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| A Social and Benevolent Organisation |
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| Joseph Alba |
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It was a full house at the JFK Hilton Hotel as Neel Shah, Delta Airlines Senior Vice President and Chief Cargo Officer presided as guest speaker at the April 26th JFK Air Cargo Association luncheon. Recently Mr. Shah was awarded the Jim Foster Award for Excellence from the Airforwarders Association (AfA), the industry trade organization for air cargo companies and their partners. Shah’s presentation centered on the state of the industry and Delta’s strategic positioning in the cargo business. The Chief Cargo Officer of Delta said the primary goal of Delta’s cargo business was to maintain current business clients and grow within the current structure. In a conversation with Airport Press, Shah said that one of the major strategic shifts in the business is the re-routing of Asian sourced cargo flights to |
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Willie Mercardo, President JFK Air Cargo Association, with guest speaker Neel Shah, Senior V.P., Cheif Cargo Officer, Delta. |
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the United States going outbound via Europe rather than returning back to Asia. This enables the return flights to have a bigger outbound load rather than fly directly back to Asia with less freight. Shah also said that Delta will not get into Cargo Aircraft but will remain a “belly carrier” for the foreseeable future. |
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Why is it taking so darn long for a lot of people to die, which may act as an impetus and speed up the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s process of solving the JFK bird problem? Yes, I know it’s a government agency and yes, I know they take a mite longer than most to catch on to things, but you’d think they could figure out that after 257 strikes on aircraft last year alone, that eventually an airplane is going down and it’s their damn birds that will be the cause. The aircraft, Delta flight 1063, was bound for LA and was forced to return 10 minutes after takeoff from 13R. Birds had crippled the right engine of a Los Angeles-bound Delta jet as it took off, endangering the lives of 179 passengers and crew. The pilot reported the engine-related problem and landed t |
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he Boeing 757 safely at the New York airport at 3 pm, said a representative from the FAA. “Flight 1063 was on take-off when the aircraft encountered a bird strike” in its right engine, said Anthony Black, a Delta spokesman. “As a precaution, the captain returned to JFK.” The Delta pilot deserves praise for his professional action and calmness; and reminded us of the January |
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2009 bird strike incident when Chesley Sullenberger landed his US Airways jet in the Hudson River. FAA data show Kennedy planes smacked into birds, rabbits and other wildlife 257 times in 2011, a 17 percent increase over 2010 and a 55 percent increase over 2009. My understanding is that the US Department of Agriculture had been given the job of solving this problem and has been working for more than two years on a plan to protect aircraft leaving JFK and LaGuardia from Canada geese and other birds in Jamaica Bay. Two years! In private industry, after six months without solving the problem, they all would have been fired. |
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