Posted by julian on Mar 5, 2010 in
Airlines,
Company News
The TSA division of the Department of Home Security is moving forward in implementing 100% screening of all air cargo by year’s end. Last year we invested $hundred’s of thousands in screening equipment and this year we trained six specialists in our security screening department in Los Angeles. Many of our brethren forwarders are scrambling [...]
Tags: ATL, CII, DHS, Forwarders, Jeremy Vergara, JFK, LAX, Peter Lamy, screening, TSA, Zachary Zemby
Posted by julian on Dec 11, 2009 in
Company News
Peter Lamy was proud to tell the team he winged his way to and from Pago Pago in the jump seat of the oldest 747 freighter still flying. Some carriers such as American Airlines with their twenty plus year old MD 80’s have maintenance programs in place whereby their vintage aircraft fleet is literally “mutton [...]
Tags: HNL, LAX, Peter Lamy, Samoa
Posted by julian on Jun 26, 2009 in
Airlines,
Export
The perishable forwarders are presently having a great time filling up every available aircraft ex LAX going to the land of wunda, the land down under, Aussie, with tons of sweet, ripe Northern Californian grapes. Qantas has a thirty plus container backlog and general freight is being pushed aside to make way for grapes and [...]
Tags: Air Export, Grapes, LAX, New Zealand, Qantas
Posted by julian on May 21, 2009 in
Airlines,
Export
Had former CEO Geoff Dickson, his worthless board of directors and kiss-ass management team got their way and sold the company to a bunch of private equity thugs who were 100% financing the deal, Qantas would today be out of business. Why? Because if it weren’t for their strong balance sheet, there would be no [...]
Tags: BNE, Continental, Delta, Donald Trump, Geoff Dickson, LAX, PanAm, Qantas, Richard Branson, south pacific, SYD, United, Virgin