Centerlines - March 2009 - (Page 13) COVER STORY PHOTO BY SAM A. MCCRIMMON A United Airlines jet is loaded with cargo as it waits at the terminal. Phillips, executive director of the international airport planning and aviation market research consultancy firm, Keiser Phillips Associates. This holds true in Bednarz’s backyard, where JAL has introduced passenger aircraft Boeing 777s on the New York route to give them a significant increase in available cargo space. Bednarz noted that Nippon Cargo Airlines withdrew its freighter service from New York and JAL is doing the same. “These decisions were made when jet fuel (costs were) at extremely high levels,” Bednarz said. “Fuel has come down significantly, but unfortunately, so has the global air cargo market.” High, albeit now moderating, fuel costs favor passenger aircraft belly freight capacity over freighter aircraft, according to Thomas E. WHAT is Bicoastal, Global Issue DOING? ACI-NA position themselves to capture a share of the growth in China and Southeast Asia. • Completed its most recent edition of the ACI-NA Cargo Compendium in 2007, which provides a variety of tools and guidelines that can assist in helping cargo professionals create successful cargo operations at their airport. • Expanded its research interests by getting involved in cargo-related projects being funded by the Airport Cooperative Research Program/ Transportation Research Board. • Builds relationships with other associations, including the Cargo Airline Association and the Airforwarders Association, as well as providing industry updates and discussion opportunities for members during the monthly Air Cargo Committee conference calls. • Established the China and Southeast Asian Market Working Group to identify trends so that airports can Bednarz said the East Coast of the United States continues to suffer more than markets further west. However, the westernmost U.S. cargo hub has its fair share of challenges. Located almost exactly halfway between Japan and New York, Ted Stevens Anchorage International Airport is more than a transit stop for fuel and technical work on aircraft. It is increasingly becoming a hub with many spokes where cargo is handled, sorted, and transferred between aircraft to maximize the efficient delivery of product both to, and from, Asia. Anchorage Development Director Richard Wilson said the airport www.aci-na.org | CENTERLINES 13 http://www.aci-na.org
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