Effective 1 February, AirBridgeCargo appointed Tatyana Arslanova as the new CEO of the airline. Arslanova will be responsible for the development strategy of scheduled air cargo service and operational business management of scheduled air cargo service, qualityoriented development of the company and its staff. She will be in charge of the strategy development of the company as a whole, implementation of marketing organisation principles in the key lines of route network development, sales … [Read more...] about AirBridgeCargo
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AeroLogic
Jörg Eberhart has been appointed as the new managing director of AeroLogic GmbH. He succeeds Dr. Thomas Papke, who is moving to a new post in charge of procurement at Lufthansa Passenger Airlines, effective 15 March. Dr. Papke has been managing director of AeroLogic with responsibility for the entire operations division since 2007. During his tenure, he played a key part in the establishment and successful start-up of the cargo carrier. Jörg Eberhart is currently VP commercial, … [Read more...] about AeroLogic
Chapman Freeborn
Chris Chapman, founder and chairman of Chapman Freeborn Airmarketing is to be inducted into The International Air Cargo Association’s (TIACA) ‘Hall of Fame’ in recognition of his outstanding contribution to the development and growth of the global air charter market. His achievements will be officially recognised at the annual TIACA Hall of Fame Dinner on 17 May in Leipzig, Germany, during TIACA’s 2010 Executive Summit and AGM. The presentation dinner … [Read more...] about Chapman Freeborn
Have gun, will travel
And here’s another item that’s left the Bellyacher’s scratching our collective heads, and one that gets filed in that overloadedfile folder labeled: ‘Only in America’. If the Christmas Day bombing attempt in Detroit by the ‘underwear bomber’ was weird and frightening enough, a recent news item is tad weirder and possibly way more frightening. The fact that Americans seem to have a perverse love of guns of all sorts is … [Read more...] about Have gun, will travel
Mile-high luxury
Now that prudish Singapore Airlines has publicly admonished its first class passengers to behave themselves while in the relative privacy of the private suites onboard the airline’s A380s, those seeking to join the ‘mile-high club’ have had to fulfill their membership qualifications elsewhere. Well fret no longer, no need to attempt amorous acrobatics in the confines of the onboard lavatories, because the Hotelicopter, the world’s first flying hotel, … [Read more...] about Mile-high luxury
From splash to trash
The one-year anniversary of the ditching of a US Airways A320 on the Hudson River in New York was commemorated recently. To mark the occasion, the crew and passengers of US Airways Flight 1549 had a reunion in New York, and even took a boat ride together on the Hudson to the place where the disabled aircraft splashed down on January 15, 2009. Around the same time a Piper PA - 18, that also there to commemorate the so-called ‘Miracle on the Hudson’, appeared on the scene … [Read more...] about From splash to trash