FlyingTalkers By Geoffrey Arend

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...

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 mi...

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 Traffi...

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 steppi...

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...

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 membe...

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.

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 transp...

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 everybo...

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...

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 fo...

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...

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...

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 answer...

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 argume...

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 al...

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 Rob...

It's not rocket science but rather the rest of the story. Here Geoffrey offers some further insight of the people operating out of display stands this week at Logitrans Istanbul. Later we take a closer look into the future mind of Uber in commercial cargo transportation.

Logitrans Istanbul This Week As Logitrans Istanbul opens this week November 13-15, the self-proclaimed “bridge connecting the Eurasian region via logistic solutions,” is greeted by Emre Eldener, President of The Association of International Transport and Logistics Service Producers-UTIKAD, the very important market force for good, talking things over with Geoffrey. Emre’s message to all is straigh...

“While you are reading a book, it is also reading you,” purportedly words once spoken by Hans Christian Anderson have come to mind. Take the case of Richard Elieson, who has served as President of American Airlines Cargo for the past three and a half years. We have spoken often about things, usually at a trade show, or even as we did recently during a short interview/meeting inside American Cargo’...

EMO Trans Big South Africa Win “The EMO Trans organization proudly announces our new exclusive global co-operation partnership with Bidvest International Logistics (BIL) in South Africa that commences in early 2020,” Jo Frigger, CEO of EMO Trans told FlyingTypers as a blockbuster deal between BIL and EMO was announced Monday November 4. Nic Has The Knack What it is about Nic Danton is, this great...

The best feature of this truly remarkable place might be the one experience everyone gets to visit at least a couple times day.      The new American Airlines Headquarters is a classic grand American building in the tradition of the U.S. Capitol Building in Washington, DC, and our great transportation structures such as The Marine Air Terminal at LaGuardia Airport or Grand...

With the environment increasingly under the microscope, United Airlines stands alone as the only USA flag carrier to utilize biofuel.  Perhaps overlooked in the general rush of things on June 5th was United’s Flight for the Planet, the most eco-friendly commercial flight of its kind in the history of aviation, as World Environment Day was celebrated everywhere. For forwarders and shippers, th...

“We are delighted to welcome Tel Aviv to our network. It is an important cargo route and we have been extremely encouraged by the level of interest and bookings for both our direct services between London and Tel Aviv and the U.S. connections we now offer over our London hub,” . Dominic Kennedy, Managing Director of Virgin Atlantic Cargo announced as Virgin Atlantic’s first flight to Tel Aviv touc...

Linda Faces Future Pays It Forward Linda Eshiwani-Nate, Business Development Manager at Atlanta Hartsfield Jackson International Airport (HJIA) put it on the line: : “I am really excited. "For quite a while, US airports have remained far behind their European and Asian counterparts, especially as it relates to the overall airport experience and Cargo handling and operations, as such, I am excited...