One thing can be said for people in air cargo: they
know how to have a good time, and you could see the
good time they were having at Air Cargo Americas in
Miami.
Of course, it gets late early
at Air Cargo Americas, with the partying starting
at the show’s opening—the Latin rhythms
always deliver an on-time take off to the big events.
‘Living La Vida Loca’
gets a big head start down where the trade winds play,
and this happy HAE Group is proof positive!
Say hello to (from left)
Sales Mgr. Fla. Juan
Bon; Sales Mgr. Fla. Pablo
Hernandez; Sales Exec. Miami Lina
Rivera; VP Americas Charlie
Storcks, and MD Santiago Felipe
Campillo.
If
you think it is easy to step into the shoes of a legendary
air cargo icon, we’re here to tell you that
it actually takes effort, patience, and also a fairly
thick skin.
Luckily for Air Berlin’s
subsidiary leisure Cargo, the airline was able to
dip into its talent pool and come up with a highly
qualified industry veteran as managing director. He
succeeds Ralf Auslaender, the man who dreamed up the
leisure Cargo concept while at LTU.
Klaus Sieger is leisure’s
new managing director. This soft spoken, self-effacing
gentleman has only the nicest things to say about
Ralf, adding that his take on the business is in “a
wait and see mode.”
leisure guides the fortunes
of 19 airlines.
“Right now I am
running the list of carriers that use our cargo solution,”
Klaus said.
“Ralf handed the
baton to a strong, well organized and operated enterprise,
so although change is inevitable, we will move organically,
nothing too dramatic.”
Klaus says that he is
happy to be back in air cargo, noting he was immersed
in revenue management at AirBerlin when the call came
for him to take the reins of the top post at leisure.
“I guess somebody
must have read my CV and noted my years with Lufthansa
Cargo,” Klaus Sieger said.
Amongst all the suits in MIA we found the old cargo
pro John Ryan, one of the people responsible for building
the Virgin Atlantic Cargo brand in America.
John crossed from the forwarder side to the
airline cargo game more than 40 years ago. Today he
sports a Jack Nicholson-inspired look, complete with
shades and a requisite tropical shirt to suit the
Miami weather. He still feels right at home as GSA
Cargo Sales Manager New York for Hawaiian Air Cargo.
“We have great service from New York
to HON, with our A330s that manage to be well subscribed
by a growing list of clients,” John said.
“I love being out at JFK where the action
is and involved on the Board of the JFK Air Cargo
Association,” he added.
“On November 19, from 11:45 am until
2:00 pm, JFK Air Cargo Association and JFK Air Cargo
Managers Club hosts our annual Thanksgiving luncheon
at the airport Crowne Plaza.
“It is a big party, with lots of good
food and networking.
“We ask everyone to please bring an
item to donate to the Long Island Harvest, either
a frozen turkey or canned items.”
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CEO
of Airline Network Services, a new century GSSA based
near JFK International in New York, Jens Tubbesing
has built an impressive array of clients in the past
few years.
But the thing that was
most interesting to us at Air & Sea Cargo Americas
was to get Jens’ take on the state of the air
cargo business in 2015.
Jens once served as
president of Cargo Network Services (CNS) and of course
from that platform made many global contacts as CNS
has conducted its widely supported annual CNS Partnership
Conference (next year occurring April 10-12, 2016,
in Nashville, Tennessee) for the past quarter century.
“Today we need
to bring even more professionalism to air cargo in
every facet of what we do,” Jens said.
“We have a grand
opportunity to do more for the shipping community
because most of the attendees at ACA in Miami are
the true air cargo professionals,” Jens added.
Asked if he ever contacts
the growing number of ex-CNS presidents, a group that
includes Tony Calabrese, Michael Vorwerk, and Warren
Jones, Jens smiled, saying:
“Maybe we could
do a session sometime at a future conference.”
Airline Network Services
has offices in New York (JFK) JFK@ansgsa.com.
Phone: +1 718 244 1250 and elsewhere at LAX, ATL,
ORD, SFO, IAD, MIA, PDX, DFW, SEA, IAH, and Canada.
