A SOLID AUGUST FOLLOWS AN EQUALLY SOLID JULY
This week we are missing our VP Global Sales who has taken off a week for a long earned break and to attend a wedding in Chicago. At times it is so hard for Pete and me to keep up with Graham Burford. The guy literally works 24/7. Right now it must be driving the [...]
PASSION FOR WHAT WE DO IS ALIVE AND WELL AT CII
Partner, Pete Lamy and I from the day we decided to put our money where our mouths were and start CII sixteen odd years ago have always set time aside whether we are quiet or busy to sit down every day and discuss opportunities arising from the challenges facing us. Sometimes it might be dedicated [...]
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 [...]
THE WORLD OF AIRFREIGHT
There is talk that if trends for 2009 remain the same through summer and into fall, there will be bankruptcies galore amongst the airlines. Even though competition has been great in keeping prices down over the last twenty years, the simple fact of the matter is there are just too many airlines out there competing. Growth forecasts are being reworked and the prognosis is the world’s fleet will continue shrinking for the next five years at least as demand has irrevocably done likewise. It is not so much the tourist traffic that has impacted upon the industry, but the business traveler. We now live in an age of instant and cheap communications. Large corporations have woken up to the fact that cutting costs in executive travel has not only improved the bottom line but sales have been left totally unaffected. Airlines’ bread and butter may be the coach class traveler, but the cream came from the business and first class seats. Carriers are now working doubly hard at turning the front end of the aircraft to match the back end as they see the change in demand remaining long term rather than short term
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