AMERICAN CARRIERS PLEASE GET BACK TO BASICS
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 [...]
QANTAS-BRITISH AIRWAYS MERGER MAKES SENSE
I have long advocated that there is too much sensitivity and protectionism when it comes to how governments view their national carriers. Every nation, right down to tiny Nauru Island (population less than 10,000) has an international airline. Most are government-owned and if they aren’t, the largest shareholder is the government. The vast majority of [...]
Don Lamy – The Richest Man in Airfreight
Last weekend, son Peter, helped his dad organize a get together of all the doyens of the L.A. Airport at Peter’s country residence. Over thirty people drove 150 miles to enjoy the Lamy hospitality. Don, now nearly seventy, was the toast of the party. It is easy to understand why. If wealth were measured in [...]
Lehman Brothers vs SAS
This week Timothy Pfeil, a two year employee of SAS between 2005 and 2006, has been sentenced to six months in jail for price fixing and joins ex`Qantas cargo executive, Bruce McCaffrey in the big house. Pfeil, formerly of Lufthansa, is just like the rest of the airline cargo executives, mere pawns in the fuel [...]
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