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AMERICAN CARRIERS PLEASE GET BACK TO BASICS

Posted by julian on March 30, 2010 in Airlines

Listen American Airlines, United and the rest, stop thinking you are integrators and as such provide a time definite premium service. Unlike UPS and FedEx, you neither have the equipment nor the facilities to now even provide an acceptable level of service to domestic and international shippers. With so much of your fleets parked up [...]

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WHEN WILL THE GOOD TIMES OF INTERNATIONAL AIRFREIGHT RETURN?

Posted by julian on September 17, 2009 in Airlines, Export, Import

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. [...]

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UPS THINKS IT HAS FEDEX SNOOKERED, YEAH RIGHT!

Posted by julian on July 23, 2009 in Airlines, Export

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 [...]

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MEANWHILE BACK AT THE RANCH

Posted by julian on April 30, 2009 in Airlines, Company News

Capacity continues to shrink as airline permanently ground large chunks of their fleet. Today Delta announced all seven of the old 747-200 North West cargo fleet will shortly make their last flight; to that graveyard in the Mojave Desert. Only UPS and Kalitta will be left flying the old 747-200 workhorse. The decision of carriers [...]

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