FlyingTalkers By Geoffrey Arend

Getting stuck at the airport is often an interminable experience. It’s enough to pass through the welter of airport security, losing shoes and sometimes dignity to an impassive TSA crew, only to find oneself with few options for food aside from boiled-in-a-bag offal or questionable, plastic-entombed sandwiches. The culturally bereft limbo that exists between security’s point of no return and one’s...

Welcome and Happy New Year from your friends at Flying Typers. Today we close the chapter on this rather extended year end break in the action and beginning of the New Year of 2025.  Let’s in the spirit of the New Year party season recall a great gathering on several New Years Day occasions over the years as we travel back to a once upon a time at JFK International Airport in New York City.

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 rehas...

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...

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 sha...

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...

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...

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...

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 th...

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 S...

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...

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 ac...

     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...

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. Fi...

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 certif...

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 our Uncle Claude who recalled D Day through the...

“ CONFETRA ,” said our senor contributing editor Marco Sorgetti based in Rome,” is an interesting report on the state of air cargo in Italy. “For me this was a great opportunity to report comforting numbers from my home country, albeit with some alarming signs.” This gave us reason to take contact with some of our friends by hop scotching around the world with the aim to understand difference and...

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.