24 min
Virgin Opens LHR-PVG /Air Forwarders Get No Respect/Reporter's Notebook FlyingTalkers By Geoffrey Arend
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- Aviation
There is something instantly compelling and so wonderfully appealing in a widely circulated picture of Virgin Atlantic people, cabin crew and all, in face masks moving some medical supplies on an all-cargo VS flight from PVG to LHR last Friday April 3.
It’s about the culture of the business we are in and the people that touch us (from a proper social distance) every day.
Forwarders Get No Respect
In USA, FlyingTypers learned that as many as 30 or more small freight forwarding companies have gone out of business since the COVID-19 Pandemic has shut down the nation and many more are teetering on the edge of insolvency.
“The coronavirus scourge has so far adversely impacted countless companies and millions of American workers,” declared Brandon Fried President of the USA Washington-based Airforwarders Association.
Reporter's Notebook
I once asked Mike Chowdry, who invented ACMI, if the artwork on the tails of all his airplanes was inspired by the giant metal sculpture of Atlas at the entrance outside Rockefeller Center in New York City.
The founding father of Atlas Air smiled and I withdrew that dumb question..
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Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/geoffrey-arend/support
There is something instantly compelling and so wonderfully appealing in a widely circulated picture of Virgin Atlantic people, cabin crew and all, in face masks moving some medical supplies on an all-cargo VS flight from PVG to LHR last Friday April 3.
It’s about the culture of the business we are in and the people that touch us (from a proper social distance) every day.
Forwarders Get No Respect
In USA, FlyingTypers learned that as many as 30 or more small freight forwarding companies have gone out of business since the COVID-19 Pandemic has shut down the nation and many more are teetering on the edge of insolvency.
“The coronavirus scourge has so far adversely impacted countless companies and millions of American workers,” declared Brandon Fried President of the USA Washington-based Airforwarders Association.
Reporter's Notebook
I once asked Mike Chowdry, who invented ACMI, if the artwork on the tails of all his airplanes was inspired by the giant metal sculpture of Atlas at the entrance outside Rockefeller Center in New York City.
The founding father of Atlas Air smiled and I withdrew that dumb question..
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Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/geoffrey-arend/support
24 min