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Baby It’s Cold Outside But not for these high fliers from Air India outfitted in Manish Malhotra-designed uniforms. Here warming this up considerably Air India people made waltzing through Manhattan look easy as the Indian airline launched services via its candy dandy brand new A350s from Newark to New Delhi January 2.

Hi I am Flying Typers Executive Editor Flossie Arend.Every year around this time, we struggle to find new words to offer to our loyal Flying Talkers Broadcast listeners. I am not immune to the warm responses inspired by our annual Christmas story, and I would be posturing if I said it doesn’t feel good to know it is so well received. However, the pressure mounts to say something new; to not rehash the things you already know; to provide some meaningful insight into our holiday gathering.      You know we are a family business in an age when most companies yearn to proclaim that simply for the feel-good cachet it affords them. People love a good legacy story. We are about to celebrate our 50th anniversary as a publishing force in air cargo and no, you can’t put a price on that. In a world where everything has been commodified, you still can’t buy time or experience.

Express Yourself At Christmas 2024 … Welcome to Flying Talkers Broadcast. We loved looking at a picture we just received from Paris France Express Cargo that among other efforts serves 17 African destinations via Tunis Express imagines a care free Christmas delivery creating a “look up into the sky” moment. Here with all good wishes, International Air Transport Association tells its tale and  Air Forwarders Association Brandon Fried joins The International Air Cargo Association’s Glyn Hughes, and some others, as we put a big red bow on the final month of 2024. Deep in December its nice to remember, but also we think even nicer to say thank you dear readers-while wishing God Bless us all, everyone! As we look ahead we wish all Happy New Year 2025.  

Here is a Great Lady of Air Cargo India . You dear listener are invited to take a 12 minute break and enjoy someone who in addition to helping to build ATC -Aviation into the premier choice for GSSA in India.is also a complete original. Her name is Jane Vaz and what she does for women in air cargo and for the air cargo community of India is simply wonderful.

Welcome to today’s Flying Talkers Broadcast……. We are here to tell you today FlyingTypers was delighted to attend the Air Cargo Forum 2024 in Miami, which admittedly was built to be more than an exhibition. The promise was fulfilled, no doubt….. We will have more after this brief time out that brings word from today’s sponsor…..  Pay Cargo.

Merry Christmas! Love Santa Making Merry and when Merry gets tired Santa flies off in the left seat of a C-46. Who is the lead..Rudy?

Summer Tales Am a crazy New York Yankees baseball fan and seldom miss one of the 161 games they play each summer.But my ability to watch those boys of summer games on TV hit a glitch until a kind lady named Jennifer Vivas who works for YES The Yankees Entertainment &Sports Network both assuaged my fears, and found my signal and sent it to me.So I sat right down and wrote her a letter now shared here with a bit of LaGuardia Airport history

Return with us now to yesteryear ....As we approach another anniversary of that terrible day The National September 11,(2001) Memorial & Museum leads the nation, and the world, in marking the the day that changed our lives forever. The 23nd anniversary commemoration ceremony will take place next week in Manhattan at the WTC Memorial Plaza, focused as always on an in-person reading of the names of the 3000 souls lost in the tragedy, by family members and friends who like all of us will never forget. But what of the people that were inside that somehow made it to the outside and live on today? Our friend and head air cargo guy for Port Authority of New York & New Jersey is one of those people. Today Jim Larsen who was ex Seaboard World Cargo when he became the second and so far greatest most innovative airport cargo executive you ever met lives quietly by himself in Lakehurst New Jersey about an hour from New Yok City. But on that bright beautiful day September 11 and 08:00 he sat down inside Tower One,

The airline & the people and the airline that planted a giant Redwood Tree At Schiphol Cargo in Amsterdam may be gone, but here both are fondly remembered. Sometimes what cargo does together can grow everyone's situation for the better, is the message here nearly 55 years later.

As Summer 2024 Reruns continues here from 2023 we remembered our dear friend and business colleague Jo Frigger who died April 19, 2021. Today as before this 50 years plau business in USA continues as a family affair ,headed up by Chairwoman Karin Frigger, VP Compliance Sven Frigger and VP Digital Transformation Jenni Frigger.

From April 11 , 2022 Amar More founder and powerful force in the world today from Kale Logistics Solutions of India lays out his plan ,with innovative ideas and clear creative thinking that have withstood the test of time. Now in Summer 2024 Kale is growing by leap and bounds worldwide. It’s simple : The Kale Solution eliminates paper and keeps cargo moving faster. Here we go up close and personal so you can listen and learn all about it!  Later join Joe McBryan Founder and Canadian air cargo pioneer of Buffalo Airways in Yellow Knife. Ice Pilots on television immortalized this guy but his family and love of what he does keeps the story coming with a wide variety exciting airplanes from out of aviation’s past. Hang onto your hats!

From January 9 2024 we launch or "Summer Reruns " with a look at the pioneer ACMI individual of all time Mike Chowdry who took that form into the big time. We aalso mention some greats still among us in air cargo so you should not spend your summer stuck in the past. Welcome aboard.

In December 2020 as the world held it's breath under the global threat of the deadly infecting COVID-19 , came the air cargo industry leading the way in delivering the antidote to millions. Based on the job air cargo did for getting COVID vaccine to people all over the world the great expectation based on general knowledge amongst the masses was that maybe finally our industry and particularly the USA would embrace wider spread induction of freighters. One executive in 2020 actually called for closer look at freighters.His name is Bill Boesch. This is his story from our pages and the edition of Flying Talkers dated December 14,2020 when hopes ran high as vaccine deliveries began in earnest. As we revisit that story here ,alas in 2024 the conversation so far all year long at air cargo industry gatherings has bounced back between sustainabiity and digitalization. Bill Boesch for freighters echo's and re-echo's the words of the true main deck advocate in air cargo, now most notably lacking in number

As India inches closer to the ambitious target of 10MMT of air cargo handled per year by 2030, one question that is being asked is: Why are there so few freighter operators from India? One of the major reasons is the high belly capacity available in India. Around 80 percent of cargo traffic is carried on passenger aircraft. Today, Blue Dart apart, there are only a handful of freighters carrying the India flag. August 15 brings a great golf tourney as the 19th Annual Dan Ferrante gathering takes place at JFK International Airport.

In The Lav of a DC9 With Donald Trump When Donald Trump bought the old Eastern Airlines Shuttle, that had served Boston and Washington with hourly flights, he came to LaGuardia Airport to launch the newly branded Trump Shuttle, in the form of an old DC9 that waited quietly outside at the gate bound for Washington. The Donald stood at the check-in gate greeting the press. I was there as the Trump Shuttle flak came to my office at Air Cargo News FlyingTypers in the Marine Air Terminal and asked me to attend the event. "Look I need numbers, maybe we could comp you to stay a few days on us at The Trump Taj Mahal AC in Atlantic City that he owns!" I said we don't gamble but took sympathy and jumped aboard the airport bus to the main terminal. Something good for LGA and New York City was the larger calling during those days.

Sometimes things happen that change everything. The first flight, the first Tesla electric car, the first cup of Starbucks coffee. Here from 2023, the rarest of up close and personal interview with Eduardo Del Riego, CEO of PayCargo. Eduardo and his team from Coral Gables, Florida have changed the way to pay shipping cargo forever, all over the world. This interview created in April 2023 laid out the PayCargo plan that has succeeded way beyond what many people thought possible. Many,that is with the notable exception of the erstwhile Eduardo Del Riego! Mr. Del Riego began his career with Crowley Maritime starting inoperations, then sales, to line management running Crowley's Dominican Service from Jacksonville. In 1984 he left Crowley to start EDR International, Inc. (EDRII) partnering with Southern Steam, Inc. with franchise for Florida and Caribbean. In 1992 upon sale of the company to Inchcape Shipping of London, Mr. Del Riego remained with the company through 1994 heading the Latin America Divisiosion

It’s Summer Dog Days and time when cargo people and their organizations kick back a bit, almost everywhere in the world by taking one for the team at various golf and social events outside the daily grind of industry events.Trade shows and upbeat discussion groups and company pitchmen and women are off somewhere spending lazy afternoons for a brief few weeks, catching their breath after a very active business and social first half of 2024.While the interlude in contact air cargo will be brief, one way you can tell early July heralds a slow air cargo news month, is to Google “air cargo” as we did on July 8 to the following result:“Get your Tommy Hilfiger John Light Cargo Shorts in Khaki Only $48.00,” lit up our screen for the Google search word "Cargo."When a snazzy pair of cargo shorts is bigger 'cargo' news than “sustainability, digitalization, or artificial intelligence” in Google, that seems like a good time to get to work to find news that is always there, where the rubber meets the road

     When Sirius would appear in the sky just before the sun, in July, that marked the beginning of the very hottest days of the year.     The Romans referred to this period as "dies caniculares" or "days of the dog star," which was eventually translated as just "dog days."     Too hot to handle?     Now that the world seems warmer and that last trade show of the first half of 2024 was over at PVG last week, we are counting the ‘Dog Days’ as July 4th in America approaches Thursday wishing all A SUPER SUMMER 2024!     At home we look at our four-legged friends with some passion whilst they continue to do what they have always done best as great spirits looking up every time, we enter the room and no matter what, asking us the same question with longing in their eyes:     “What’s up?” they always want to know.     Lulu, our faithful companion (pictured here), could not be described as a wonder dog, that’s for sure.     No heroics on tap for July 4th either.

Okay put down those margaritas for a moment, and read what was said at a great air cargo gathering last week in Cancun, Mexico. Look for the entire transcript of these comments in FlyingTypers  at www.aircargones.com. Here is Kale Logistics Solutions  self-generated initiative, branded Clear View Americas.  Our view is that Clear View is fresh, while other industry events these days seem tired. First Session: Collaborative Growth in the Air Cargo Industry – The Vital Role of Partnerships and Airport Leadership.  Speaker: Michael Webber, CEO Webber Air Cargo Inc. “In terms of total air cargo business HKG exceeded 4 M tons. MEM, PVG, & ANC exceeded 3 M. MIA holds 82% of the air cargo market share from U.S. to Latin America Cultivating Partnerships: Americas top four international gateways: MIA, LAX, ORD, JFK. While ATL ranks far up the line for passenger, ATL ranks far down the line in air cargo due to the reduced amount of cargo carriers that land/take off from ATL. Today in a world where information is

Great interview with Andreas Obermeyer about employing and retaining the right person in transport and logistics. Mr. Obermeyer is an expert who has a wide horizon on the global labor market in logistics; a first-class consultant who works with la crème of logistics in Europe. Born and grown in Basel, he completed his apprenticeship in freight forwarding after his “Matura”, i.e. the college certificate valid in Switzerland. After positions in Schenker and Danzas, world famous in those years, Andreas started to work in consulting in 1997, since 2001 in HR executive search and personnel consultancy. Conversation with Marco Sorgetti read by Geoffrey Arend is 20 minutes of power & interest.