USA AIR NZ HEAD SAL SAN FILIPPO FACES PROSECUTION IN NZ
The High Court (equivalent to our Supreme Court) this week ruled that Sal San Filippo must stand trial with five other colleagues in New Zealand for “anti-competitive” behavior. Granted that his bosses fought hard to have him removed as a defendant (the opposite of what happened to Bruce McCaffrey of Qantas) it amazes me with [...]
PETER LAMY IS OFF TO SPEND THE WEEKEND IN PAGO PAGO
It was only a month ago when Pete flew down to Pago Pago and meet the first ship to arrive in port after the Tsunami to distribute ours and customers’ donations to the people of American Samoa. Pete arrived in town in his flip flops and T shirt straight off the plane and spent three [...]
WHEN WILL THE GOOD TIMES OF INTERNATIONAL AIRFREIGHT RETURN?
In my opinion not for a long, long while. Many mature countries like the United Kingdom for instance has for many years seen a shrinking air export market. Sure until a year ago this was offset by surging imports (the bulk of which were from China) but now that the bubble has burst there, U.K. [...]
UPS THINKS IT HAS FEDEX SNOOKERED, YEAH RIGHT!
Over the years we have been supporters of both companies, but last year Pete and I decided there was no future dealing with the bureaucracy that envelopes UPS. Once upon a time many of us couldn’t trust the USPS and in fact, FedEx was born out of the gross inefficiency and unreliability of the Post [...]






