 2025 after a five-year freeze, the return of scheduled connectivity was read as a symbol that regional aviation normalization in Asia was finally back on the table. But beneath the visible reopening, the invisible asymmetry that freight carriers care about most remains firmly in place. While flying passengers between the two . . .
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Chuckles for December 10, 2025
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Kendra Tanner to Keynote AirCargo 2026 Orlando Conference
The upcoming AirCargo Conference�2026 set February 15-18, 2026 at The Omni ChampionsGate in Orlando promises to be an inspiring event with Kendra Tanner as the Keynote Speaker.
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John Ryan—Is There Life After Air Cargo?
Yep! Life goes for John and Gloria Ryan pictured at home sumptuously situate on Long Island, New York this December 2025.
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24 No. 51 Monday
December 1, 2025 |
Glyn And Ram On Air Cargo Tomorow
“Everybody talks about, but no one does a thing about it” is a popular notion about what?
“The weather!”
But as we close 2025 in an absolute blizzard of industry events of all kinds, it’s time to point some focus on which gathering of air cargo and logistics really meant something above and beyond everyone’s desire of furthering transport. |
Wang Fuk Rises From The Ashes
The recent fires at the Wang Fuk Court complex in Hong Kong have been among the deadliest in the city's history.
The fire started on a lower-level scaffolding net and spread rapidly, leading to a significant loss of life and the evacuation of residents.
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24 No. 50 Wednesday
November 26, 2025 |
LaGuardia Historic Marine Air Terminal In Danger
As you read this, we learn that the pioneering Marine Air Terminal (MAT) at LaGuardia Airport, where all scheduled international aviation in New York City took off in 1940, that we as an air cargo publication, if you can believe it, were miraculously lucky enough to save from destruction in 1980, well, the same Marine Air Terminal, i.e. the building that attained Landmark Preservation status, could be in immediate danger of being thoughtlessly altered out of existence by the airport operator The Port Authority of New York and New Jersey. |
Chuckles For November 26, 2025
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Thanksgiving In America
Thanksgiving in America is held every fourth Thursday in November, and is the best of all the holidays that gather families and friends around a common celebration.
Personalities aside, this is one holiday that is a no-pressure deal.
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24 No. 49 Tuesday
November 18, 2025 |
Southwest Cargo Straight Talk
If there is one thing that has been a constant at Southwest Airlines (SWA) Cargo or elsewhere it’s fielding top executives that tell it like it is. |
Chuckles For November 18, 2025
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EMO Trans On The Beach At Miami
At The Miami Convention Center as Air Cargo Americas met last week, an unexpected fast-moving cold snap may have lowered temperatures outside, but inside the mammoth Miami Beach arena, the warmth and welcome and great Latin Spirit that is always the signature note of this biennial event continued in 2025.
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Kale Logistics Celebrates 15
Here is Amar More, CEO & Co founder of Kale Logistics Solutions.
In 2010, Amar, Rajesh Panicker and Vineet Malhotra got together with some other like-minded, techno-savvy people, who decided to deliver to the world a better idea in a 21st Century system that promised to express air cargo in the choked and regularly timed out environs on the ground in airport cargo areas around the world.
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24 No. 48 Wednesday
November 12, 2025 |
Things To Come In Air Cargo Logistics?
So what do you know or suppose might happen ahead after flying around from industry event to industry event for some months now, wondering what’s up and what should we suppose or plan for in air cargo as 2025 moves into 2026 and beyond?
Here are some thoughts from sources FT talks to that can be imagined as within the realm of possible things to come in air cargo. |
Mastering New Recipes At Kale Logistics
Writing for the FlyingTypers is a pretty unique experience. You just need to keep your brain connected and let your imagination run: the pages open up in front of your eyes as though you were in a picture movie. Today our inspiration comes from Rajan Subramanian, Chief Product and Chief AI Officer at Kale Logistics. If you hear his name and you think that he is dealing with AI and all the hottest topics that are on today’s menu in logistics automation . . .
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Frontier For Life Sciences
Every once in a while, the right people find themselves in the right place at the right time and all of us can just marvel as the story unfolds, and as an industry we are eye witnesses to continuing and elevating possibilities.
Take the case of Leandro Moreira . . .
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Vol.
24 No. 47 Tuesday
November 11, 2025 |
A Global Leader Making Payments Safe And Easy
Todd Pigeon is a senior P&L leader with expertise driving revenue capture, operations, sales enablement, and customer experience initiatives for businesses with complex end-to-end supply chain and logistics challenges. He is Vice President of Sales at PayCargo, a leading service provider in logistics finance services. FlyingTypers had the opportunity to exchange views with Todd on his career and role in the company from his office in . . . |
Chuckles For November 11, 2025
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Winners Meeting ATC This Week
Ingo Zimmer, CEO of All-Star GSSA ATC is waiting to see you in Miami at Air Cargo Americas today.
Just like any top executive in air cargo today, he is fixing in his mind what will be said about the condition and power of his GSSA as it moves inexorably to the very top in every measurable estimation of quality and service.
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Customers Getting It On American
“In many ways, at AA Cargo we have our version of a “Chaos Manager.
“When I joined the cargo division at the time of the US Airways–American Airlines merger in late 2013, I was tasked with building the Cargo Customer Experience department from the ground up.
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Commemorating Veterans Day 2025
At airports around the USA we often see greeters welcoming overseas military transport coming and going.
The tradition was started at the airports during Operation Desert Storm, and has continued in some quarters ever since.
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24 No. 46 Tuesday
November 4, 2025 |
Jan Krems Still Loves Sexy Cargo
Of all the airline executives in the world today, no doubt, the most exciting, with a proven track record of success over an extended decade plus serving as President of United Air Cargo, is Jan Krems; now elevated or as it is said on the street, “upped” to vice-president of the entire airline itself. |
Chuckles For November 4, 2025
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In Dutch With The Dutchess
The phrase “see what the bears in the back room will have” describing the need for satisfying the wishes and demands of “the old boy network” , which used to run nearly everything in business just got a 21st century wake-up call in Abu Dhabi of all places, as the smart, engaged, very enlightened and
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More On More On TIACA
As a TIACA board member, I am really looking forward to the Air Cargo Forum (ACF) in Abu Dhabi. ACFs have always been special to me with the prospect of interacting with different global stakeholders from shipper, forwarder, airline, handlers, regulators,
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24 No. 45 Friday
October 31, 2025 |
Last Mile & Trucker Bankruptcies
Where in the world is Brandon Fried? If there is an issue impacting logistics you need to know about, don’t bet against the always in motion Brandon Fried of the Airforwarders Association not being on top of it. |
Chuckles For October 31, 2025
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Kale Exceeds Need For Speed
Here is Amar More, Co-founder and Chief Executive Officer of high-flying Kale Logistics Solutions, “ready to connect, learn, and innovate in the heart of Miami Beach beginning November 11.
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Great Lady At ATC Celebrates 15
Wonderful to see hearts and flowers accompanying a salute for Dagmar Hanau, who marked 15 years in the Management Team as Group Marketing Manager at ATC Aviation.
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India Focus On Unified Logistics System
A dramatic change has been noticed in India's air cargo sector. The sector, once characterized with a fragmented network of airports, ports, and roads, is rapidly changing to a unified logistics system that is digitally advanced, globally competitive, and export-oriented. India is getting ready for a big launch in the global logistics field with its modern airports and improved customs
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24 No. 44 Wednesday
October 22, 2025 |
FIATA Unites In Vietnam
“FIATA unites in VIETNAM to advance contemporary logistics”: It is autumn. This is the time when The FIATA World Congress normally takes place; as regular as the change of the season, the FIATA World Congress opened its doors in Hanoi, Vietnam on October 6th. This is how FIATA . . . |
Welcome To Vietnam In Pictures |
Preview Of A Coming Attraction
In this age of global instant communication where everybody is either a podcast or celebrating personal triumphs in business or life, it is not unusual that Dr. Thomas Sim, just named President of FIATA International Federation of Freight Forwarders Associations at that organization’s big bash in Hanoi, Vietnam is featured here.
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Happy Diwali
March 30th 2025 marked the hundredth anniversary of the creation of Kai Tak Airport in Hong Kong.
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24 No. 43 Wednesday
October 8, 2025 |
Romancing The ULD-AA Cargo & Unilode
It may not seem like a very big deal but American Airlines Cargo selecting Unilode ULD Management to partner with to manage the entire American Airlines Cargo ULD fleet for 999 aircraft (August 28) puts a whole lot of cans on the line for Unilode to deliver on time with all manner of repair, maintenance, and digitization solutions.
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Chuckles for October 8, 2025
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Indian Tariff Impact Continues
“The impact has been sudden and disruptive,” said Dinesh Kumar Krishnan, Managing Director of United Shipping Services. His company had expanded to the U.S. recently to serve American importers sourcing from India. “The tariffs are stressing out our business plans. U.S. buyers are frustrated with elevated costs, and volumes are drying up week by week.”
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Kai Tak Memories
March 30th 2025 marked the hundredth anniversary of the creation of Kai Tak Airport in Hong Kong.
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No More Kicking The Cans
Not often we have two stories that picture ULDs.
Here is a picture of Thomas Nagel, who retired after 40 years at Lufthansa Cargo and is pictured next to a horse can in the warehouse, where horsing around and loving it was a way of life.
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24 No. 42 Wednesday
October 1, 2025 |
Jason Berry—From Cargo Ramp To The Big Time
Feel good story—for anyone wondering what the future might hold in an airline air cargo career, it would be heartening to learn that Jason Berry, the President of Horizon Air and Alaska Airlines Group Executive Vice President of Cargo, has been named Alaska Air Group Chief Operating Officer (COO ) and will assume that post November 3.
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De Minimis Headwinds At FedEx
FedEx Corporation that generated USD$87.7 billion in annual revenue during its fiscal year 2024 has been in the news lately reportedly forecasting a loss of one billion of those billions due to the global trade environment, particularly influenced by the end of the de minimis exemption on smaller packages.
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At PayCargo AI Transforming Logistics & Payments
Artificial Intelligence is reshaping global logistics at an unprecedented pace.
For decades, companies have sought solutions to accelerate operations, reduce errors and streamline financial and operational flows. While many challenges have persisted, AI now offers the potential to remove friction across the supply chain, delivering speed, visibility, and reliability in ways that were not possible before.
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LogiPharma 20th In Boston
This week LogiPharma marks 20 years as an annual meeting place for senior pharma, biotech, and medtech supply chain leaders worldwide.
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Typhoon Ragasa Impacts Asia Pacific
The destruction in Shanghai last week as Super Typhoon Ragasa pounded the city was described as “horrific”.
“It’s been 75 years, not since 1949 has our city been impacted like this,” was one observation.
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