FlyingTalkers By Geoffrey Arend

FlyingTalkers By Geoffrey Arend

Become a Paid Subscriber: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/geoffrey-arend/subscribe From the Dean of air cargo journalists off the cuff, right to the heart of the air cargo business. It's the past, present and future in conversations with Geoffrey Arend, Award Winning Editor & Publisher of Air Cargo News Flying Typers since 1975 .Geoffrey is the original Air Cargo News .Our publication was in business publishing monthly eight years before a publication of the same name, now owned by the German DVZ Group appeared in the UK during 1983.

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December 2, 2025 28 mins


     “Everybody talks about, but no one does a thing about it” is a popular notion about what?
     “The weather!”
     But as we close 2025 in an absolute blizzard of industry events of all kinds, it’s time to point some focus on which gathering of air cargo and logistics really meant something above and beyond everyone’s desire of furthering transport.
     Here we humbly submit a dissertation upon logistics by two s...

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 As you read this, we learn that the pioneering Marine Air Terminal (MAT) at LaGuardia Airport, where all scheduled international aviation in New York City took off in 1940, that we as an air cargo publication, if you can believe it, were miraculously lucky enough to save from destruction in 1980, well, the same Marine Air Terminal, i.e. the building that attained Landmark Preservation status, could be in immediate danger of being ...

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November 18, 2025 13 mins

Here is some unfiltered Air Cargo News from the USA New York City publishers that invented the title for their publication 50 years ago in 1975.

Here is an exclusive report of a conversation with SWA Cargo Chief Brian Kilburn.

Enjoy!

 

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November 14, 2025 16 mins

Inside The Kale Logistics Wonderworld

Writing for the FlyingTypers is a pretty unique experience.You just need to keep your brain connected and let your imagination run: thepages open up in front of your eyes as though you were in a picture movie.Today our inspiration comes from Rajan Subramanian, Chief Product and Chief AI Officer at Kale Logistics. If you hear his name and you think that he is dealing with AI and all the hottest t...

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November 14, 2025 9 mins


Welcome to todays Flying Talkers….

We are glad that you are here

Today we talk to A Global Leader Making Payments Safe AndEasy……

Todd Pigeon is a senior P&L leader with expertisedriving revenue capture, operations, sales enablement, and customer experienceinitiatives for businesses with complex end-to-end supply chain and logisticschallenges.

 Todd is Vice President of Sales at PayCargo, aleading service provider in logistics f...

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October 22, 2025 15 mins

    “FIATA unites in VIETNAM to advance contemporary logistics”: It isautumn. This is the time when The FIATA World Congress normally takes place; asregular as the change of the season, the FIATA World Congress opened its doorsin Hanoi, Vietnam on October 6th. This is how FIATA introduced the event in itsmost important yearly gathering ..also adding that… “The world is entering ahistoric period of transformation, where global trade...

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August 21, 2025 6 mins

Air Canada Cargo HitsThe Spot

"We did indeed modify our freighter schedule to put in placea freighter relief schedule to ensure continuity and provide temporary capacity," reports Matthieu Casey Air Canada Cargo."We support our customers, by including temporary service from Europe. As we AirCanada and Air Canada Rouge resumes flights over the course of the next week.Our Cargo relief schedule will continue to operate a...

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August 13, 2025 11 mins

Been thinking about gargantuan projects abuilding at John F. Kennedy International Airport and already completed at LaGuardia Airport in New York City and have concluded that, while well-intentioned, the JFK opus misses the real point about the airport that serves the comings and goings of people that are mostly international fliers to and from the greatest city in the world.
     The main roadway in and out of the airport namel...

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July 24, 2025 3 mins

PayCargo’s Big Deal In DubaiIn the picture as a historic first occurs— Emirates SkyCargo agrees to implement the PayCargo solution. Signing the agreement are Badr Abbas Abbas, Divisional Senior Vice President, Emirates SkyCargo and Adriaan Reinders, Chairman & CEO International, PayCargo.Also pictured back row standing left to right are Matthew Scott, Vice President of Cargo Pricing and Interline, Emirates SkyCargo; Dr. Ramacha...

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July 23, 2025 7 mins

RAP is normally connected with modern music. Not for FIATA members, though, who immediately recognize the acronym with Region Asia Pacific, i.e. the regional assembly of the association members of the region. This group is chaired by Yukki Nugrahawan Hanafi, nominated by the Indonesian association member.
     One may wonder what has the title to do with the RAP meeting. Well, we asked AI. It came to assist with this explanation...

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July 12, 2025 4 mins

Face To Face On Fire At Hong Kong TIACAHactl - Hong Kong Air Cargo Terminals Limited CEO Wilson Kwong and The International Air Cargo Association TIACA Executive Director Glyn Hughes at the TIACA Executive Summit go up close and personal in a wide-ranging, no holds barred conversation this week.Glyn: Please provide a background of the real Wilson Kwong.Wilson: Been closely associated with air cargo for 7 years. Started on the passe...

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Those who were in Munich recently for Transport Logistic Munich know that international trade, which is the main engine behind global logistics, is thriving on one side, whilst running its greatest risks at the same time. Clearly some of those in the attendance were not comfortable with the ‘elephant in the room’, others simply ignored it. Fact is trade negotiations 2.0 have started and nobody really knows where they are heading.

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May 28, 2025 11 mins

Transport Logistic takes off June 2-5, at Munich Trade Centre,with Air Cargo Europe, the icing on a giant logistics confab as a partner event, whichmanaged to combine different interests in logistics in order to attract large crowds from all over the world. No one is quite sure how much audience spillover occurs between the venues, which in the case of air cargo organizersclaims more than 262 exhibitors from 46 countries in a gigan...

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May 13, 2025 11 mins

I was born in Toledo, Ohio in 1941 to my truly beautiful andloving mother, Eleanor Jane. During wartime with Dad in the Navy, our localsuper business Libbey Owens Glass hired the both of us to pose for a magazinead for their glass brick. The advertising agency’s people put Mom in a DorothyDress (Wizard of Oz, 1939), as it was still on folks’ mind I suppose. Thepicture here tells you the story better than a thousand words.

 

In addit...

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April 16, 2025 14 mins

GeoffreyArend of  Air Cargo News (that’s me, folks!) met Jeffrey Van Haeften, Senior Vice Presidentof Commercial, Emirates SkyCargo, just before IATA’s WCS in Dubai in thespringtime. 
     Originallyit was an interview, but in the end it became something more thoughtful andunexpected and it is best told as a short essay. With our readers’ support wegive you Van Haeften’s views on air cargo, trade events and beyond, in firstperso...

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April 1, 2025 5 mins

Welcome to The Flying Typers Broadcast….

Today March into April at jet speed  and spend just a couple minutes is a message from our sponsor United Airlines Cargo…….

What is United Cargo?

Reliable. Fast. Everywhere You Need.

From Coast to Coast—and Everywhere in Between.

When it comes to domestic air cargo, businesses need apartner with the network, speed, and reliability to keep shipments moving efficiently.

United Cargo delivers on all...

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March 29, 2025 12 mins

After a long journey, as both Italian andSwiss railways decided that this Sunday was the best day for network and equipment maintenance, I arrived in Geneva after dusk.

On Monday 17th ofMarch at 9 o’ clock, as sharp as a Swiss clock, the FIATA Headquarters’ meeting began with a rather ambitious programme, harbouring the desire to “provide participants with key market trends and trade developments as well as an external outlook in c...

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March 27, 2025 9 mins


Come April 2, U.S. President Donald Trump will becelebrating a “liberating day” because, as he stated, “we’re getting back someof the wealth that very, very foolish Presidents gave away because they had noclue what they were doing.”

Is India ready to counter the U.S.’s reciprocal tariffs?

As April approaches, the pressing question is not just aboutthe effects of these tariffs, but how to remain protected when PresidentTrump’s r...

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March 11, 2025 16 mins

Hot topic touching nearly every trade show and ndustry gatherng. Here s what you need to know before those meetngs.

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February 25, 2025 21 mins

Let us start our in-depth consideration of the de minimis regime with a quote published by Ms. Cindy Allen, CEO of Tradeforcemultiplier: “If the option to utilize de minimis was eliminated for goods, large marketplaces may structure the transactions differently for transportation, sale, and entry declaration to reduce costs. They would consolidate the merchandise on one entry per conveyance. They would establish a U.S. based entity...

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