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Headlines - July
- August 2003
Hong Kong ______________________
Polar Air Cargo appoints new Manager of Charter Sales, Asia-Pacific
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Ron Tang
Manager, Charter Sales, Asia-Pacific region |
Polar Air Cargo has named Ron Tang as its Manager of Charter Sales for the Asia-Pacific region. Tang, based in Hong Kong, will work with forwarders, brokers and shippers in the region to identify air-cargo charter solutions that best fit their needs. Tang comes to Polar from Atlas Air, Polar's sister company, where he was a sales manager.
"Ron has more than 20 years of operations.
and sales experience in air cargo, and is ideally suited to service our wide network of Asia charter customers from inquiry to execution," said Kersti Krepp, Vice President, Asia-Pacific."Ron will work directly with our customers in the region to ensure our charter services meet and exceed their expectations."
Polar Air Cargo Inc. is a wholly owned subsidiary of Atlas Air Worldwide Holdings Inc. Polar operates a fleet of Boeing 747 freighters on a time-definite, cost-effective network of frequent, scheduled service connecting Asia, Europe, Australia, and the Americas.
United
Kingdom ______________________
Air Partner offers ‘no deposit and free
cancellation’specials
In response to nervousness in the UK about making group travel arrangements as the Iraq crisis continues, the market leader for aircraft charters, Air Partner plc, has introduced a special deal to overcome the current dip in confidence.
Corporate clients who are considering chartering for events this summer and autumn can now book aircraft on a no - deposit basis
and if any have to be abandoned, cancellation
charges will be waived. The move is aimed at addressing the concern that incentive travel, meetings and events industry clients have that by booking now and planning ahead they may incur costs if circumstances change nearer the
date.
For a limited period, whilst hostilities continue, clients can freely contract and freely abandon a booking completely without penalty, up to just six weeks prior to the flight, at which time they will be asked to decide if they want their programmes to go ahead on fully committed terms.The deal is managed from the UK offices and available on selected airlines, on all but peak dates.
Air Partner group managing director David Savile commented: "We are the world’s largest reseller of aircraft charter, and when a market stumbles, we feel obligated to do something to give it a hand up. In time, the confidence will return naturally; until then we believe this incentive will help restore business levels”.
Zambia ______________________
Safair helps translocate Black Rhinos to Zambia
Safair recently helped the SANParks Game Capture Team translocates five rare black rhinos to the Luagwa National Park in North East Zambia.
After loading into crates at 03:00 in the morning at the research bomas near Skukuza, the animals were transported by truck to the Kruger Mpumalanga.
International Airport (KMIA) where the crates were loaded onto a Safair Lockheed Hercules transport aircraft.
The aircraft flew directly to an airstrip in Zambia, a flying time of around three and a half hours. Josias Chabani, the Acting Director of the Kruger National Park said: "It is our absolute pleasure to be sending these animals to our colleagues in Zambia. We do this in the spirit of Africanism and to
further the aims and objectives of NEPAD, because the presence of these rhinos in Zambia will undoubtedly increase their tourism business and hence the country's economy."
Says the chief veterinarian and head of the SANParks Game Capture Team, Dr Markus Hofmeyr, the operation had to go smoothly and as quickly as possible to minimise stress on the animals. "Animals are tranquillised during a journey of this nature to stop them hurting themselves in transit," he explained.
Black rhinos weigh around 850 kg and stand around 160 cm. They are still rated as endangered by CITES. Kruger's black rhino population stands at around 400.
California______________________
Air Royale International becomes Wyvern Authorized Broker
Wyvern Consulting Ltd., the leading provider of worldwide aviation safety audit services, announced that they have entered into an agreement to provide safety information to Air Royale International, the leaders in private jet charter brokering. "We are very excited to begin this relationship with Air Royale. Air Royale, as a Wyvern Authorized Broker, now has real-time access to the Wyvern database of audited operators, and can offer their customers a level of safety unsurpassed in the industry " stated Walt Lamon, CEO of Wyvern.
Wyvern provides safety audit reports of charter aircraft operators with more than 660 aircraft housed in 124 facilities in the United States and 38 international locations. Charter operators are audited on-site against The Wyvern Standard, considered the "Gold Standard" of aviation safety auditing.
Headquartered in Los Angeles, Air Royale International was founded in 1994 and is a private jet intermediary serving a client base that includes celebrities, politicians, CEOs and private individuals. As a private jet intermediary, Air Royale International works with a & database of over 5,500 aircraft to match the client with the most perfectly suited aircraft available from small turboprops to corporate jets and commercial airliners.
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