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October 15,
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| Vol. 23 No. 42 | Tuesday
October 15,
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Spohr Takes Wings |
This Friday October 18, The Wings Club Gala Dinner will be held at the New York City midtown Hilton. It is an annual event that marks a return to normal of sorts as post-pandemic fades even further into a brave new world. Here is one of the most prestigious commercial aviation events anywhere in the world. It dates all the way back to he beginnings of modern aviation and has featured the greatest aviation leaders. For 2024, the always sold-out gathering will fill the grand ballroom of The New York Hilton to present its 2024 Distinguished Achievement Award to Carsten Spohr, Chief Executive Officer, Deutsche Lufthansa. Carsten Spohr has been Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of the Lufthansa Group since May 1, 2014, and leads this global aviation group consisting of a total of 300 subsidiaries and 105,000 employees worldwide.  We
knew Carsten when this former pilot headed up Lufthansa Cargo. Thinking
back 14 years, we recall an easy, quite effusive and ready to roll cargo
boss, in a brief video created in 2010, when we talked to him inside a hangar
at Leipzig during the AeroLogic launch. To be sure there have been hundreds or maybe even a thousand videos created since then. Just before we spoke, Carsten nodded and smiled, acknowledging a line pilot, who was standing greeting guests at the ladder of the big B777 freighter parked in the hangar. That relaxed “fellow captain of the clouds” moment has never been forgot. The Wings Club was born in Manhattan, on May 15, 1942, where once upon a time the giants of commercial aviation, meaning the legacy carriers of the United States of America all had their corporate offices and where every overseas air carrier did not feel quite at home unless it operated a headquarters and storefront ticket office on fashionable 5th Avenue. Past recipients of The Wings Club Award include Fred Smith, founder of FedEx (in 1993), and Robert Crandall (in 1994), who as CEO of American Airlines created the first major frequent flyer program and modern airline reservation system. In 1977, Laurance Rockefeller, who personally helped and contributed to our saving The Marine Air Terminal (now a historic landmark) at LaGuardia Airport, was honored by The Wings Club. In 1996, Herb Kelleher, the wonderful plain-spoken character and founder of Southwest Airlines, who led the airline to greatness showed up and filled several tables with folks dressed in tuxedoes and ten-gallon hats & cowboy boots, the favored garb in Texas. Wings Club conducts monthly luncheons with top speakers at The Yale Club of New York City in Manhattan. More: e-mail WingsClubEvents@wingsclub.org, or call +1 212.867.1770 ext. 101. GDA |
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