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Hello, air cargo fans.
Here is Quick Take India.Well, if you want to say Air India is keen to get back into its prime position as an international cargo player, you wouldn't be far off.
Give us a couple minutes .We give you the world.
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Here are some memories of Memorial Day yesterday & todayand some personal observations of my time in the Vietnam war zone as we prayfor peace.
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Mike White needs no introduction with our listeners.
Mike has a CV and presence in the aviation and airfreight
industry that is second to none. His tenure in CNS as
President was most inspirational for all of us.
Everybody knows Mike White: his presence is
immediate wherever he goes.
In other words when it comes to clear thinking and
realizing where we are or should be heading as an
industry:We Like Mike! S/H
The question today is that in a business that needs lots
of young executives whose attention may be drawn to
other careers, where will the next generation of air cargo
executives will come?
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Latest news from the world beating air cargo market of India.
Look back at some people who built Emirates Sky Cargo in USA and around the world.
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Los Angeles Air Cargo Association (LAACA) Air CargoDay at the Proud Bird Grand Ballroom just off the main runways takes off nextThursday May 9.
Doors open at 1100.
The air cargo event of the year at LAX goes until15:00 and is free!
Bruce McCaffrey Did Not Back Down
“The air cargo price fixing saga of 2005 was a-gas.
"A mellifluous malodorous episode in the history of aircargo”.
A story without a happy ending is recalled in 2024 aswe mark ten years since Bruce McCaffrey died February 25, 2014 at age 71 in Bradenton, Florida, from complications of renal failure.
Here are sme further thoughts and a story to not be forgot.
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In a perfect world the following words wouldjust make no sense. Yes, indeed, in a perfect world… We are talking about how much logistics, and air cargo in particular, is missing by overlooking women’s skills, but we are doing this sideways, as it is convenient at the FlyingTypers. Women’s skills can be ignored knowingly or as a habit, in any case it is a missed opportunity at best.
This is not the main concept of this Podcast,but it cannot be ignored if you wish to fully understand its content.An accomplished businesswoman speaks hereunderand teaches us a few lessons.
Make no mistake listening to Donna Mullins is a learning curve.There was so much to learn!
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It begn in February at Louisville Kentucky at Air Cargo and just ended March at Hong Kong at World Cargo Symposium. Here is an up clode and personal look at the people and business scene at air cargo trade show so far in 2024 and a peek ahead to what is next in April
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Doha, Qatar - “Qatar Airways Cargo confirms that Mark Drusch has been appointed as Chief Officer Cargo effective immediately.” This in Qatar’s Press Release: “with over 25 years in senior airline management roles, Mark is a well-known figure in the aviation world. His most recent role was SVP Revenue Management, Alliances and Strategy at Qatar Airways where he led the development and implementation of the company’s revenue strategy as well as managing strategic alliances with key partner airlines. Prior to joining Qatar Airways, Mark spent 20 years at Delta Air Lines, Continental Airlines and Lufthansa LSG Sky Chefs as Senior Vice President where he led the transformation in commercial airline strategy execution, revenue management, network planning and alliances. In addition, Mark was CEO and co-founder of e-Rewards and e-Miles, leaders in online panel research and online advertising.” In other words, we are talking of a man with a distinguished background, were it necessary to remind the public.
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If you want to learn about August Martin, the great aircargo pilot who flew for Seaboard World Airlines during the 1950’s, the name August Martin as an internet search, most often comes up as “August” 28, 1963,the day “Martin” Luther King whose birthday we celebrate Monday delivered hisnever to be forgotten “I Have A Dream,”speech at the Lincoln Memorial in Washington, D.C. August Martin was agentle man, who would be remembered in history as the first African American to serve as Captain on a U.S. scheduled flag carrier.Put another way,before “Augie” as his friends called him, there had never been a black airlinecaptain on the bridge of any U.S. airline.
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Now hear this here is the true cradle of modern air cargothinking from some airline people long gone and nearly forgotten.Once upon a time there were two giant all cargo airlinesoperating from the USA to pointsinternationally.From Los Angeles to the Pacific & Asia was Flying Tigersand from New York Across the Atlantic to Europe,Africa,the Middle East and India was Seaboard World Airlines.This is about Seaboard World Airlines and specifically some excellent people thatlearned air cargo from its people.On October 1, 1980 Seaboard World Airlines was absorbed byThe Flying Tiger Line, Inc., and on December 16, 1988 The Flying Tiger Line, Inc., was absorbed by the Federal Express Corporation.I was thinking about people in our business recentlywatching Fred Smith on TV talking air cargo.Once upon a time there was John Mahoney at Seaboard talkingair cargo.
That was 50 years ago.
Interesting that the last big time air cargo type, Smith outon the hustings commanding the widest audience of any airline executive in world history (he certainly has alsobeen on top the longest) can look back to a time when big ideas of how to air cargo came from a company he ended up buying.
Here we share some Seaboard thinking and also several directquotes from Mahoney that in 2024 although the talk is aged as we move along 50 years later at jet speed, still makes perfectly good sense.
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Talked to Bob Rogers the force behind ULD Care.
Bob is based in Hong Kong where Christmas and theNew Year was celebrated with the "usual Hong Kong enthusiasm" and of course we are only a few weeks away from doubling down with Chinese New Year as Year of the Dragon approaches asa big celebration this year.
So in January while the world takes off in 2024 is the lastmonth of the Year of the Rabbit before February on the Chinese Zodiak Calendar debuts the Year of the Dragon .
While hoping that we all still got some of good cosmic fortune left ULD Care is out with some good ideas on the subject closest to Mr. Rogers heart and as usual he is kicking the cans.
We also share some further thoughts of our friend Bill Spohrer whose passing we first reported January 8,2023.
Welcome to today's Flying Talkers!
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Return with us now to those glory days of international aviation yesteryear aboard The China Clipper.
Speed Gibson is high adventure at 10,000 feet (3,048 meters) and its range was 3,200 miles (5,150 kilometers).
Once upon time Pan Am was America's "airline to the world" and Hong Kong was mysterious and aviation and short wave radio were the way to go and tell the story.
Speed Gibson of the International Secret Police was a radio adventure series written by Virginia Cooke. It was centered on the adventures of Speed Gibson, a fifteen-year-old pilot who, through his uncle Clint Barlow, becomes a member of the International Secret Police.
Our gift to you just for fun.
Happy New Year and best wishes for a great 2024 from your frinds at Flying Talkers -
One From The Heart Here we take a deep dive right out of the gate as 2024 debuts into Alitalia and Italian air cargo.
We also recall learning for sure of two fave books in the private library of Pope John Paul 11 .
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One of the joys of Summer, aside from the beach and theBeach Boys’ Good Vibrationsand warmed up weather and outside get-togethers is cruising along with all ofthe same, during August, on a long, slow languorous glide, like the water rideat Palisade’s Park into September. No need to rush, we have time.
Speaking of cruising there seems to be a lot of that goingon right now. No need to blush either, boy: we have some other game in mind… Theword cruising as well as the world of cruising hold some glamour, in particularin summer, although I can hardly imagine climbing aboard any ship with severalthousand people onboard these days or doing anything unexpected now that we areall so much older and wiser, after COVID especially, right?
Elsewhere the pencil and the sword, thin river-boats ofViking Cruises all over Europe hold some allure even here in North America, butthey seem to be less daunting, a bit more manageable today than they would havein Lindisfarne about 1000 years ago. We are telling a tale of swift developmentin logistics and industry, far from battle and invasion.
Great that YouTube and Amazon Prime TV here in the USA havepicked up the narrow-boat phenomenon going on in the UK.
Small boats, in fact barges of historical nature, carryingmostly coal in the past, are a history lesson in cargo transportation in theland where you can ply the over 4,000 miles of canals and imagine how thesewaterways and former tow paths sparked the Industrial Revolution, the VictorianEra and in fact were key in making Great Britain a world power.
Actually the Thames remains today an antidote to London’sstifling traffic for some selected operators and as much as London, Amsterdamand New York have shaped global trade in the last four centuries, both grandand mean, depending… there are still so many smaller details in the waterwaysof Anglia that their full story cannot be entirely told.
For me especially, during the Dog Days with heavy rain here inNew York City recently, confined indoors by the weather, watching a You Tubesponsored series titled “Travels by Narrowboat” for a couple of sessions wasinformative and fun.
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Where do we go from here? Best Bets Smart advice.You decide...
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As Air Cargo Europe finally meets this week with people gathering from all over the world in Munich, the outstanding development since last we met is the emergence of a company branded PayCargo.
PayCargo is the brain child of Cuban-born Eduardo del Riego, who came to the United States of America as a child and embraced the American Dream. What Eduardo did was invent a well-funded, top financial service company head and shoulders above any we have ever seen, that delivers air and sea cargo flexible and totally reliable financial services solutions.
PayCargo is not only sweeping the nation and in just a few short years has become the best and most favored way to pay quickly and efficiently; right now PayCargo is expanding taking hold all over the world.
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LogiPharma was held April 25-27 in Lyon, France at Palais des congrès de Lyon. The event was slick well-organized and interesting, full of heavy duty business, and lots of people and action at a great venue. If you want to know where many of the airlines looking for business and new horizons post COVID were, they were in France discovering that engaging the pharma in 2023 is good over there, Pierre!
"One From The Heart" recalls the life and times of our friend, the late Joachim Frigger.
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The theme for International Women’s Month this year is “Celebrating Women Who Tell Our Stories.”
Who better to represent air cargo during International Women’s Month 2023 than Tulsi Nowlakha Mirchandaney, who is celebrating over five decades in air cargo. Tulsi is Managing Director and Accountable Manager of Blue Dart Aviation and is our lead off story as we launch Women’s Month 2023.
Blue Dart is based in Chennai, Tamil Nadu, India and serves 7 Indian metro cities. Deutsche Post owns a 70% stake in the airline through its subsidiary Blue Dart Express. Blue Dart operates a fleet of 6 B757-200 freighters to leading India cities.
“The only constant in my 28 years here,” Tulsi said unhesitatingly, “has been the enduring passion and resilience of the people who make up this amazing industry, and who have helped it grow and evolve through decades of varied challenges and turbulence”.
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Fruit and vegetable lovers will be 'loving it up' at Berlin’s Annual Fruit Logistica all this week at the massive Berlin ExpoCenterCity and CityCube in Germany, February 8-10, 2023.
It may come as a shock to some shippers to learn that one of the biggest challenges to safe handling of lithium batteries or lithium anything is the paperwork.
Enter an IATA-initiative branded Center of Excellence for Independent Validators (CEIV), a process that now can assure auditing the action and providing confidence for lithium battery shipping.
Created by IATA Cargo in 2021, Qatar Airways and its global handler Qatar Aviation Services just received certification of the duo’s outstanding ongoing handling of lithium battery shipments.
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A Billion Here a Billion There . . . Remember the Price-Fixing Air Cargo Surcharges scandal that rocked the global air cargo industry in late 2010 when in Europe for example 11 legacy carriers were found guilty after Lufthansa and Swiss threw everybody under the bus and elsewhere got immunity, as eager prosecutors in countries around the world handed out fines?
On again, off again, the case has continued for the past dozen years. In America and elsewhere once young lawyers looking to make political or law careers have entered middle age and still may still file an appeal.
Well, while you were putting your kids through Grade School, High School & most of College if you have been (happily) married, (we hope so) for that long, the airlines have been fighting the price-fixing fines.
Now apparently, finally Air France /KLM beat the rap on December 20, 2022, and were issued an annulment for their €3.9 million fine according to Linklaters (www.Linkaters.com)
I sat down at a favorite watering hole The Oyster Bar in Grand Central Station in New York City with the late Bruce McCaffrey the lifetime Qantas Cargo USA hand who ran North & South America and masterminded the Qantas Freight West Imperial cargo transfer facility at LAX, after he was thrown under the bus by Qantas.
It was 2008 .
In ill health, bowed but not broken, Bruce died a few years later.
Recently Air France /KLM beat the"Price fixing" rap on December 20, 2022 joining a growing list of airlines, and were issued an annulment for their €3.9 million fine according to Linklaters (www.Linkaters.com).
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