Flyingtypers Cargo Talks!

  Two powerful women serving in key posts for  international logistics are profiled. The technological challenges facing the logistics industry and the celebration of International Women’s Month were on the agenda when FlyingTypers had a chat with the always insightful Cathy Morrow Roberson, Founder and Head Analyst of Atlanta-based Logistics Trends & Insights LLC.. Zeynep Kasikci, Head of Airfreight at DB Schenker Turkey is absolutely spot on about what is new and next, and she has been at the top of her game for 25 years.   “Air cargo in Turkey is undergoing an amazing transformation with realization that Hub Istanbul is the next great transportation story.   “Here the greatest airport in the world is opening in 2019.   “The future of air cargo is digitalization and artificial intelligence." Zeynep Kasikci said.

Jan Krems President of United Airlines Worldwide Cargo is on top of the world. Today United Airlines is the number one belly cargo lifter in the United States. Jan talks about the drivers that make an airline cargo resource great. He also reveals what it means to have a true cargo heart. Later we take a break with Episode 3 of Speed Gibson an old time radio aviation series  from 1937, that is featured here every two weeks. Enjoy the ride!

IATA Cargo conducts a mandated annual meeting of its airline members every year as it also does elsewhere for its passenger carrier members. For 2019, the air cargo event titled euphemistically "World Cargo Symposium" (WCS), was held at the Iconic and over the top Marina Bay Sands Hotel in Singapore, the place with the swimming pool that spans across the top of three 57-floor skyscraper buildings. There were plenty of how to and what will we do session meetings amongst industry stakeholders at WCS 2019 . Transcripts of those meetings are available from IATA. But here we talk to the people who took, in most cases,  a very long journey to rub elbows with their opposite number, and also to meet and catch up with business partners.  These are the global leaders of the dynamic air cargo business in 2019. Meet Guillaume Halleux, Chief Cargo Officer of Qatar Airways Cargo , Ingo Zimmer, CEO of  GSSA specialist ATC,  a company that is  growing worldwide at a record pace, and Turhan Ozen, Chie

   After India's Jet Airways Chairman Naresh Goyal stepped down on March 1, ending 25 years with a whimper, aviation pundits in India were not surprised. Fliers and other aviation observers will agree that not too long ago, Jet had set the gold standard for service and excellence.  But over the last few years, its quarterly losses had grown as had its woes.  In just ten years, the company with close to 50 percent market share went down to less than 15. As the U.S. celebrates Women’s History Month in March and the world celebrates International Women’s Day March 8, Jennifer Frigger Latham, Vice President, Sales & Marketing at EMO Trans based in Long Island, New York is amongst the outstanding emerging women in global transportation.

March update underscore that numbers post CNY( Lunar New Year) are flat, but end of US/China trade dust up could be near. Profile of Thomas Uschtrin, United Cargo Sales Manager Germany,reveal some big ideas for team and business development. Thomas enjoys his work, plays piano seriously, and loves the forests of Germany.While we were weekending air cargo led the way into commercial shipping in space delivering 400 pounds to the International Space Station

We celebrate International Women’s Month with a good story that has panned out into a great one.At Air Cargo Europe 2017 United Airlines Cargo President Jan Krems and Lufthansa Cargo Executive Board Member & CEO Peter Gerber met and hosted an afternoon soiree to celebrate the signing of a landmark air cargo joint venture. Stepping up to the plate charged with delivering on the promises, hopes and dreams are two smart, high-powered female cargo executives named Lori Lively, Cargo Alliances Manager from United Cargo and Claudia Steinke, Senior Manager Strategy & Airline Cooperations at Lufthansa Cargo.

The UK exit of Brexit is just one month away. While debate rages here are some basic truths and warnings. Elsewhere whilst attending an air cargo conference we actually found a shipper. Rare breed at these things but this guy had something to say!

The always engaging Washington DC based Airforwarders Association met in Las Vegas and held their annual Air Cargo Conference February 10-12. Here is an inside look at a gathering that underscores women in air cargo as the first order of business while moving the marble in security, digitalization and new technologies. AfA prospers greater cooperation with partners and customers. 

Now just as Air Cargo Europe Trade Show ends in Munich June 7, in Berlin and elsewhere in Germany a nine day event will begin on June 10 as The Berlin Airlift will be recalled with a giant fly-in by more than 40 vintage aircraft  that saved that city during the blockade of 1948-49. The 70th anniversary of the end of the Berlin Airlift is shaping up as a world event. For people today in air cargo, and for people that love aviation everywhere, here is an opportunity to step back to the future to see, touch, and feel what it was like when air cargo was front page news all over the world and a city of two million people depended on a narrow aerial lifeline.

Announcement that the  super jumbo passenger aircraft Airbus A380 will no longer be built marks the end, at least for a while ,of the plan to fill the skies with huge comfortable airplanes. Although the dream is over, for the more than 200 A380s still flying ,the melody lingers on. What happened? What might be next? What is the A380s legacy as it continues to serve selected airlines moving ahead?

Here are the latest numbers quoting leading industry analysts and IATA Cargo. In part two we take a sentimental journey with REG Davies the greatest aviation historian. Ron sat in the Lindbergh Chair at the National Air & Space Museum in Washington DC for more than 50 years. Along the way he authored more than 38 books on everything from airline histories to the Berlin Airlift. These recordings  will continue during 2019.

Here we meet Andy Cornwell who serves American Airlines Cargo as Regional Sales Manager UK and lives near historic Bushy Park in Teddington a suburb of London.  Later a sweet tooth gets it as we talk Sky Bar , the most wonderful four flavored candy bar that disappeared last year , but will make a comeback in 2019 thanks to someone who loves the candy and just bought the rights in an online auction. --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/geoffrey-arend/support