AviationPros Podcast

Editors Joe Petrie and Josh Smith discuss airline trends and predictions for 2022 and explore how these may impact other segments of the aviation industry.

Kaven Swan of HOK discusses the current challenges and opportunities for airports to leverage disadvantaged business enterprises to improve operations and development. 

Scott Sangster, vice president of global logistics service providers at Descartes, joins Ground Support Worldwide editor Josh Smith to discuss how automated demurrage and tracking technology can be used together to address the challenges of ULD and pallet shortages.

In AviationPros' annual Year in Review Show, Walker Jaroch, assistant editor for AviationPros, is joined by Joe Petrie, editor of Airport Business; Josh Smith, editor of Ground Support Worldwide; and Jennifer Wilberschied, editor of Aircraft Maintenance Technology. As part of their look back on 2021, the group touches on the developments of the COVID-19 pandemic, passenger unruliness in airports, the rise of sustainable initiatives across the industry, air cargos continued growth and more. 

Captain Lee Collins, Senior Vice President of Industry & Government Affairs at Paragon Flight Training shares his thoughts on the recent parts shortage debacle and what bigger fixes need to be made to better the supply chain overall. 

In the final episode of the AviatonPros Podcast series, Aviation and the Environment, Walker Jaroch speaks with Jonathan Smith, senior attorney with the organization Earthjustice, about the dangers of leaded avgas and the work Earthjustice has been doing to get the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) to regulate it.

Carla Potts and Dan Black with Nachurs Alpine Solutions Industrial discuss the benefits of using chloride-free deicing materials for landside winter weather operations.  

Uschi Schulte-Sasse, senior vice president at INFORM GmbH, joins Ground Support Worldwide editor Josh Smith at the IATA Ground Handling Conference to discuss her company's GroundStar platform, which can be used for various short-, mid- and long-term personnel management details among other tasks.

Chris Cooper joins the podcast to offer insight about the current state of sustainable aviation fuels and the future SAF has in the industry.

Cooper is vice president of North America renewable aviation at Neste -- a Finland-based multinational renewable fuel, and renewable polymer and chemicals company. In 2020, the Corporate Knights Global 100 ranked Neste as the third most sustainable company in the world.

Mitul Ruparelia of Vision-Box discusses the reopening of international travel between the U.S. and U.K and how technology will play a key role in the future of travel security.