| Vol.
13 No. 23 Monday
March 10,
2014 |
| “There’s
a new spirit of optimism and a momentum toward innovation within
the United Cargo team – and our customers are sensing this
as well,” said Robbie Anderson, President-United Cargo as
Air Cargo Symposium in Los Angeles takes off this week.
“This is an offshoot of many positive
developments in the new year and a number of enhancements that are
either in planning or in place. |
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On April 17, 1973, fourteen French Dassault Falcon
planes took off from Memphis International Airport and delivered 186
packages to twenty-five U.S. cities along the east coast.
Those first flights not only marked the beginning
of FedEx Express, but also the start of the express industry as a
whole.
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With the deadline
for compliance with new European security requirements looming, FlyingTypers
has teamed up with FIATA’s David Fielder, Chairman of the FIATA’s
Advisory Body on Security Matters, to help explain to forwarders exactly
what they need to understand before ACC3 enters into force on July
1. |
“Africa
is a key growth region for Emirates SkyCargo and the additional capacity
and frequency of a scheduled freighter service will create new opportunities
for businesses in Tunisia and Cote D’Ivoire,” said Nabil
Sultan, Emirates Divisional Senior Vice President, Cargo as scheduled
weekly (Mondays) B777F begins service |
| Vol.
13 No. 22 Wednesday
March 5,
2014 |
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As full year data
for 2013 is released, it is becoming ever clearer that global
air freight markets swung upwards in the final quarter. Analysts
forecast more of the same in the months ahead, although as previously
explained in FlyingTypers, expect a skewing of the figures in
January and February due to the moveable feast (more like famine
from an air cargo perspective!) that is Chinese New Year.
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Milan
Malpensa Airport was added to the Lufthansa Cargo freighter network
March 5 with twice weekly services via MD-11 freighters and newly
delivered Boeing 777Fs.
Milano now also serves as stopover for Lufthansa
Cargo flights returning to Frankfurt from Cairo. |
“Control Tower”
is something new from United Cargo that Peggy Guse, Cargo Director
of Sales Strategy, Marketing and Customer Service, says will greatly
enhance the planning and management of temperature-sensitive cargo
shipped via their TempControl service. |
Today’s
international trade demands the traded goods arrive just in time—safely,
securely, in an increasingly sustainable manner and, more than ever,
at reasonable costs.
Economic factors are not just keywords; they set
the new “norm” throughout the logistics industry.
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| Vol.
13 No. 21 Monday
March 3,
2014 |
| While most of air
cargo that attends events were networking and thinking big thoughts
at Air Cargo India in Mumbai, Fruit Logistica in Berlin was doing
business like crazy, setting records for innovation and attendance
by more than 60,000 as the top transportation and commodity event
in Europe in 2014. |
(Thailand Exclusive)—When
thinking about Thailand, most people inside and outside the industry
focus upon Bangkok—Khrung Thep, the city of Angels. Some
may even recall the Golden Triangle-cum-hill tribal area of Chiang
Mai, or the holiday destinations Pattaya or Phuket.
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Here are two opinions
on FlyingTypers coverage this week, "Voices From UPS
Flight 1354."
Since in many ways we are a family, FlyingTypers
people follow familiar patterns, including occasionally disagreeing.
You too are invited to join us.
What do you think? |
Geoffrey,
All too often we forget the people and companies
that set the foundation for the growth and success of air cargo.
Letting the Seaboard sign fall into disrepair is
an indication of this. I, for one, will gladly send the NY Port Authority
the money to fix the sign. It is just that we all need to respect
the people and companies that have preceded us. |
| Vol.
13 No. 20 Wednesday
February 26,
2014 |
| UPS Airlines Flight
1354 was a scheduled cargo flight from Louisville International
Airport to Birmingham–Shuttlesworth International Airport.
On August 14, 2013, the aircraft flying this route—a
UPS Airlines Airbus A300-600F—crashed and burst into flames
short of the runway on approach to Birmingham–Shuttlesworth
International Airport in the US state of Alabama. |
International Women’s
Month is celebrated around the world during the month of March.
The theme for International Women’s Day
on March 8th is “Inspiring Change.” |
Qantas could slash
as many as 3,000 jobs in a plan to strip $2 billion in costs. Tomorrow
it will reveal half-year results, which could be as much as $300 million
according to statements issued by the airline last December. |
Singapore Changi Airport
has again extended a range of financial incentives as part of its
decade long drive to try and boost its cargo throughput and hold on
to its existing business. |
| Vol.
13 No. 18 BullDog Edition Tuesday
February 18,
2014 |
| The words from a
Lufthansa Cargo spokesman to FlyingTypers were terse:
“During the course of investigations by
the prosecutor’s office against, among others, an employee
of Lufthansa Cargo, various company offices were searched today
at the Frankfurt base. |
Bill Gottlieb, (left)
Honorable Member of the Board of FIATA and Thomas Sim, (right) Chairman
of the FIATA Advisory Body Vocational Training, approach 2014 with
a full agenda and some exciting news as the ICAO/FIATA Dangerous Goods
by Air Training Program has seen tremendous developments since its
inception two years ago. |
| Vol.
13 No. 16 Friday
February 14,
2014 |
| Tony Charaf is an
optimist.
When the Delta Airlines Senior Vice President and Chief
Cargo Officer speaks, it doesn’t matter what the current situation
is—you get the clear sense that he is both in the moment but
also able to look ahead, weighing options and never allowing things
to get out of hand.
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Recent announcement
that Carsten Spohr has been named as Chief Executive Officer of Lufthansa
brought to mind an interview we conducted with him in Leipzig a few
years back, as the company Aerologic (the cooperation between Lufthansa
Cargo and DHL) was launched. |
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Shirley Temple, who died
Tuesday at age 85, was once a gigantic child movie star who later
became an American icon and a US Ambassador to Czechoslovakia in 1990.
In 2014 she may be best known as a favorite drink of the fast
class, who belly up for a sweet Shirley Temple, little umbrellas in
the drink and all. |
| Vol.
13 No. 15 Monday
February 10,
2014 |
| 
Takes The Cake .
. . Emirates launches daily B777-300ER services from Dubai to Taipei
Monday.
In the picture (L) Edwin Lau, Emirates Vice President Hong Kong
& Taiwan; Barry Brown, Emirates Divisional Senior Vice President,
Commercial Operations East; His Highness Sheikh Ahmed bin Saeed
Al-Maktoum, Chairman and Chief Executive, Emirates Airline &
Group; Nabil Sultan, Emirates' Divisional Senior Vice President,
Cargo and Mr Yin Chen-Pong, Chairman of Taipei Taoyuan Airport Authority. |
The 2014 edition of
Air Cargo India last week in Mumbai may be recalled as the event where
the Air Cargo Agents Association (ACAAI)—the body representing
the air cargo agents in the country—stood its ground. ACAAI
did not back down and actually took off the gloves, engaging in a
verbal fist fight with IATA and some others, including TIACA and even
a well-known industry icon.
“Freight Forwarder Perspective In Indian Scenario”
only lasted one hour and forty five minutes, presented just before
lunch last Wednesday, February 5. |
“A
welcome addition to our freight capacity between Ireland and Boston,”
said Peter O’Neill, Director of Cargo, as Aer Lingus launched
its inaugural Boeing B757 service from Shannon to Boston.
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Dear Geoffrey,
Just wanted to comment on Air
Cargo News/FlyingTypers.
I have been reading
your media throughout the years with always great interest. |
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A $400USD camera
with the ability to take fisheye, wide angle images and video makes
this view fun and fantastic. |
| Vol.
13 No. 14 Friday
February 7,
2014 |
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The mannered manager
of the English band whose name few had previously heard had a message
for all those present in the conference room at JFK's International
Arrivals Building (IAB, now Terminal 4). Speaking to mostly seasoned
representatives of Pan American Airways, the Port Authority, and the
New York Police Department, Brian Epstein could not have found an
audience less likely to believe that they were weeks from experiencing
a crowd unlike anything they had seen before. |
| Vol.
13 No. 13 Wednesday
February 5,
2014 |
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 wherever
you are, as Chinese Lunar New Year, the “Year of the Horse”
begins in China and is celebrated around the world.
As you read this, many in Taiwan and Hong Kong have
reopened for work, but the “big soup dumpling” of Mainland
China remains almost entirely on holiday until next week. |
India’s
only air cargo show -- Air Cargo India 2014 – took off on its
fifth foray yesterday (February 4, 2014) at the country’s commercial
capital of Mumbai.
The event opened amidst a lot of expectations and
hopes for a resurgent air cargo industry driven by an active India
market after a Luke warm 2013.
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| Vol.
13 No. 12 Monday
February 3,
2014 |
A bag checked by
a passenger booked on Bangkok Airways flight PG931 bound for Phnom
Penh, Cambodia on Tuesday, January 28th caught fire while being
placed on a conveyor belt by a baggage handler.
The preliminary result of the investigation carried
out by the Thai CAA, the airport authority of Bangkok’s Suvarnabhumi
International airport and
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We joined Dr. Andreas
Otto, member of the Executive Board at Lufthansa Cargo, for his annual
“Meet The Trends” event in Frankfurt on January 30, just
after he had hosted a two-day customer conference.
The events were held at The Aircraft at Burghof,
featuring a lively, stylized aircraft interior, that we imagined could
also serve as a unique and uplifting venue for a wedding or all-night
dance party. |
| Vol.
13 No. 11 Friday
January 31,
2014 |
| I’m sitting
at a bar in the basement of the Central Terminal Building (CTB)
at LaGuardia Airport, in a space that used to be home to Manufacturers
Hanover Trust Bank, reminiscing on a time that I thought would never
go away.
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What
happened to Tim Peirce?
They took my friend’s airport
away. It was a place where he grew up and then managed for 23 years,
and that broke his heart, and he died.
It's been 14 years, and it's taken me
this long to finally share these words. |
| Vol.
13 No. 10 Wednesday
January 29,
2014 |
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A recent joint press
release by the industry triumvirate—TIACA/IATA/FIATA (no mention
of GACAG), plus ICAO—reported that after “a two-year research
project… the so called ‘higher-skills’, which include
leadership, team-building as well as market and financial analysis
techniques…” concluded that the “availability of
air cargo-focused programs that teach these higher-level skills is
limited.” |
| Vol.
13 No. 9 Monday
January 27,
2014 |
| There
are a number of well-known industry events that we have on our personal
radar—even if we choose not to attend—for which we receive
in-depth media coverage in all industry publications, such as the
IATA World Cargo Symposium, Air Cargo Americas, and Air Cargo Europe
every other year at Transport Logistik. |
“Take two aspirin and call me in
the morning,” the doctor used to say back in simpler times.
Here, SkyKing talks of freighters and the lingering impact of lift
as the industry struggles to work itself back into profits in 2014.
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| Vol.
13 No. 8 Wednesday
January 22,
2014 |
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Sometimes
it’s tough to figure out how some people build success.
But not with Joachim “Jo” Frigger.
This transportation executive has been building
a company called EMO Trans for most of his adult life and has successfully
moved up in the transportation arts from apprentice to grand master.
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| Vol.
13 No. 7 Monday
January 20,
2014 |
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Air
transport had to wait for decades before it could prove that the
carriage of heavy, bulky freight was a natural for the airplane.
A
few short years later, America’s commercial airlines, hand
in hand with the Air Force, kept a blockaded Berlin alive with a
duplicated mass airlift of dazzling performance
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| Vol.
13 No. 6 FRIday
January 17,
2014 |
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Somehow,
Hiran Perera has kept his youthful good looks and easygoing manner,
even managing to appear amused and not overwhelmed at the increased
attention he has received lately as Emirates SkyCargo Vice President
Cargo, Freighters.
Maybe it’s the experience gained after nearly
20 years aboard Emirates SkyCargo.
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“Good
question, but our answer may be even better!
“Saudia Cargo customers will benefit as the airline
further grows our passenger network with new B777-300 aircraft and
opens new routes to Los Angeles and Manchester.
“United Cargo is a company to watch in 2014 because we’ve
worked through the transformation of the past few years and we’re
now executing a stable, consistent process and technology.
 “Right
now as 2014 begins, we also launch a big year for the new American
Airlines Cargo.
“In December we began our journey to become the world’s
largest airline, allowing us to offer our customers an even larger
global network and even more capacity.
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| Vol.
13 No. 5 Wednesday
January 15,
2014 |
|
 Ask
Jim Butler, President of American Airlines Cargo, what the customer
can expect from the newly formed biggest airline in the world and
the freshman manager handles that question with the determination
and ease of a seasoned veteran:
“It’s an exciting time for our customers.
“In December, we officially closed our merger
with US Airways and began our journey toward building the world’s
largest airline.
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“Substantially
increased capacity with new freighters and wide body capacity added
to our network.
“New destinations to be announced, with service from
a new Cargo Terminal in operation to further improve quality of
the hub in Doha.
“TIACA is a great institution that brings
together and binds the widest spread of companies in the industry
(large and small, every stakeholder group, from all over the world)
to drive the industry agenda and create great networking events.
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| Vol.
13 No. 4 Monday
January 13,
2014 |
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On
January 10, Switzerland’s Competition Commission (Comco)
fined 11 airlines 11 million Swiss francs ($12 million USD)
for operating an air freight cartel between 2000 and 2005.
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After
a tough first three quarters, inventory renewals in Europe and
the U.S.—allied to a return to a traditional peak-season
spike in demand—saw Asia’s air freight sector finish
the year strongly and with ample cause to expect a more prosperous
2014, albeit one marked by small gains rather than a return
to the good times of yore. |
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| Vol.
13 No. 3 Friday
January 10,
2014 |
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It will be a year of discovery; new board members,
a great world meeting, plus an unparalleled push into new frontiers
for The International Air Cargo Association (TIACA)
and Chairman Oliver Evans hits the ground running.
Evans, if nothing else, seems determined, even fearless
as he and his team at TIACA are reforming TIACA forever. |
| Vol.
13 No. 2 Wednesday
January 8,
2014 |
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"I
believe United Cargo customers will experience a more creative and
collaborative partner in 2014,” said Robbie Anderson, President
for United Cargo, in a year opening interview exclusively for FlyingTypers.
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The
rapid U.S. withdrawal from Iraq in 2012 and now Afghanistan has left
many of the airlines that have been serving the DoD almost exclusively
since 1991 fighting for their very survival. We all know that the
one of the largest and longest serving core carriers in the CRAF program,
Evergreen, went belly up last month and ceased operation, grounding
their fleet of 13 Boeing 747 aircraft. We believe others will join
them in the near future. The most likely candidate to join Evergreen
in the desert parking lot will be World Airways. Having filed for
bankruptcy protection last month for the second time in less than
12 months doesn’t instill a lot of confidence they can survive.
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| Vol.
13 No. 1 Monday
January 6,
2014 |
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In
my preceding article entitled The Founding Forties, I devoted the
space to a streamlined overview of the earliest forces that wove the
fabric of a brand new industry—air cargo.
Hard on its heels is this piece, the first in a
series of articles that will encompass the pre-jet era dating from
the budding industry’s beginnings in 1945 to the ensuing decade-and-a-half. |
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