FlyingTalkers By Geoffrey Arend

Summer

Am a crazy New York Yankees baseball fan and seldom miss one of the 161 games they play each summer.But my ability to watch those boys of summer games on TV hit a glitch until a kind lady named Jennifer Vivas who works for YES The Yankees Entertainment &Sports Network both assuaged my fears, and found my signal and sent it to me.So I sat right down and wrote her a letter now shared here with a bit of LaGuardia Airport history

Return with us now to yesteryear ....As we approach another anniversary of that terrible day The National September 11,(2001) Memorial & Museum leads the nation, and the world, in marking the the day that changed our lives forever. The 23nd anniversary commemoration ceremony will take place next week in Manhattan at the WTC Memorial Plaza, focused as always on an in-person reading of the names of the 3000 souls lost in the tragedy, by family members and friends who like all of us will never forget.

But what of the people that were inside that somehow made it to the outside and live on today?

Our friend and head air cargo guy for Port Authority of New York & New Jersey is one of those people.

Today Jim Larsen who was ex Seaboard World Cargo when he became the second and so far greatest most innovative airport cargo executive you ever met lives quietly by himself in Lakehurst New Jersey about an hour from New Yok City.

But on that bright beautiful day September 11 and 08:00 he sat down inside Tower One, and as the first plane crashed into his building thought the tower was going to turn over, and it was curtains for him and everyone else on the 65th floor of the building.

Here is a timeless story of true courage and greatness told once again just as he told us a few days after his miraculous survival and great courage as Jim became a great hero of that terrible day walking all the way down and out of that soon to crash building with others including physically challenged people.

The airline & the people and the airline that planted a giant Redwood Tree At Schiphol Cargo in Amsterdam may be gone, but here both are fondly remembered.

Sometimes what cargo does together can grow everyone's situation for the better, is the message here nearly 55 years later.

As Summer 2024 Reruns continues here from 2023 we remembered our dear friend and business colleague Jo Frigger who died April 19, 2021.

Today as before this 50 years plau business in USA continues as a family affair ,headed up by Chairwoman Karin Frigger, VP Compliance Sven Frigger and VP Digital Transformation Jenni Frigger.

From April 11 , 2022 Amar More founder and powerful force in the world today from Kale Logistics Solutions of India lays out his plan ,with innovative ideas and clear creative thinking that have withstood the test of time.

Now in Summer 2024 Kale is growing by leap and bounds worldwide.

It’s simple :

The Kale Solution eliminates paper and keeps cargo moving faster.

Here we go up close and personal so you can listen and learn all about it!

 Later join Joe McBryan

Hang onto your hats!

From January 9 2024 we launch or "Summer Reruns " with a look at the pioneer ACMI individual of all time Mike Chowdry who took that form into the big time. We aalso mention some greats still among us in air cargo so you should not spend your summer stuck in the past.

Welcome aboard.

In December 2020 as the world held it's breath under the global threat of the deadly infecting COVID-19 , came the air cargo industry leading the way in delivering the antidote to millions.

Based on the job air cargo did for getting COVID vaccine to people all over the world the great expectation based on general knowledge amongst the masses was that maybe finally our industry and particularly the USA would embrace wider spread induction of freighters.

One executive in 2020 actually called for closer look at freighters.His name is Bill Boesch.

This is his story from our pages and the edition of Flying Talkers dated December 14,2020 when hopes ran high as vaccine deliveries began in earnest.

As we revisit that story here ,alas in 2024 the conversation so far all year long at air cargo industry gatherings has bounced back between sustainabiity and digitalization.

Bill Boesch for freighters echo's and re-echo's the words of the true main deck advocate in air cargo, now most notably lacking in numbers at every USA flag airline.

As India inches closer to the ambitious target of 10MMT of air cargo handled per year by 2030, one question that is being asked is: Why are there so few freighter operators from India? One of the major reasons is the high belly capacity available in India. Around 80 percent of cargo traffic is carried on passenger aircraft. Today, Blue Dart apart, there are only a handful of freighters carrying the India flag.

August 15 brings a great golf tourney as the 19th Annual Dan Ferrante gathering takes place at JFK International Airport.

Sometimes things happen that change everything. The first flight, the first Tesla electric car, the first

Here from 2023, the rarest of up close and personal interview with Eduardo Del Riego, CEO of PayCargo.

Eduardo and his team from Coral Gables, Florida have changed the way to pay shipping cargo forever, all over the world.

This interview created in April 2023 laid out the PayCargo plan that has succeeded way beyond what many people thought possible.

Many,that is with the notable exception of the erstwhile Eduardo Del Riego!

Mr. Del Riego began his career with Crowley Maritime starting inoperations, then sales, to line management running Crowley's Dominican Service

In 1992 upon sale of the company to Inchcape Shipping of London,

In late 1994, he partnered with the Di Gregorio Family of Brazil to build U.S. Network $100 million company.

In 1999 along with a partner, he started Athena Information

EDR International sold its interest in AF&L in 2009 after

Mr. Del Riego is