leisure's Auslaender Wins Top Award

     Recent word that fast rising leisure cargo is forging ahead with its just announced arrangement to handle sales, service and everything air cargo for Air Asia will springboard into fast forward at the point the carrier “extends its line service into Shenzhen, China,” said leisure managing director Ralf Rainer Auslaender.
    “The China connection via Air Asia is key to our strategy for extending our virtual airline service.”
    Mr. Auslaender commented as FlyingTypers presented the air cargo executive with its first Air Cargo Executive of the Year Award in Frankfurt, Germany.
    In presenting the Award, FlyingTypers Publisher noted that, “Ralf Auslaender has made a unique and ongoing contribution to air cargo by inventing and implementing the idea of the virtual cargo carrier by creating a viable cargo business among carriers that are either tour-based or discount carriers with no air cargo department.”
    “Ralf is a pioneer of a new form of business in the airline industry.
    “He is a genuine original who deserves recognition for his imagination, hard work and ongoing success.”
    A brief ceremony was held Tuesday, July 10 beneath the original “Bird of Peace” sitting atop a globe of the world that once served as the central theme icon of the original Frankfurt International Airport from the early 1930s until the late 1950s, outside the main passenger terminal.
    Today the bird is in a place of pride in a garden courtyard of the InterCity Hotel near Cargo City Süd at Fraport.
    Elsewhere leisure just launched its cargo services on Air Berlin via Düsseldorf, Berlin and Nuremburg into Moscow.
    “The regular line flights have been in operation for the past three years but now we can carry cargo,” Ralf Auslaender said.
    “Next on the list of Russian cities we would like to add air cargo into is St. Petersburg,” the executive added.
    About the FlyingTypers Award, Mr. Auslaender said:
    “We are especially proud to be recognized in this manner.
    “leisure cargo is staffed by people that are very service oriented to deliver value for money to our customers.
    “Our people are entrepreneurial and are encouraged to seek solutions and options for situations on a case by case basis.
    “There is no “one size fits all” requisite at leisure cargo.
    “We rededicate ourselves to the task at hand to be the very best air cargo resource in the months and years ahead.”
    The FlyingTypers Awards are announced at various times during the year as the only internationally recognized honorariums to specifically acknowledge individual effort in air cargo.