TIACA Air Cargo Forum apparently is still planning its Miami, Florida debut with Messe München organizing the event, and a couple of industry publication partners handling sales, for November 10-11, undaunted by the global COVID-19 pandemic that once again is sweeping across Florida. In early July looking over the event website, at the booked booths reveals (minus a small army of publications) maybe 30 exhibitors, but less than a half dozen airlines. Our view is TIACA/Messe München should be pos...
Jul 12, 2020•31 min
EMO Trans Stands Against Racism “With the current events concerning racism and its effect on our daily lives it is time to clearly state which side we are on,” declares Joachim Frigger EMO Trans Chairman. Read All About It "How To Be An Antiracist" Published in 2019, the book "How to Be an Antiracist" by Ibram X. Kendi is a necessary read as 2020 moves full steam ahead. Christmas In June . . . Spinning the numbers—things may be looking up? Why Baseball Matters Today July 4th, The New York Yankee...
Jul 04, 2020•33 min
Air India has been operating charter flights between USA and India to repatriate its citizens who have been held up getting back home by travel restrictions caused by the COVID-19 pandemic, but it has also been selling tickets to the public. USA Department of Transportation (DOT) says the Indian government and regulator Directorate General of Civil Aviation (DGCA) have not allowed US airlines to operate same kind of flights to India, creating what DOT termed “a competitive disadvantage for US ca...
Jun 29, 2020•23 min
Italy was sitting in the middle of the biggest pandemic in 100 years, when we spoke to Antonella Straulino , Francesco Parisi, Massimo Roccasecca and Jean-Claude Delen about the events happening around us on 11th of March. It was just before the “Ides of March” 2020 and COVID19 was already ravaging the country and the continent, but the shocking numbers that were gradually becoming apparent had not reached the levels that scared us later on. Italy had just entered the harshest lockdown in its re...
Jun 22, 2020•21 min
While most of the conversation lately has centered on what the world of airlines,forwarders and other players in air cargo will look like moving ahead here are some thoughts from Dan Muscatello an expert in airport Cargo and Logistics strategy and planning. Dan brings an impressive portfolio of more than 40 years of experience, in both the public and private sectors. He has been a development strategist for both the business and physical facility planning of air cargo complexes, and the integrat...
Jun 15, 2020•19 min
With all of the difficulties people are facing in our industry these days , here is some great and hopeful news. Jessica Tyler, will assume the role as President of American Airlines Cargo. The announcement expected in a few days will see Rick Elieson current AA Cargo President capping a three- year tour of dramatic change for cargo at the carrier moving on to work his magic for AAs frequent flier program. Jessica Tyler it should be mentioned will be the first woman President in the 76-year hist...
Jun 08, 2020•19 min
Pay Me My Money Down “COVID-19 has undoubtedly changed our lives for the foreseeable future, with those who are fortunate to still be employed now having to adjust to changes such as working from home, managing teams and completing daily activities remotely,” said Lionel van der Walt CEO of Pay Cargo. “In an industry that until now has still been dominated by many manual paper-based processes, this is no mean feat. Count the Money “One very important issue that COVID-19 has brought to the forefr...
Jun 03, 2020•25 min
How about we extend a quarantine forever on the slew of meaningless air cargo award events? We have been thinking about awards as the air cargo award party bonanza threatens to begin anew post pandemic after this global COVID-19 lockup ends. Face it, the day for those under value bow-tie dinners that basically fill the coffers of sponsoring publications and organizations is over. As the world celebrates air cargo, moving all manner of PPE and other consignments aboard otherwise grounded passenge...
May 21, 2020•34 min
“The COVID-19 Pandemic has challenged us at this point on a sustained level as no time in history, but in our line of work we have remained flexible and kept our team on point to be both inventive and to be in close touch with our airline partners. “The best surprise is no surprise so our top priority is transparency every step of the way before, during and after the lockdown. “I am very impressed with the flexibility of our team to work remotely and also the support of our service partners in s...
May 15, 2020•28 min
Here for the COVID-19 world during Mid May 2020 , we offer the opinion of where we are as an air cargo industry and where we are likely to land from some people who are thankfully involved in one way or another and still have it going on as thought leaders. While everybody is masking up to go outside, elsewhere others are attempting to unmask just what our transportation world might look like in the future. One determined freight forwarder, EMO Trans Chairman Joachim “Jo” Frigger, insists that “...
May 12, 2020•30 min
When you think about it, the Coronavirus has advanced our imagination more in the past few weeks than in several generations since the Berlin Airlift of 1948 first advanced the notion of what air cargo might accomplish. As example, Airbus said last week that it is looking at a system for removal of passenger seats and loading of cargo directly onto main deck cabin floors. Given the prospect of a slow return of the passenger business, can cargo and passengers co-inhabiting the same deck be far be...
May 04, 2020•26 min
There is another trait that Italy and India have in common: a sort of fatalism in life, mingled with fortitude, pride, hyperbole and endurance. This is the recipe of so many Italian operas, including one that has never been written. Those who read the New York Times may have heard of the royal family of Oudh Virgin To Tel Aviv/ Qatar Down Under / Pasi to Finnair Remembering Jack Zembeck
Apr 27, 2020•28 min
Jan Krems is President of United Cargo and with inspirational leadership and no small amount of spirit and élan has propelled United Cargo into the top USA combination carrier position in air cargo. The payoff right now is that the United air cargo program is adding up as the major revenue driver for the entire airline. Turns out Jan who was born in the Netherlands where shirts are sold with the sleeves already rolled up, lost no time as the COVID-19 pandemic swept across the world, energizing h...
Apr 21, 2020•27 min
There is something instantly compelling and so wonderfully appealing in a widely circulated picture of Virgin Atlantic people, cabin crew and all, in face masks moving some medical supplies on an all-cargo VS flight from PVG to LHR last Friday April 3. It’s about the culture of the business we are in and the people that touch us (from a proper social distance) every day. Forwarders Get No Respect In USA, FlyingTypers learned that as many as 30 or more small freight forwarding companies have gone...
Apr 06, 2020•24 min
In USA and elsewhere in the world now feeling the sting of the deadly COVID-19 virus that some poor unfortunate and most probably innocent people in Wuhan, Hubei Province China unleashed on the world, there is growing apprehension that what is unknown about the pandemic continues to out- pace any true understanding of the virus. Amidst latest reports that possibly a virus lab located just three miles from that wet market where the Chinese Communist Party claims the COVID-19 Pandemic originated f...
Apr 01, 2020•21 min
If you are wondering what happens next, once the world moves past the COVID-19 pandemic, then you might consider the passenger airlines serving as cargo carriers right now. They are thrusting our industry forward as a powerhouse of the new economy. Not since The Berlin Airlift in 1949, has there been so much global attention directed toward air cargo. At home, working 12 hours a day Pumping Traffic? Those other people that occasionally appear are waiting to be engaged into your new life. Go into...
Mar 28, 2020•40 min
As COVID-19 has shut down Italy talking of what is happening on the ground in Italian logistics right now opens the door for a conversation with some hardworking freight forwarders. Despite the shut down everywhere else, the logistics industry is open for business in Italy as you hear this update. As the COVID-19) pandemic story continues to unfold, EMO Trans said that the global company is stepping up to find solutions and keeping business moving for the stability of the global economy. “EMO Tr...
Mar 22, 2020•20 min
The China COVID-19 pandemic that exited Wuhan and blanketed the Earth causing unbelievable pain and suffering almost everywhere , has also brought one undeniable fact forward to the population at large, no matter what else happens come hell or high water ,air cargo always flies. USA President Donald Trump designated last Sunday, March 15, a National Day of Prayer for everyone in the path of COVID-19. Here, we share our prayers for you. If there is one thing apparent as the China pandemic rampage...
Mar 21, 2020•19 min
FlyingTalkers learned that the Annual FIATA Headquarters Sessions in Zurich, scheduled for March 24-28 2020 have been cancelled and will not be rescheduled. “This decision,” new FIATA Director General Stephane Graber said “is being taken because of recent impact of the COVID-19 contagion in Italy, and now in Switzerland. “FIATA is mindful as to its duty of care to its membership and has taken this action due to uncertainty, as governments attempt to contain the continued spread of the COVID-19 i...
Feb 28, 2020•20 min
In a time of fear and misinformation some folks who are attending Air Cargo India spoke up with candor that we can all appreciate. COVID-19 may have dampened air freight growth across the world, but a sold- out Air Cargo India February 25-27, 2020 being held in Mumbai offers a networking venue so that all might get a better handle on exactly where air cargo is heading this year.
Feb 23, 2020•18 min
We hear lots of stories of an effect, since the Wuhan China Coronavirus impacted the world. Looking around air cargo for a sense of the mood, whilst cancellations of flights and services has surely impacted trade shows and events all over Asia, we detect no lack of heart or sympathy for the plight of people in China right now. Just this week Qatar Airways has volunteered free air cargo transportation for medical relief aid organized by Chinese embassies and consulates worldwide to fight the coro...
Feb 13, 2020•26 min
Just when all across USA, everyone was watching The Super Bowl in Miami last Sunday, the U.S. Air forwarders Association held their annual event in Nashville Tenn. As the first event of the long conference agenda for cargo that will continue all over the world almost every month in 2020, AfA gets the gold ring, out of the gate, for tenacity and heart. This is truly the air cargo event "for everybody else." Here is an exclusive first-hand report from Donna Mullins featuring her impressions of the...
Feb 04, 2020•22 min
Jan Krems, President of United Cargo, is ready for take-off in 2020. Jan Krems at United Cargo is compelling and simply irresistible. Right now, despite the challenges and the gloom and doom predicted, United Cargo, while not immune by any means to these economic trends, continues to outperform everyone else in the U.S. air cargo business. It is almost as if the stars lined up above Willis Tower at the Chicago headquarters for United Cargo. As 2020 begins with the glimmer of a rebound in busines...
Jan 27, 2020•23 min
ATC is new GSSA for Alitalia in Germany effective last week on January 15,2020. Ingo Zimmer is the immensely appealing, always approachable top flight executive at ATC that has sculpted a worldwide growing organization with a cadre of truly professional air cargo executives, plus an emerging impressive array of young talent. Most people in air cargo transportation know Lionel van der Walt for the time he served as President of Cargo Network Services (CNS). A short term perhaps, but it was Lionel...
Jan 20, 2020•22 min
When FedEx let go of a reported $900 million annual business package with Amazon last year, eyebrows were raised. Now finally admitting what most everybody else already knew, that Amazon is indeed a competitor, Fred Smith is at work rebuilding the overnight service that he invented. “Air Cargo export numbers from USA were a genuine roller coaster ride during 2019,” reports Mike White President of Cargo Network services (CNS). “CNS CASS numbers through November 2019 reflects the U.S. government a...
Jan 14, 2020•19 min
Here we debut a new Podcast allowing us to leverage our nearly 50 years covering the airline industry. Presented for a more relaxed time of the week, these stories will be shared on Saturdays and be aimed at our abiding interest in the wider experience we all share, working and serving in the transportation industry. Our first Saturday Bulldog Edition here follows two, pioneering, smart and tough sisters in a place, that despite the passing years remains somewhat remote, while retaining what is ...
Jan 11, 2020•16 min•Season 2Ep. 2
Happy New Year! Here we get back to work sharing the views of people that make the global logistics industry go for our 45th consecutive year. Today Flying Typers is the longest continually published industry media source under the same ownership and Publisher/Editor in the history of air cargo. But what will happen in 2020? After a less than memorable 2019 it seems everybody is looking for answers. Will this new decade be the “Roaring 20’s” or as we celebrate Chinese Lunar New Year later this m...
Jan 09, 2020•20 min•Season 2Ep. 1
For the second straight year, United Cargo teamed with nonprofit Wreaths Across America and CEVA Logistics to ship live, Maine-made balsam fir holiday wreaths to Europe. The wreaths traveled from United hubs in IAD, IAH and EWR to AMS for the December 1 event at the Netherlands American Cemetery in Margraten. President Truman said that the only news is history you don’t know. Maybe the best argument for continually paying attention to history, is so that we might learn from what we missed. the s...
Dec 27, 2019•14 min
The year 2019 will be remembered at Turkish Cargo as a year-long transition whilst the brand continued to build through major investments and expansion of destinations, among other factors. Just four months after Cathay Pacific's chief executive resigned, Hong Kong Airlines, the city's third largest carrier, is hanging onto its license by its finger nails due to a financial crisis, and is being allowed to survive now with government help. It’s happening all over the world. As Christmas 2019 appr...
Dec 09, 2019•19 min
The International Air Cargo Association (TIACA) named Issa Baluch into its Hall of Fame in a ceremony to be held this Wednesday evening in Budapest Hungary. Mr. Baluch’s daughter Sarah will accept the award on behalf of her father. There have been Hall of Fame inductees for the past 21 years at TIACA including many of the greats of air cargo including Bill Boesch, Jacques Ancher, Ram Menen and Robert Arendal. Bob Arendal by the way was the first inductee in the modern era. He went into the Hall ...
Nov 18, 2019•14 min
