Steven still in lockdown in Malaysia 

• Malaysian Airways offering $21 domestic flights for double vaccinated pax. Incentive to increase vaccination uptake.

Other points covered:-

• Aircraft orders - narrow body
• LCC start-ups - India and Nigeria (Green Africa Airways)
• SMS and importance 
• Managers influence on SMS culture 
• Last session with David Banmiller on his book Turbulence

Recognition of Brentford Historic Results and some key supporters:

• Luke Taylor
• Sean Algar
• Nadia Dunn

Turbulence - David Banmiller

Penultimate session -

• The name - apt in so many ways
• The story journey and citizenship in Ireland
• So many views of our industry from outside - but how many more form the insiders perspective
• The importance of the TEAM and great team stories
• • Leadership
  • Crisis Management 
  • Listening 
  • How to motivate
• lovely epilogue - great memories and fantastic pictures
• • 2 generations of Valedictory speeches - proud dad
  • 2 brothers - twins and a closeness and respect that comes across in the picture
  • Wonderful letter from a state senator
  • Irish ancestry and a Gaelic section in appendix B

Our next and last session - emotions, soul searching, truths, mistakes, and memories - is a window into the man himself.

An aviation lover and an aviation doer!

Originating in South Africa and Zimbabwe a love for flying and flying experiences. What better setting?

From - 

• Demo pilot 
• Selling Cessna models and Schwizer Helicopters
• Owner of Cirrus and Hawker dealership
• Setting up Hanger 8 PLC and achieving 1st and largest ever publicly listed LSE private jet operator   

and now

• Volare Aviation -- Great name.. as well as My Heli // Unique concept
• • Combining - 
  • • Complete sales
    • Management
    • Engineering
    • Charter Services
  • All under one roof as well as : 
  • • Turnkey solutions for everything rotary.

A great session with a man who loves to be hands on and one who enjoys the positive disruptor role - a direct speaker and an advocate of transparency, doing things differently and then doing them better!

Another week passes by - some weeks have bigger impacts than others! 

Topics covered: 

More political errors by leading politicians 

When will common sense prevail and open dialogue be exercised before continued poor PR? 

The bounce back is now causing its own problems - if not addressed correctly, the positive opportunity could become a tsunami of problems 

Industry needs to review staffing and back-up options 

Faster and more effective responses 

Better technology 

Is there real merit in the 'top airport' awards at such a time (with a few exceptions that have responded so well during the pandemic?) 

Spain now biggest EU market 

Disparity in global markets as vaccine roll-out is calculated 

AstraZeneca - Johnson and Johnson and the T-Cell differential -

SOME SHOUT OUTS: Some great companies giving great Service: - Well done.

Simpson Travel  

Travelled - Now renamed to Venture. 

Stewart Angus  - Divisional Senior Vice President - Airport Operations

Recently resigned from dnata:

• 25 year veteran looking back on a great career to date
• From BA Finance to Emirates and then to dnata
• Those early years of what dnata could become
• Safety and security focus 
• Quality and training

General discussion with an industry respected professional and where his passions lay and what is important

Why are you leaving?

What were the high points?

What will you do next?

Great story of the greenhouse effect - not what you would expect.

Always engaging, always making sense and always a pleasure to talk with.

Experiences of quarantine and how to occupy yourself and your mind.

The wonders of admin!

• Discussion/debate subjects:
• • US - UK travel corridor - clear or not - politics?
  • US politics - leaders or prompt sheets - who is advising and who is leading - so many Why's.
  • Vaccinations - Jab or job?
  • Airline safety website - awards - useful or not, credible or not?

Lovely piece of artwork from Fiji on display!!

TURBULENCE - Session 15 - Chapter 13 -- almost the end of our journey.

David Banmiller talks us through a very appropriate last chapter -- Charting the best course for the future.

We look at pioneers, those who dared to be different and their secrets to success.

As we pass through our own very different times, some inspiration and brave new ways will deliver the success our industry deserves.

From Biometrics to Digital Transformation, from sustainability to profitability. 

We have seen so many innovations and game changers over the past 5 decades and we will experience so many more.

I now look forward to exploring more of the author, the man and what stories lay beneath the stories in the book.

Still a few sessions more to come and many surprizes, I am sure!

Brendan Sullivan - Head of Cargo at IATA

Great selection, great decision and will be very popular.

What a pleasure and privilege to interview this young professional achieving what is a fantastic position within the industry.

I have worked with him on COAG and ICHC and am so pleased that such an obvious decision has been made.

We discuss:

• The journey 
• The expectation
• What now?
• Key issues that need addressing 

Brendan remains humble yet hungry - like all good fighters.

We will look forward to many of his rounds as he navigates his way through upcoming challenges and opportunities.

A man of fashion as well - tune in and see this year's colours!!

GOOD LUCK BRENDAN!

Spending my Birthday with Mr Dickson!

Ref to a very nice podcast with Brendan Sullivan - new Head of Cargo at IATA. Will be going out next Tuesday..

Covered this weekend:

• Safety 
• E-Commerce - more must be done by States and Representative bodies
• M & A - Forwarders / GHA's
• Airports now on the path of change
• • SYD
  • BUD
  • US & Canada 
  • India
• Could Airports and GHA’s be the game changers moving forward?
• Sustainability of our business against further negative impacts from Covid
• ASIA under the spotlight

Message : 'It's not what you look at that matters, it's what you see.'

In this episode Chris is joined by Jerry Crump, Director of Business Development- GSE at Green Cubes Technology Corporation.

Jerry has been in the industry for 22 years, 13 years of that has been adapting fleets to E-GSE.

Topics discussed:

• How Lithium batteries for GSE can power a fleet with long-lasting, reliable power.
• Airport Infrastructure hurdles
• GSE issues post covid
• The need for Airports, Operators, Energy Companies  & GSE providers to collaborate
• Zero emission ramp’s
• People- Profit – Planet
• Carbon footprint reductions
• Sustainability