Become a Paid Subscriber: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/geoffrey-arend/subscribe From the Dean of air cargo journalists off the cuff, right to the heart of the air cargo business. It's the past, present and future in conversations with Geoffrey Arend, Award Winning Editor & Publisher of Air Cargo News Flying Typers since 1975 .Geoffrey is the original Air Cargo News .Our publication was in business publishing monthly eight years before a publication of the same name, now owned by t ...
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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.
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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.…
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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 car…
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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.
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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 th…
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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, …
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In The Lav of a DC9 With Donald Trump When Donald Trump bought the old Eastern AirlinesShuttle, that had served Boston and Washington with hourly flights, he came to LaGuardiaAirport to launch the newly branded Trump Shuttle, in theform of an old DC9 that waited quietly outside at the gate bound for Washington. The Donald stood at the check-in gate…
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Sometimes things happen that change everything. The first flight, the first Tesla electric car, the firstcup 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 worl…
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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…
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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 f…
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Okay put down those margaritas for a moment, and read whatwas said at a great air cargo gathering last week in Cancun, Mexico. Look for the entire transcript of these comments inFlyingTypers at www.aircargones.com. Here is Kale Logistics Solutions self-generated initiative, branded Clear ViewAmericas. Our view is that ClearView is fresh, while othe…
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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 theglobal 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 forwa…
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Sentimental journey... We recall the life & times of a great Chilean air cargo pioneer Alex Thiermann. In Normandie as that big D-Day gathering today June 6 will see return of DC3s above the skies above the coast of France ,we visit friends and family there. Some years since we journeyed to Bernay in Normandie and relived some WWII memories with ou…
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“CONFETRA,” said our senor contributing editor MarcoSorgetti based in Rome,” is an interesting report on thestate of air cargo in Italy. “For me this was a great opportunity to report comfortingnumbers from my home country, albeit with some alarming signs.” This gave usreason to take contact with some of our friends by hop scotching around theworld…
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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 wher…
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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 episod…
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Bella Donna Words A Thoughtful Talley For Kale
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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 i…
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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 Airw…
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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 Me…
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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 Ea…
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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 …
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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 …
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The Late Great Alitalia & An Italian Interlude
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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…
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Where do we go from here? Best Bets Smart advice.You decide...
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The Man Who Is Changing The Way To Pay Cargo
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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 Edua…
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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 eng…
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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 s…
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Fruit Logistica Opens Wednesday in Berlin / CEIV Up Close
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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…
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All Bruce Did Was Give Air Cargo A Lifetime
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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 hand…
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Bill Spohrer died December 16 in Sarasota, Florida at age 91. Air Cargo lost a giant that quietly walked among us and made one hell of a difference in air cargo, changing the face of Miami Airport completely by innovating that airport some decades ago, into the pole position of global leadership in perishables. It was Bill that changed "Corrosion C…
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Here is an update as trade shows begin to take shape for 2023. The International Air Cargo Association said its Executive Summit 2023 will be held in Brussels November 6-8, 2023 at the exquisite, recently renovated, historic Skyhall. Inaugurated in 1958, to receive the many visitors of the first post-war World Exhibition, Skyhall was nothing short …
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How Miami Landed It's First Asian Scheduled Carrier
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How Miami Landed Its First Asian Scheduled Carrier Once upon a time in 1994 I found myself in Taipei, Taiwan sitting at lunch with Peter Yap, who was the top cargo executive for China Airlines Cargo. At one point, Peter looked at me and said: “The trouble today is finding markets that offer great growth potential and also support from the local gat…
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The Garden City Hotel in Long Island, New York with its distinctive cupola originally designed by Stanford White atop the structure, has been a landmark hostelry in New York for over 125 years. Here was the ground zero center of the global aviation universe for a couple of days in 1927, situated at the exact spot from where a young air mail pilot a…
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Pay Cargo Big Story At IATA World Cargo This Week In London
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Today PayCargo pulled off a show stopper announcement at International Air Transport Association (IATA) World Cargo Symposium in London announcing that the financial service company is spreading its wings beyond North America into Europe, the Middle East and Asia. PayCargo also revealed that they will be expanding their product offering and will be…
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Talk about no guts, no glory—an overlooked, albeit quite courageous lady named Michelle DeFronzo has worked as an Airline Cargo Sales Agent (CSA) for 30 years. In 2000 she formed ImEx Cargo, a global logistics and air transport service provider. ImEx Cargo like most of us over the past few years fought its way through tremendous negative COVID impa…
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Air cargo, it seems, will always find a way to stay close and working together on the local basis almost everywhere in the world. But in truth events that bring together and actually move the marble, whilst searching for some big ideas from a host of attendees feel like they are fewer and further between. As you read about Ram Menen, a guiding spir…
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IATA & TIACA Sullivan & Hughes At FIATA Geneva Sessions
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Listen Up As CNS Partnership Meets In Phoenix Here is Flying Talkers Podcast with details of last week in Geneva as Glyn Hughes, TIACA DG, and Brendan Sullivan, IATA Head of Cargo headlined the FIATA Headquarters Sessions. That deal between IATA and FIATA forged in 2016 that was supposed to make the peace between the airlines and the worlds largest…
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Picking up the pieces of a historical disaster such as the COVID19 pandemic may not be anything one would wish to do, but reading the comments that economy analysts are sending to press this spring you get a chance to ask yourself what are these explanations trying to teach us and wonder. Looking at logistics, airlines and freight forwarders, that …
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Living near a street named Utopia Parkway in New York City, I suspect something unexpected could happen anytime. My great city is a kind of utopia in its own way and loyally prepares you for the unexpected. No wonder something unusual can lurk between the trade show resort meeting rooms and the golf course. Cargo Network Services (CNS) is conductin…
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Kale By Golly A More Story / Joe McBryan & The Legacy Of Flying A DC-3
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On the road again like hundreds or maybe thousands of others in logistics right now, Amar More, the Kale Logistics co-founder and Chief Executive Officer carries a business card that states in no uncertain terms: “Committed to transformation of global logistics industry”. Let us discover together why this is indeed a true statement, as many in our …
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Stars Fell On San Francisco That Night / Why FIATA Matters in 2022
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Terms of Endearment . . . United Cargo wins Sustainability Award at The International Air Cargo Association TIACA San Francisco Executive Summit March 23. Jan Krems, who never in his imagination would have planned a situation like this, as President United Cargo almost singlehandedly saved the airline with the most ambitious cargo program in airlin…
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Bill Spohrer had done about as much as anyone you ever met to lift organized cargo when he served as CEO of Miami-based Challenge Air Cargo. He became a driving force of a great all-cargo enterprise based at MIA that landed four square behind a new idea for a trade show called Air Cargo Americas and also helped lift the comeback of TIACA. Bill cele…
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When the 2022 version of Air Cargo Americas/Supply Chain Americas Show launches this week on Tuesday March 8 after having suffering its 2021 version postponed because of COVID, the event venue will look pretty much the same as always. Maybe after all the uproar of the past two years that continues, 105 booths and 1,500 people signed up with many wa…
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Say A Prayer For Imma As Imma van der Walt was undergoing brain surgery at Duke University Medical Center in a nine plus hour procedure meant to arrest an enlarged brain tumor, her Dad, well-known and respected transportation executive Lionel van der Walt and Mom, the always gracious and lovely Ilonka were standing by as the procedure continued all…
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Valentines Day Not Coming Up Roses For India
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Happy Valentine's Day It is that time of the year when love shines. But India’s flower growers/exporters will hardly feel the warmth of love this Valentine’s Day 2022. Cupid will once again bring tears – like last year – to flower growers/exporters. Many had hoped that exports would rise but that did not happen. Farewell Alfred Kuehlewind We were s…
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