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13 No. 32 Monday
April 14,
2014 |
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 Bahrain
Exclusive—This week Issa Baluch planned
to devote at least the first few days of his Spring Break (off from
his teaching duties at Harvard University in Boston) to travel to
the ICAO/WTO meetings.
But alas, struck down with a cruel
flu tht has left him speechless, the “Enhancing Air Cargo
Security and Facilitation,” panel that tips off Wednesday
morning will have to settle with Mr. Baluch, who serves as a Member
of the Board for the International Federation of Freight Forwarders
Associations (FIATA) discussing his view of an integrated cargo
system to facilitate the safe and secure transport of goods by air,
in these pages, whilst recovering.
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Cathay Pacific Airways
is struggling to bolster air cargo volumes even as it expands its
service network. But with a major fleet renewal program underway and
analysts claiming its freight division is acting as a drag on Group
profits, improvement will be needed this year.
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Planespotters
track Sichuan Airlines aircraft as it approaches Taipei Songshan
Airport.
Information as you never see it at Flughafen-Stuttgart.
Happy Days
. . . Cebu Pacific Air President Lance Gokongwei, left, and Philippine
Airlines President and Chief Operating Officer Ramon S. Ang flash
the |
| Vol.
13 No. 31 Tuesday
April 8,
2014 |
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To Our Readers
The series of articles, Pre-Jet
Air Cargo, is a condensed history of the opening phase of the
infant air cargo industry’s first generation—a period
that is unfamiliar to most of the current crop of men and women
comprising the industry. The text is based on a broad scope of
authoritative sources—highlighting the more significant
events, official actions, technical developments, and professional
comment.
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"We are strengthening our position
in China considerably through the use of the best freighter. |
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13 No. 32 Monday
April 14,
2014 |
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October 2004—Julie Johansson, cargo
manager North America, third from right with her Los Angeles staff.
Add Malaysia Airlines
(in both passenger and cargo) as succumbing to business pressure
and competition by withdrawing line service from North America later
this month. |
Exclusive—FlyingTypers
provides unique insight into the WCS Sessions. Did IATA WCS Sessions
deliver?
“It would have been good to have seen
Tony Tyler (left) as a keynote speaker at World Cargo Symposium,”
said Patrick Murray, Head of Calogi and IT Guru, as he recalled
IATA Cargo Week in Los Angeles in March.
“As ever, the presence of the IATA top
executives no doubt clearly underlines IATA’s commitment
to the cargo business.
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The Wall Street
Journal reports Italy’s administrative court in Rome ruled
on Thursday in favor of Assaereo, an airline association that represents
Alitalia and other Italian airlines. |
Even the Energizer
rabbit will feel the heat if the ICAO panel that met up in Montreal
all this week comes down hard (as expected) on the cargo and pax transport
of lithium batteries.
The 14-member ICAO Dangerous Goods Panel (DGP) is
mostly government appointed from the leading trading nations –
plus some key industry stakeholders such as IATA and PRBA who enjoy
observer status. |
| Vol.
13 No. 31 Tuesday
April 8,
2014 |
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To Our Readers
The series of articles, Pre-Jet
Air Cargo, is a condensed history of the opening phase of the
infant air cargo industry’s first generation—a period
that is unfamiliar to most of the current crop of men and women
comprising the industry. The text is based on a broad scope of
authoritative sources—highlighting the more significant
events, official actions, technical developments, and professional
comment.
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"We are strengthening our position
in China considerably through the use of the best freighter. |
| Vol.
13 No. 30 Thursday
April 3,
2014 |
| First time
this week in Sao Paulo, ATC Aviation Services, the fast growing
global cargo GSSA with offices in Europe, Africa, Asia, and North
America, “is now also targeting growth in South America,”
according to company CEO Ingo Zimmer. |
Frankfurt Germany’s
Commerzbank Arena is all about business, as cargo security took
center stage April 1 in a confrontation that suffered no fools.
The local Bundesliga soccer team that populates
the venue might have spent the day thinking about their future,
but for the hard working, business-challenged air cargo industry,
tomorrow hung on today, as "Recognize Risks – Build
Alliances" brought Sabine Wiedemann, head of group security
at Daimler AG Stuttgart, to emphasize the theme—the need
for partnerships throughout the supply chain.
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"The new terminal and
facilities are a key part of our growth plans.
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The big show was in town and
although Hermes Aviation operates right nearby out at LAX, what really
drove long time air cargo pro Clive Langeveldt, Hermes Aviation President,
to World Cargo Symposium were the customers.
“We had set up a GSA Track which is actually an IATA premier
spot to bring our business into the conversation at WCS.” |
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Supply chain players in
Asia risk being late to meet the requirements of the EU’s new
air cargo security regime, which comes into force on July 1, according
to leading industry representatives.
Starting
July 1, the EU’s new rules require carriers transporting cargo
or mail into the EU from a non-EU airport to have their operations
independently |
| Vol.
13 No. 29 Monday
March
31,
2014 |
| According
to a published report Des Vertannes will leave his post as IATA
Head of Cargo in June. |
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Bill Boesch, who served as
top management at American Airlines Cargo from 1988-1998 and during
an amazing four decade-plus career on the front lines of air cargo
went on to build logistics services and save troops’ lives in
Iraq and Afghanistan, stepped center-stage with a view of our industry
and some forward thinking, as keynote speaker at the AirCargo 2014
held this week in Orlando, Florida. |
The two fisted start up of AirCargo
2014 Annual Conference held all this week in Orlando, Florida
included a deep dish encounter on Sunday March 30 in the form of a
couple hours of power with Marilyn Sherman who is both motivational
speaker and also especially interested in advancing women’s
issues. |
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Richard Malkin, the
man who invented modern air cargo journalism, has breakfast with me
in a diner near his home in Queens every two weeks.
Nearing 101 years old, Malkin is writing again; here is a link to
the most recent story that we published. |
Say Hello To My Little Friends . . . Saudia Cargo flew on the
wild side from Johannesburg (South Africa) to Riyadh (Saudi Arabia)
moving 141 animals including giraffe, kudu, hartebeest, gemsbok, impala,
springbok, blesbok and duiker to the Riyadh Zoological Garden.
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India’s interest to connect with Africa
has seen a rise. It is not that it was not there earlier, but it has,
of late, grown. The reason: trade with Africa is one-way with hardly
any exports coming into India. Air cargo stakeholders pointed out
to ACNFT that the freight prices on the India-Africa route
will continue to be on the high side simply because carriers found
the routes uneconomical. |
| Vol.
13 No. 28 Wednesday
March
26,
2014 |
| Lufthansa
Cargo held an annual rite of spring in Frankfurt this week as hosts
of a big press gathering to reveal numbers, talk about the year
gone by, and venture a look ahead at 2014.
Lufthansa Cargo also said goodbye to Karl Ulrich
Garnadt, who moves to the top position at Lufthansa Passenger next
to CEO Carsten Spohr on May 1st.
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Just prior to the
main event, its annual numbers press conference, Lufthansa Cargo
put its Perishable Center on the half shell.
“We have made the investment and have
grown our business and capabilities here in every aspect of this
business,” said Christoph Herchenhein, (left) Management
Director Perishable Center, revealing a flow chart of activities
at the center.
|
 Move over, Rube Goldberg:
Turkish Cargo connects the world in this video where each piece
(like the company) falls perfectly into place.
It’s inventive, clever, and delivers a great
message for air cargo.
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Late
last month on February 26th, IATA released the 2nd Edition of its
Cargo XML Manual and Toolkit.
Add this latest
entry to a number of manuals published by IATA, some of them well
known and recognized, such as the IATA Dangerous Goods Regulations.
Cargo XML is priced at a hefty $999 ($649 for members). |
| Vol.
13 No. 27 Wednesday
March 23,
2014 |
| (Los Angeles)
Although the May 1, 2014, deadline for Emirates SkyCargo to move
from combined freighter & belly operations at DXB to freighters
only at nearby Dubai World Central (DWC) is rapidly approaching,
Nabil Sultan, Emirates SkyCargo Divisional Senior Vice President,
is here to tell you that long before the hour strikes for the operational
split, cargo will be testing the new secure link between the gateways
to make sure everything is sorted.
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If you didn’t know Jim
Bellinder, Vice President, United Cargo Sales, was indeed a sales
guy, just put him in the middle of the presentations at any event
and watch the room come alive as he gets up and speaks his piece.
Jim is engaging to be sure, but his real strength
is the human contact he makes with the audience, whether it’s
a small group at an airport sales club or (most recently) as a
principal speaker at EMO Trans’ Annual General Meeting this
week in Puerto Rico.
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FlyingTypers spoke
with Achim Martinka, Vice President Lufthansa Cargo The Americas
regarding current developments in the Americas, which he oversees
from the Atlanta head office.
“We are satisfied with the start into this year,
which was clearly better than in 2013. But it is still too early
to say that the entire year will be good; some customers are still
skeptical. We'll see; for the time being we are moderately optimistic.
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Many who fled the
20s temperatures of Northeastern USA have found themselves suddenly
luxuriating in 80-degree weather, as soft trade winds promise days
and nights of business-laced enchantment. |
L to R— Julio
Fernandez, EMO Trans Sales Manager-LATAM/Caribbean; Rolando E. Alvarez
V, President UPCARGO, Inc.; Miguel Guardado, Director Administrative-SERCOGUA
Group; Julio Avila, Commercial Director SERCOGUA Group and Orlando
Yanez, Director General/CEO SYNCRO LOGISTICS.
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| Vol.
13 No. 26 Monday
March 17,
2014 |
| “Summer
2014 will see Aer Lingus further expand its network into the U.S.
with a new service to San Francisco,” said Peter O’Neill,
Director Cargo at Aer Lingus.
We like this guy immediately.
Not only are the Irish bringing their grand St.
Patrick’s Day Parade to New York today, but after a brutal
2013-14 winter, Peter says the right thing when he reminds us that
summer is just around the corner.
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As EMO Trans readies its 13th
Annual Meeting, which begins this week in the warmth of beautiful
San Juan, Puerto Rico, company CEO Joachim “Jo” Frigger
reports that with a few days in a warmer climate his troops can
gather themselves, compare notes, land on the same page, and get
fit for what promises to be another banner year for the company.
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The great Joseph Czyzyk,
CEO & Founder of Mercury Group Los Angeles, was present during
the “Supply Chain” track at IATA World Cargo Symposium
in Los Angeles last week to deliver some words.
Jo Frigger, CEO of EMO Trans, another self-made
man who went out and built a big international logistics company from
humble beginnings off the main runways of JFK on a street called Rockaway
Boulevard, set the table for the discussion as moderator at World
Cargo Symposium, and was followed by presentations from UPS, Intel,
and Hewlett Packard. |
At
WCS in Los Angeles last week, IATA served up a ball for the air cargo
industry to chase in that widely reported, “Call for Cut in
Transit Times” ‘initiative.’
Our
thought is that using the theme of cutting transit times as an IATA
rally at their biggest annual air cargo gathering raises even bigger
questions as |
| Vol.
13 No. 25 Wednesday
March 12,
2014 |
| May Day will be significant
in German aviation as Karl Ulrich Garnadt, (right) CEO and Chairman
of Lufthansa Cargo moves to the passenger side as Member of the
Executive Board of Deutsche Lufthansa AG and CEO of Lufthansa German
Airlines.
He succeeds Carsten Spohr, who will become Chairman
of the Executive Board and Chief Executive Officer of Lufthansa
Group, also on May 1.
Peter Gerber (left) takes up the post of CEO and
Chairman of Lufthansa Cargo AG.
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Ray Curtis (right) gets
excited about attending air cargo industry events, but when it
comes to choices he really gets worked up about show venues that
also offer an opportunity to do some good, lasting business.
So while the big thoughts this week are being
sprung and sung in Los Angeles, Delta Cargo’s vice-president
of sales muses about the gigantic Seafood Expo North America/Seafood
Processing North America.
Scheduled for Boston Convention Center March
16-18, it is the largest seafood trade event in North America.
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Eric
Garcetti, Mayor of Los Angeles
Robert D. Isom, Jr., COO, American Airlines
Fred Smith, FedEx CEO
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Live
From IATA World Cargo Symposium this week in Los Angeles, Oliver Evans,
Chief Officer Swiss World Cargo and Chairman of The International
Air Cargo Association (TIACA) will talk about a very special event:
Jacques Ancher (KLM), |
| Vol.
13 No. 24 Tuesday
March 11,
2014 |
| Jim Butler, the
relaxed, plain-speaking new President of American Airlines Cargo,
squares the ball up on the tee as World Cargo Symposium opens in
Los Angeles this week, declaring:
“I want everyone to know American Airlines
Cargo is committed to the industry.
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“We are extremely
upbeat about our new Boston service.
“From the moment we first announced plans
to connect Massachusetts to our global network, we received a
strong and positive response from travellers and our business
customers—not only in the U.S., but also in our home market
of the
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In Europe, cars more
often than not come with a standard gearbox instead of automatic.
So in the course of accelerating, one must “shift up,”
e.g. change the gears from the lowest to the highest.
If you shift up too late, your fuel consumption
goes up and your engine revs out of the optimal range, causing unnecessary
wear and tear. If, however, you shift down too late, you will not
be able to use your engine’s braking function when going downhill
or have insufficient torque when going uphill. |
Meet
Turkish Airlines Cargo’s Selcuk Gencaslan Regional Cargo Marketing
Manager the Americas and Sarper Ozpercin Regional Operations Manager
Americas as TK and the entire Turkish delegation in Los Angeles bring
news of yet another start up city in USA as Boston/Istanbul opens
May 12. |
| 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. |
|
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. |
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 |
| |
 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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