RE: Great One-Day Cargo Meet At JFK

Dear Geoffrey,

     Thanks for the great coverage of the JFK Air Cargo Association’s Expo 2017 in yesterday’s FlyingTypers.
     I would also like to thank you, on behalf of our board, for the kind things you found to say about our organization.
     Lastly, thanks for the coverage and updates on two of my former leaders and mentors, Jan Meurer and Mr. Jacques Ancher.
     I owe both a huge debt of gratitude for having been given the opportunity to be an integral part of their management teams and organization.
     With great appreciation and sincerity,

Best regards,
Joe B.
Joseph Badamo
Vice President Sales, the Americas
Silk Way Airlines

From left: Geoffrey & Sabiha Arend with Jacques Ancher and “Wild Thing” Jan Meurer, together for the first time in Istanbul as Jacques joined the air cargo immortals in the TIACA Hall of Fame on April 28, 2014. For More on Jacques Ancher, please click here. For More on Jan Meurer, please click here.

Dear Joe,

     We have the greatest respect and admiration for the job you do giving back for the betterment of the industry not only in New York, the greatest city in the world, but to air cargo everywhere.
     People like you, Ryan, Jim, and the rest make all of us look good.
     Hope to see you soon,

Geoffrey

Dear Geoffrey,
 
     A small picture in today’s FlyingTypers triggered my interest.
     George Paetow is in a photo line (far right).
     Is the man still alive?
     He treated me quite kindly when I first came to New York on board the inaugural flight of Austrian in 1968!
     I was a cargo salesman for Austrian at that time and was promoted to Cargo Manager of Austrian Airlines later.
     I would like to extend my best regards to him, and I guess he would remember me.

Best Regards,
Uwe Glaser
President
Cargomind GmbH
Cargo Building, Sector 7
1300 Vienna
Austria

Dear Uwe,

     Thanks so much for writing.
     I met George (who I regret to tell you left us more than 20 years ago), when he was the top U.S. manager for Air India Cargo, responsible for a growing air cargo business based at JFK International Airport.
     He was soft spoken, analytical, and always quite helpful, but right down to business.
     George taught me quite a bit about air cargo alongside his assistant at the time, Frank Sclafani.
     Later, Frank would rise to a top post at Eastern Airlines Cargo after George retired.
     George spent his remaining years teaching transportation at a local college here in New York.
     You meet lots of people in this life. George is always revisited in memory as one of the greats in air cargo. He loved aviation from his younger days, when he served in the Luftwaffe, and moved into a brilliant air cargo career, capping a life well lived as a teacher and sharing what he knew with future generations.
     Thanks, Uwe, for bringing back those memories.

Geoffrey