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Best airport air cargo marketing effort of 21st came last year when IAH delivered new perishables facility as "Houston Fresh Air Cargo".

Most innovative airline cargo product launch during past decade goes to Continental Airlines Cargo for "Mona" perishables in 2009.

Is EMO Trans the best medium sized logistics company in the business? Say yes to that proposition and you get no argument from us.
    From nowhere a decade ago, EMO is innovating itself on a global scale with new offices as others downsize.
    The company that is bigger than most- but yet feels attentive and close to the product and customer like many Mom & Pop outfits that actually built much of air cargo—has even found the time to publish not one, but two of what are supposed to be annual cookbooks wherein EMO company stalwarts share menu recipes configured to bring dining ideas to busy transportation executives.
    Must be a recipe for success in there somewhere.

Female management leads the way in 21 Century as Heide Enfield, (left)Director Marketing
Lufthansa Charter
innovates marketing as leadership goes from Fink to Hunziker (video) at the agency.

Most dynamic 21st century top airport executive Michelle Soliman leads RAK Intl (UAE) that will be a mega aircargo deal when normal returns.

Best 21 century example of top cargo boss paying it forward as Bill Boesch former top AA Cargo teaches logistics in Iraq and Afghan theater to troops charged with getting vital supplies to the troops there.

Most shocking loss of last decade was the sudden death of TSA Cargo Chief Ed Kelly last month reportedly from Legionnaires after attending Air Cargo Americas last November in Miami, Florida.

Up Close & Personal
Michelle Soliman
Manager
Ras Al Khaimah Airport

Bill Boesch

Ed Kelly

Aleks Popovich

Most important air cargo leader that nobody heard of in 2000 is IATA Head of Cargo Aleks Popovich who got upped to top money man at that organization in late 2009. But lucky for air cargo in a time of working harder (often for less) Aleks will hang around IATA Cargo awhile longer including up to World Cargo Symposium coming March 2010 in Vancouver.

Best helping hand of last & new decade is IATA Cargo as a resource for industry stakeholders via CNS & World Cargo Symposium Annuals.

Ralf Auslaender
leisure Cargo

Best new idea that no one else has approached, was Ralf Auslaender having emerged from the school of cargo experience in Germany and then taking a good look at tourist-based airlines that could care less about freight and launching leisure cargo while atop the cargo heap at carrier LTU in 2000.
Now part of Air Berlin, leisure handles the cargo fortunes of some 18 carriers (the list gains and contracts regularly as things change) who have discovered that their dreams of some cash flow from below deck can be had whilst full attention is paid to core business upstairs.

Michael A. Chowdry, a Pakistani-American who founded Atlas Air in 1992, died piloting his plane with reporter Jeff Cole (WSJ). Somehow Mike’s wife Linda piloted Atlas through the tragedy and can be remembered as the first female to both head a cargo airline and save the company.

Best new commercial passenger jet of the decade to enter service was A380 as Emirates opened a link between Dubai and New York. B787 that test flew as lights faded on 2009 promises to be a huge game changer as new decade begins.

TWA flew into history in 2001 after 70 years then America West, Midway, Vanguard and Independence Air disappeared. NWA gone 1/01/10.

Saddest, most terrible story of past decade was 9/11 in New York as World Trade Center was destroyed by terrorists followed by global turmoil, losses and bankruptcies in aviation that continue today.

Emotional goodbye of the decade to all of us who loved them were the final flights of the Concorde SSTs. In an industry used to new frontiers from 80 plus years loss of SST although long coming felt like somebody had turned a light out.

Most heroic story in aviation of past decade was "Miracle on Hudson" USA Airways Airbus A320 that landed on the water and everyone lived.

Most covered aviation stories worldwide of past decade were fuel and fees.

Top USA aviation stories of past decade were JetBlue launch and Southwest becoming a mega airline. In Europe, Ryanair’s growth and consolidations including SWISS, Austrian, and Sabena into Lufthansa eclipsed KLM takeover of AF.

Maria Muller departed Hahn Cargo in 2007 to lead Rostock Airport as first female airport manager in Germany and was never heard from again . . . and alas.

First issue of Air Cargo News FlyingTypers appears with a story about Dave Brooks and how American Airlines works to avoid bankruptcy post 9/11.
Published to less than 1,000 circulation in 2001, today with more than 34,000 each issue, published 144 times yearly, as we approach our 10th anniversary— Air Cargo News FlyingTypers web based solution for 21st century green air cargo publications have vaulted our media to number one, most read in the world.

Some people no longer with us since 2000 but recalled forever include Richard Jackson,Vincent Pannullo, Siegfried "Siggi" Koehler, Geoff Bridges, Thor Kjartansson, Helmuth F. Klumpp, Danny Ferrante, Kevin J. Lanigan, George Batchelor, Ron Cesana, Ray Hagen, Walter Johnson, Carlos Uebele, John Emery Jr., Gerry Kash and Bill DeCota. Also recalled are Dick Connors, Frank Fine, Michael Zolnierowicz.
Geoffrey Arend