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A LaGuardia Trippe Helped Save A LandmarkIt is always significant when a plan comes together, butalso can be a gift like today, when Christmas & Hanukkah just came early.Last week we were writing about a plan we discovered inworks by the Port Authority of New York & New Jersey to demolish much ofThe Marine Air Terminal (MAT) at LaGuardia You might recall that we saved thatbuilding in 1980 with Tim Peirce LGA Airport General Manager and both of us in1986 were honored with the highest award for Historic Preservation by USSecretary of Transportation Elizabeth H. Dole in Washington DC.So here 39 years later comes word of impeding doom duringanother LGA Airport expansion ,even though MAT is designated a Landmark.

     “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 stalwarts of our industry, who we think as you read about their event may have done more to advance an idea of a logistics career amongst the next generation than anybody  anywhere else during the year that was 2025.     Ram Menen, who built Emirates SkyCargo and now is retired and Glyn Hughes who at IATA and TIACA has built everything else and is still active, have both done all of this before.      Very thankful that during their second version of outreach we caught up with them so that we can report what they said in detail and can share with you some quality time with these two experts who were making friends for logistics amongst some young people.     The driver here is the fact that air cargo and logistics needs to involve and build itself amongst the upcoming next generation.     Here for you dear reader, we share a futurist template that can serve to move us ahead in recruiting the next generation to lead our industry in 2026 and beyond.

 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 thoughtlessly altered out of existence by the airport operator The Port Authority of New York and New Jersey.     This plan, as we read their presser if enacted, endangers the most historically important commercial aviation structure in The United States of America, dating back to the beginnings of international aviation serving our country’s greatest metropolis New York City.     Here is what the presser states, reiterating it twice:     “The plan calls for replacing the 85-year-old Terminal A to meet demand and continued passenger growth while respecting the building rotunda's landmark status.     “A top-to-bottom rebuilding of Terminal A at LaGuardia while preserving the landmark rotunda.”     MAT is comprised of a central circular core of two stories with an attic from which a rectangular entrance pavilion and two symmetrically opposed one-story wings project.     The presser clearly states the plan is to save the central core and erase the rest of the building?     Press Release is clear and dangerous given Port Authority history at MAT since 1948.      We are grateful for the opportunity to remind everyone of what the LaGuardia Airport’s operator inflicted upon this pioneering facility in 1952.     During 1940-42, Artist James Brooks as part of the WPA Federal Arts program painted the mural titled “Flight” on the upper walls of the MAT lobby. ‘Flight” at 237.5 circular and 12 feet high was the largest work of the WPA program.      The Port Authority in 1952-3 in that clean-up program painted over and covered the entire mural with drab grey wall paint.     “Flight” remained covered and forgotten, a giant blank wall in a public space and it stayed that way for nearly three decades when, as Air Cargo News, we discovered LaGuardia’s Hidden Art Treasure and devised a plan to bring it back.     Now in 2025, it appears, if we read their presser correctly, the Port Authority wants to alter and change the MAT again, this time from the outside, after they had once upon a time, changed it from the inside out when they erased “Flight” from the upper Rotunda walls.      Keeping the entire MAT intact, observation decks and all, as it was built in 1939 is in our view essential, and matters to aviation history for one simple reason; here after World War II the MAT served every international flag airline that launched ongoing scheduled aerial service as the one and only scheduled way in and out of the world’s greatest city.     MAT was the USA connection to Europe from 1940 until the opening of Idlewild Airport, (now JFK International) in 1948.     Airlines from around the world serving New York City and thus the United States of America, operated via this tiny art-deco jewel of a building. BOAC (now British Airways/IAG), Air France, Trans World Airlines, SAS (Scandinavian), American Overseas Airways, Pan American and countless others all began their operations here.     Designers of MAT were Delano and Aldrich who also created most of the original LaGuardia Airport that opened in 1939.     Worth noting, a few years prior to their LaGuardia Airport effort Delano and Aldrich designed and built the Pan Am Flying boat base at Dinner Key-Coconut Grove, Florida that opened in 1936.     Today that Dinner Key Building, sister to the MAT at LGA, remains in full use intact, whilst serving the City of Miami as Miami City Hall.   

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! 

Inside The Kale Logistics WonderworldWriting 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 topics that are on today’s menu in logistics automation, your picture is there: you are directly plunged in the haunting rhythm of the Sorcerer’s Apprentice in Fantasia, the 1940 superb cinematic artwork.  I was curious tounderstand how complicated (or simple in fact) is Rajan’s work, delivering top-tier digital products to a vast audience of logistics enterprises.     Rajan Subramanian is a strategic and hands-on technology leader with over two decades’ experiencedriving enterprise-scale transformations through innovative digital platforms,unlocking measurable business value with data drive products. He also has deep expertise in data engineering, machine learning and cloud architecture.  With due respect the most interesting idea for us is this one: integrating generative AI to transform complex data intoactionable intelligence. Bridging executive strategy with engineeringexecution, Rajan has helped Fortune 500 organizations across fin-tech,healthcare, communications and supply chain evolve into data-driven, API-first enterprises.

Welcome to todays Flying Talkers….We are glad that you are hereToday 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 finance services. FlyingTypers hadthe opportunity to exchange views with Todd on his career and role in thecompany from his office in Miami.

    “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 and supply chains areopening up unprecedented opportunities while facing equally unprecedentedchallenges.

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 and gradually transition back to the regular freighter schedule once our passenger schedule resumes normal operation.

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 namely The Van Wyck Expressway is an absolute horror show, day and night 24/7 jammed up and jelly tight with traffic of all kinds!

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. Ramachandran G N, International Technical Project Manager, PayCargo; and Javier Gallego, Board Advisor, PayCargo. “We’re thrilled to launch in the United Arab Emirates with Emirates SkyCargo as our first regional partner,” declared Eduardo Del Riego, President and CEO of PayCargo,