JFK Rotary
Scouts Katrina
In the USA, the Greater New York City Council of the Boy
Scouts of America, which encompasses all five NYC Boroughs and the Rotary
Club at JFK International Airport are collecting supplies to assist Boy
Scout units and their families affected by the recent Hurricane Katrina.
In the States of Louisiana, and Mississippi half dozen Boy Scout Councils
lost their headquarters, while other units were affected by the flooding.
The JFK Airport Rotary Club includes members of the local air cargo community
who have teamed up to assist in shipping the relief items collected.
Collection point for donations at JFK International Airport is Building
142 with manpower and local truck provided by JRS Trucking.
To schedule a donation contact Rudy Auslander, 718-244-5140 or Dennis
Klainberg at 516-872-3335
 Airbus
came up big as the Hurricane Katrina emergency relief effort continues,
donating use of the largest cargo carrier in the world, an A300-600 Super
Transporter, “Beluga” that moved relief supplies donated by
the governments of France
and the United Kingdom to
aid victims in the Hurricane stricken areas of the United States.
The aircraft moved tents, camp beds, blankets and other relief items and
is available to the UK and France relief effort for as long as needed,
Airbus said.
Also worth mentioning here is an interesting report released by an organization
named for and founded by an old air cargo hand Lynn
Fritz.
Lessons from the Tsunami: Top Line Findings, the first-ever survey of
aid recipients from a major disaster that relates aid satisfaction levels
with preparedness and logistical failures from the first 48 hours and
60 days of the Tsunami relief effort.
The survey included interviews with 1,406 affected people in 197 villages
in India and Sri Lanka and 376 non-governmental organizations (NGOs) from
the two countries.
The study provides lessons learned and insights on how to improve on future
relief, and is relevant to the ongoing rescue and relief being addressed
by the USA and maybe the world in light of hurricanes Katrina and Rita.
Fritz Institute says that it’s work with Tsunami assessment will
continue with a ten-month follow-up survey of recipients that is currently
in the field and will be finalized before the one-year anniversary of
the disaster in late December.
www.fritzinstitute.org.
BWI, Baltimore-Washington
International Airport gets a new name on Saturday October
1, becoming Baltimore-Washington International
Thurgood Marshall Airport.
BWI is the second U.S. airport within recent memory to honor a distinguished
African American.
In March 2004 ATL was renamed Hartsfield-Jackson
Atlanta International Airport in honor of former Atlanta
Mayor Maynard Jackson.
 New
signs honoring the late Supreme Court associate justice and Baltimore
native Thurgood Marshall began going up around BWI yesterday.
President Kennedy appointed
him to the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit in 1961.
He served in that court until 1965, when President
Johnson appointed him the first African-American solicitor
general of the United States.
Marshall made history again in 1967, when he was sworn in as the first
African-American justice of the U.S. Supreme Court.
His 24-year tenure was marked by his commitment to defending constitutional
rights and affirmative action and by his strong opposition to the death
penalty.
Marshall died in Bethesda, Md., On Jan. 24, 1993 at the age of 85.
He was posthumously awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom, our country's
highest civilian honor on Nov. 30, 1993.
The airport code, used for airline schedules, will continue to be BWI.
The airport is also planning to erect a memorial to Marshall by the end
of the first quarter.
 Hainan
Airlines got its first Airbus A319 aircraft
this week, destined to be operated by Chang'an
Airlines, a local branch of Hainan Airlines in Xi'an.
The aircraft will serve domestic trunk routes and some high-altitude
routes like Tibet, Huanglong
and Gongga.
Some Chinese refer to the A319 as "The Mountain Goat", having
first flown over Tibet International Airport in 2001.
Today more than 50 A319s are in service in China,
Hong Kong and Macao.
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Elsewhere TACA
took delivery of its first A321, becoming the first operator of the type
in Latin America. TACA operates a total of 35 Airbus aircraft (nine A319s,
25 A320s, and one A321.
The Boeing Company
confirmed that it is all done shooting itself through the foot with an
expensive strike just when it’s order book is chock ‘o block.
As soon as union members vote to approve the contract, Boeing will ink
a new three-year contract with the International
Association of Machinists and Aerospace Workers (IAM),
which represents approximately 19,000 Boeing employees in the Seattle,
Wichita, Kansas and Portland, Oregon area.
If employees vote to ratify tomorrow (September 29), it will immediately
end a strike that began on Sept. 2.
Reportedly the strike was taken by Boeing rather than ante up about $90
million more in benefits of a $4.5 billion dollar labor contract.
UPS, the
ninth biggest airline in the world, also has 2,459 pilots that voted overwhelmingly
to authorize a strike.
But after a three-year long dispute, the pilots are prohibited from striking
unless the union is released from U.S. federally supervised mediation.
Doubtful pilots would strike right now anyway because of Hurricane Katrina
and Rita, and UPS involvement in relief efforts.
Dispute involves health care premiums, pensions, pay, as well as protection
against the use of non- union pilots on certain routes flown by subcontracted
airlines.
Stay tuned. . . .
 Qatar
Airways starts flights from Doha
to Madrid on December
2.
The Spanish capital will become the airline’s second new European
service at the end of the year, as Berlin
becomes number three on line two weeks later on December 15.
Qatar Airways will operate three flights a week between Doha, capital
of the State of Qatar in the Arabian Gulf, and Madrid.
Currently Qatar Airways operates to 66 destinations from Doha, which
will rise to 69 with the addition of Madrid, Berlin and, from November
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BDP International, a privately
held global logistics company, has expanded operations in China.
Located in Ningbo, the new office will operate as a satellite
of the company's Shanghai
operations, which will continue to coordinate consignment and notification
of inbound shipments.
BDP Asia Pacific in Ningbo is in Suite 1206, 12/F, Hua Lian Mansion, No.
55 Dong Du Road, Ningbo City, Zhejiang Province, 315000 China. Tel: +86574-8709-2882;
Fax: +86-574-8709-2883 or www.bdpinternational.com
Mondiale Freight Systems,
with offices in Auckland,
Wellington, Christchurch
and Hamilton, New
Zealand and Corrigan's Express
headquartered in Los Angeles
with a network of offices in New York
(JFK), Atlanta and Chicago,
signed a deal to represent each other in their respective home countries
on an exclusive basis.
"It's like David & Goliath," Jan
DeGiorgio, President,
Corrigan's Express said, half kidding we suppose. But Mondiale, New Zealand’s
largest forwarder was dead serious choosing to partner with Corrigan's
rather than a large U.S. forwarder because of its "personalized,
dedicated service," according to John
Sargent, CEO of the Auckland based company.
www.mondiale.co.nz
or www.cefreight.com
World air cargo volumes continue to suffer as capacity
outstrips demand and high fuel prices impact international trade.
In August, Lufthansa Cargo
transported 137,000 metric tons of freight and mail, down 3.5 percent
year-on-year.
Lufthansa's cargo load factor was 60.4 percent in August against a year
to date average of 64 percent.
Earlier IATA reported numbers for international cargo traffic rose but
a meager 2.2 percent in July.
Korean Air, reported an
8.8 percent slump in freight volume during the period while British
Airways reported a whopping 10.2 percent fall in freight
volume in August, and United Airlines
reported cargo numbers dipped 4.4 percent in August from a year earlier.
 Vintage
aircraft will be in evidence on October 5, 2005 as Los
Angeles International Airport’s Flight Path Museum
salutes the centennial of the birth of pioneer aviator Howard
Hughes.
The event, which also marks the museum’s second anniversary, begins
with a 5:30 p.m. reception, followed by a buffet dinner at 7 in the LAX
Imperial
Terminal.
Proceeds will benefit Flight Path, the nonprofit community group operating
the museum in cooperation with Los Angeles World Airports.
Guests will view a newly created video of Hughes’s life and legacy,
a model of the Hughes Flying Boat or Spruce Goose, a unique oil painting
of Hughes with the flying boat, and a collection of satellite models designed
and manufactured by Hughes engineers and technicians.
The museum is situated in the LAX Imperial Terminal, 6661 W. Imperial
Highway.
Tickets and info: (310) 215-5291.
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Flying
fish is nothing new, although since Pinocchio we haven’t heard of
anyone traveling inside one.