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   Vol. 14  No. 70
Wednesday September 2, 2015

JD's Small Hotel in Paradise

Saudia Back To The Future

    It’s a long way from the cargo ramps of Dnata at Dubai to a glorious part of the Philippines, and it’s certainly a dream to build and operate a small hotel on that island paradise, but that is exactly what Jean-Pierre (JD) De Pauw has done and to look at the finished product, he managed to do it just right, as far as we can tell.
    People in the business have uttered the wish that “some day I am going to put air cargo behind me and open a saloon or a small hotel” for as long as we have been on the beat.
     But JD, who sat with us a couple years ago, mapped out a plan and did it, after retiring from a career as a top executive—first at FedEx and then building Dnata Cargo at DXB.
     And he didn’t do it by himself, either.
     MayLaka is a small boutique hotel and restaurant JD (originally from Machelen-Brabant, Belgium) and his wife Gina (a native from Bunga-Cabucgayan, Biliran) have worked to create for several decades as expatriates from their respective countries and jobs.
     Now they are innkeepers and restaurateurs living in MayLaka in Barangay Catmon in Naval, Biliran.
    “I am now a retired old man living the beach bum life in the Philippines.
     “MayLaka is completed and we opened up last month,” JD said.
     “It’s a very exciting yet quite relaxing life after air cargo, although I cannot say we might not talk some old times when someone familiar washes up here.
     “Still reading your FlyingTypers, you know,” JD said.
http://www.maylaka.com/
Geoffrey

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