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Pictured are Joe Pesce of Air France and KAAMCO Cargo Committee Chairman presentling Michael A. Duffy, President and CEO of Cargo Airport Services USA, with the Cargo Person of the Year Award at the annual KAAMCO Cargo Holiday Party on December 09, 2011 held at Leonards of Great Neck and attended by 300 persons from the air cargo community. |
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| RYANAIR CEO BLASTS EU AT EU MEETING |
| “Lower prices beats higher prices every time,” |
No one ever accused Michael O’Leary, CEO of Ryanair, of being subtle. At a recent European Union Convention, O’Leary’s main thesis was that it was governments, not industry, that retards growth. O’Leary went on to say that Innovation and market disruption can be powerful forces for economic growth. But government involvement in the market tends to be a force against disruption, and hence a force against innovation. The drive to protect the dominant companies - often |
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justified in the name of job preservation - prevents success for companies that offer better, cheaper, or different products or services. The European Union received a frank lesson in these economic truths when it brought Ryanair CEO Michael O’Leary to speak at its recent innovation convention. In a rousing and thoroughly entertaining speech and subsequent Q&A, O’Leary roasted the European Commission’s attempts to protect Europe’s major airlines, often at the expense of innovation in the industry. “This is the first time I think that I or Ryanair have ever been invited to a conference by the European Union,” O’Leary jibed, “because as most of you know, the European Union spends most of its time either suing me, torturing me, criticizing me, or condemning me for lowering the cost of air travel all over Europe.” |
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DELTA TO ADD 100 FLIGHTS,
29 DESTINATIONS FROM LAGUARDIA |
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Delta Air Lines said that it plans to use its new New York hub at LaGuardia Airport to add more than 100 flights to 29 new destinations. Delta has more capacity out of La- Guardia thanks to a slot exchange of takeoff and landing rights at LaGuardia and Reagan National Airport in Washington, D.C. between Delta and US Airways. Delta’s investment will be the largest single expansion by any carrier at LaGuardia in decades, with total flights increasing by more than 60 percent, and total destinations by more than 75 percent. By summer 2012, Delta will operate 264 daily flights between LaGuardia and more than 60 cities, more than any other airline. Delta will offer more domestic flights and seats from New York’s three major airports than any other carrier, with more than 400 daily domestic departures from LaGuardia, JFK and Newark to destinations nationwide. Delta’s new hub will benefit consumers across the state of New York and the Northeast with convenient new nonstop jet service to LaGuardia. |
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| FOR AIRPLANE MECHANICS – THE FUTURE IS NOW |
| Aviation mechanics are in short supply |
Talk of jobs - or lack of them - dominates the national conversation right now. But there are places in the economy where willing, qualified workers are hard to come by. Mechanics work on a plane at AAR Aircraft Services Corp, in Oklahoma City, a few minutes away from Will Rogers World Airport. The company says it has at least 600 open jobs. One such place, AAR Aircraft Services Corp., an aircraft maintenance facility in Oklahoma City. |
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There, American capitalism is on display with all its strengths and weaknesses. AAR services jet aircraft, including passenger planes from carriers like Alaska Airlines, Mesa Air and Allegiant Air. |
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