FlyingTalkers By Geoffrey Arend

A LaGuardia Trippe Helped Save A Landmark It is always significant when a plan comes together, butalso can be a gift like today, when Christmas & Hanukkah just came early. Last week we were writing about a plan we discovered inworks by the Port Authority of New York & New Jersey to demolish much ofThe Marine Air Terminal (MAT) at LaGuardia You might recall that we saved thatbuilding in 198...

     “Everybody talks about, but no one does a thing about it” is a popular notion about what?      “The weather!”      But as we close 2025 in an absolute blizzard of industry events of all kinds, it’s time to point some focus on which gathering of air cargo and logistics really meant something above and beyond everyone’s desire of furthering transport.      Here we humbly submit a dissertation u...

 As you read this, we learn that the pioneering Marine Air Terminal (MAT) at LaGuardia Airport, where all scheduled international aviation in New York City took off in 1940, that we as an air cargo publication, if you can believe it, were miraculously lucky enough to save from destruction in 1980, well, the same Marine Air Terminal, i.e. the building that attained Landmark Preservation status, cou...

Here is some unfiltered Air Cargo News from the USA New York City publishers that invented the title for their publication 50 years ago in 1975. Here is an exclusive report of a conversation with SWA Cargo Chief Brian Kilburn. Enjoy!  

Inside The Kale Logistics Wonderworld Writing for the FlyingTypers is a pretty unique experience. You just need to keep your brain connected and let your imagination run: thepages open up in front of your eyes as though you were in a picture movie. Today our inspiration comes from Rajan Subramanian, Chief Product and Chief AI Officer at Kale Logistics. If you hear his name and you think that he is...

Welcome to todays Flying Talkers…. We are glad that you are here Today we talk to A Global Leader Making Payments Safe AndEasy…… Todd Pigeon is a senior P&L leader with expertisedriving revenue capture, operations, sales enablement, and customer experienceinitiatives for businesses with complex end-to-end supply chain and logisticschallenges.  Todd is Vice President of Sales at PayCargo, alead...

    “FIATA unites in VIETNAM to advance contemporary logistics”: It isautumn. This is the time when The FIATA World Congress normally takes place; asregular as the change of the season, the FIATA World Congress opened its doorsin Hanoi, Vietnam on October 6th. This is how FIATA introduced the event in itsmost important yearly gathering ..also adding that… “The world is entering ahistoric period of...

Air Canada Cargo HitsThe Spot "We did indeed modify our freighter schedule to put in placea freighter relief schedule to ensure continuity and provide temporary capacity," reports Matthieu Casey Air Canada Cargo."We support our customers, by including temporary service from Europe. As we AirCanada and Air Canada Rouge resumes flights over the course of the next week. Our Cargo relie...

Been thinking about gargantuan projects abuilding at John F. Kennedy International Airport and already completed at LaGuardia Airport in New York City and have concluded that, while well-intentioned, the JFK opus misses the real point about the airport that serves the comings and goings of people that are mostly international fliers to and from the greatest city in the world.      The main roadway...

PayCargo ’s Big Deal In DubaiIn the picture as a historic first occurs— Emirates SkyCargo agrees to implement the PayCargo solution. Signing the agreement are Badr Abbas Abbas, Divisional Senior Vice President, Emirates SkyCargo and Adriaan Reinders, Chairman & CEO International, PayCargo. Also pictured back row standing left to right are Matthew Scott , Vice President of Cargo Pricing and Int...

RAP is normally connected with  modern music . Not for FIATA members, though, who immediately recognize the acronym with Region Asia Pacific, i.e. the regional assembly of the association members of the region. This group is chaired by Yukki Nugrahawan Hanafi, nominated by the Indonesian association member.      One may wonder what has the title to do with the RAP meeting. Well, we asked AI. It ca...

Face To Face On Fire At Hong Kong TIACA Hactl - Hong Kong Air Cargo Terminals Limited CEO Wilson Kwong and The International Air Cargo Association TIACA Executive Director Glyn Hughes at the TIACA Executive Summit go up close and personal in a wide-ranging, no holds barred conversation this week. Glyn: Please provide a background of the real Wilson Kwong. Wilson: Been closely associated with air c...

Those who were in Munich recently for Transport Logistic Munich know that international trade, which is the main engine behind global logistics, is thriving on one side, whilst running its greatest risks at the same time. Clearly some of those in the attendance were not comfortable with the ‘elephant in the room’, others simply ignored it. Fact is trade negotiations 2.0 have started and nobody rea...

Transport Logistic takes off June 2-5, at Munich Trade Centre,with Air Cargo Europe , the icing on a giant logistics confab as a partner event, whichmanaged to combine different interests in logistics in order to attract large crowds from all over the world. No one is quite sure how much audience spillover occurs between the venues, which in the case of air cargo organizersclaims more than 262 exh...

I was born in Toledo, Ohio in 1941 to my truly beautiful andloving mother, Eleanor Jane. During wartime with Dad in the Navy, our localsuper business Libbey Owens Glass hired the both of us to pose for a magazinead for their glass brick. The advertising agency’s people put Mom in a DorothyDress (Wizard of Oz, 1939), as it was still on folks’ mind I suppose. Thepicture here tells you the story bett...

GeoffreyArend of   Air Cargo News  (that’s me, folks!) met Jeffrey Van Haeften, Senior Vice Presidentof Commercial, Emirates SkyCargo, just before IATA’s WCS in Dubai in thespringtime.       Originallyit was an interview, but in the end it became something more thoughtful andunexpected and it is best told as a short essay. With our readers’ support wegive you Van Haeften’s views on air cargo, trad...

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After a long journey, as both Italian andSwiss railways decided that this Sunday was the best day for network and equipment maintenance, I arrived in Geneva after dusk. On Monday 17th ofMarch at 9 o’ clock, as sharp as a Swiss clock, the FIATA Headquarters’ meeting began with a rather ambitious programme, harbouring the desire to “provide participants with key market trends and trade developments...

Come April 2, U.S. President Donald Trump will becelebrating a “liberating day” because, as he stated, “we’re getting back someof the wealth that very, very foolish Presidents gave away because they had noclue what they were doing.” Is India ready to counter the U.S.’s reciprocal tariffs? As April approaches, the pressing question is not just aboutthe effects of these tariffs, but how to remain pr...

Hot topic touching nearly every trade show and ndustry gatherng. Here s what you need to know before those meetngs.

Let us start our in-depth consideration of the de minimis regime with a quote published by Ms. Cindy Allen, CEO of Tradeforcemultiplier: “If the option to utilize de minimis was eliminated for goods, large marketplaces may structure the transactions differently for transportation, sale, and entry declaration to reduce costs. They would consolidate the merchandise on one entry per conveyance. They...

Here I am between James Brooks the Long Island artist who in 1940-42 painted a huge mural titled, “Flight” affixed on Belgian Linen on the upper walls of The Marine Air Terminal (MAT) at LaGuardia Airport and Laurance Rockefeller who put up the money to save the mural after he learned it was painted out of sight (read on) in 1952.Once upon a time I was hell bent for leather working with my air car...

When Building 260 originally appeared in 1962 at Idlewild Airport Cargo (today JFK) in New York the place heralded a new era for air shippers with all the bells and whistles to advance air cargo to an unheard of new plateau.   When that very same building empty and unused for decades bit the dust and was removed a while back, air cargo romantics lamented the final chapter in the the rich history o...

  The man who has been the singular Pied Piper of local air cargo clubs, trade associations like AfA and IATA, CNS and now FIATA, and seems to always be there for everybody else, Air Forwarders Association’s Brandon Fried is pictured in an endearing moment at home with Rhodes, the grandson blessing delivered to Brandon and Kim 14 months ago. But while “baby its cold outside” this week and into the...

Dear Hearts & Gentle People Here are a group of people that everyone should know about when the question is asked ,”where in the world does air cargo reach out and help others asking for nothing in return?”. This recent snapshot includes some folks serving on the board of Cargo Human Care (CHC). They are (from left) Dr. Thomas Berger, Gerhard Meyke, Dr. Wolf Cyran, Fokko Doyen, Sieglinde Reinh...