Podcasts about all nippon airways

O município de Belo Horizonte se despede hoje do prefeito Fuad Noman; O Supremo Tribunal Federal tornou réus o ex-presidente Jair Bolsonaro e mais sete aliados por tentativa de golpe de Estado; A Embraer acertou hoje a venda de até 20 jatos E-190 para a empresa japonesa All Nippon Airways. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Send us a textLinking the Travel Industry is a business travel podcast where we review the top travel industry stories that are posted on LinkedIn by LinkedIn members.  We curate the top posts and discuss with them with travel industry veterans in a live session with audience members.  You can join the live recording session by visiting BusinessTravel360.comYour Hosts are Riaan van Schoor, Ann Cederhall and Aash ShravahStories covered on this session include -Lufthansa Group airline customers can now use their Apple AirTag within the group's baggage tracing solution. This applies to Lufthansa, Swiss International Air Lines, Austrian Airlines, Brussels Airlines and Eurowings.United Airlines denies the rumour it might be interested in buying JetBlue. Maybe they read the result of Jay Shabat's poll on the matter. All Nippon Airways and Lufthansa start a proof of concept for One Order using the SIRAX LH platform.Avi Meir reminds us that financial success in the travel industry is possible in his post where he applauds Uber CEO Dara Khosrowshahi's remarkable Q4 results.British Airways backtracks on some of the changes they recently announced to their frequent flyer program.Travel tech company Snowfall relaunches as Junction. Pieter Elbers would love to take IndiGo (InterGlobe Aviation Ltd) to his old base of Schiphol, but with the reduction of flights there, how will he find the slots? Yteke de Jong shares her conversation with him about this. (Dutch, behind a paywall).Sir Tim Clark of Emirates is once again asking Airbus to bring back the A380.Extra StoriesYou can subscribe to this podcast by searching 'BusinessTravel360' on your favorite podcast player or visiting BusinessTravel360.comThis podcast was created, edited and distributed by BusinessTravel360.  Be sure to sign up for regular updates at BusinessTravel360.com - Enjoy!Support the show

全日本空輸が公開した２０２５年大阪・関西万博特別塗装機「ＥＸＰＯ２０２５ＡＮＡＪＥＴ」と万博公式キャラクター「ミャクミャク」、１２日午後、羽田空港全日本空輸は１２日、２０２５年大阪・関西万博を記念した特別塗装機「ＥＸＰＯ２０２５ＡＮＡＪＥＴ」を羽田空港で報道陣にお披露目した。 All Nippon Airways on Thursday launched an airplane with a special livery to commemorate the 2025 World Exposition to be held in the western Japan city of Osaka.

All Nippon Airways on Thursday launched an airplane with a special livery to commemorate the 2025 World Exposition to be held in the western Japan city of Osaka.

We talk with the Long Beach Airport Public Affairs Officer. In the news, watching racy movies on the inflight entertainment system, a fatal crash at the Old Rhinebeck Aerodrome in New York, the competition for the main operating base for a fleet of Boeing KC-46A Pegasus air refueling tankers, and the AeroSHARK film that reduces fuel burn. Guest Kate Kuykendall has been the Public Affairs Officer at the Long Beach Airport (LGB) for over five years. She previously worked for the National Park Service and the Peace Corps. Our Main(e) Man Micah and Brian Coleman recorded a conversation with Kate covering various topics, including the airport's history, noise complaints, the new plane spotting area on private leasehold, and Corporate tenants at the airport, such as JetZero. Also, community outreach programs and tours, sustainability, and leaded aviation fuel for piston-powered aircraft. The airport's annual Festival of Flight is scheduled for Oct 19, 2024. Aviation News Passengers on Qantas flight to Tokyo endure ‘super uncomfortable' experience as racy movie is played on every single screen The IFE system was broken and the crew had to make a movie selection that would be seen on every screen. They chose Daddio from 2023 starring Dakota Johnson and Sean Penn. One passenger said, “Qantas played an inappropriate movie to the whole plane, there was no way to turn it off.” Another said, “It featured graphic nudity and a lot of sexting – the kind where you could literally read the texts on screen without needing headphones.” Experienced Aviator and Master Plane Craftsman Dies in Crash During Saturday Aerodrome Airshow Brian Coughlin, 60, died in a crash during an Old Rhinebeck Aerodrome show. He was flying a replica of a World War I Fokker D-VIII that he had helped to rebuild. A preliminary look at the accident indicated an engine fire during the airshow. Coughlin was a volunteer, an experienced pilot, and a mechanic craftsman who rebuilt World War I aircraft as a hobby. Bangor Air Guard Base Competing for New Refueling Tankers A competition is underway for the main operating base for a $1.3 billion fleet of Boeing KC-46A Pegasus air refueling tankers. The Bangor Air National Guard Base is one of the seven remaining finalists. The KC-46A tankers would replace the Boeing KC-135 Stratotankers operated by the Maine Air National Guard's 101st Air Refueling Wing, also known as the MAINEiacs. DAF announces seven candidate locations for KC-46A Pegasus MOB 7 The Department of the Air Force has selected seven bases as candidate locations to host the KC-46A Pegasus Main Operating Base 7. The candidate locations are: Bangor Air National Guard Base, Maine Forbes Field Air National Guard Base (Topeka), Kan. Key Field Air National Guard Base (Meridian), Miss. McGhee Tyson Air National Guard Base (Knoxville), Tenn. Rickenbacker Air National Guard Base, Ohio Scott Air Force Base, Ill. Sumpter Smith Air National Guard Base (Birmingham), Ala. Lufthansa Technik Upgrades LATAM's Boeing 777 Aircraft With Fuel-Saving AeroSHARK Film LATAM Airlines Group S.A. will become Lufthansa Technik AG's first external customer in the Americas to equip its Boeing 777s with AeroSHARK film. Lufthansa Technik calls AeroSHARK “a durable bionic film that successfully mimics the skin of sharks and optimizes the airflow, thus enabling significant fuel savings.” The film was developed in conjunction with BASF.  Lufthansa Cargo, SWISS, All Nippon Airways, and EVA Air have already adopted AeroSHARK, with promising results. Mentioned Northrop X-21 Operation Airdrop: Hurricane Helene Volunteer pilots are flying supplies to trapped Hurricane Helene victims Martin J. McNally – Part 1 Airways, Nov/Dec 2021, “Terror in the Air,” Clipper 93, September 6, 1970 Hosts this Episode Max Flight, our Main(e) Man Micah, David Vanderhoof, Rob Mark, and Max Trescott.

全日本空輸の機体に描かれたロゴマーク、東京・羽田空港全日本空輸は１９日、欧州３路線の就航を１２月から順次開始すると発表した。 All Nippon Airways will launch regular routes linking Tokyo's Haneda Airport respectively with three cities--Milan, Stockholm and Istanbul--in or after December, the major Japanese airline said Friday.

All Nippon Airways will launch regular routes linking Tokyo's Haneda Airport respectively with three cities--Milan, Stockholm and Istanbul--in or after December, the major Japanese airline said Friday.

カスタマーハラスメントへの対応方針を共同で策定した全日本空輸の宮下佳子ＣＳ推進部長と日本航空の上辻理香ＣＸ推進部長、２８日午後、東京都港区全日本空輸と日本航空は２８日、顧客による迷惑行為「カスタマーハラスメント」について、共同で対応方針を策定したと発表した。 All Nippon Airways and Japan Airlines on Friday unveiled a joint policy to deal with the harassment of workers by customers and vowed to act resolutely and respond systematically to such acts.

All Nippon Airways and Japan Airlines on Friday unveiled a joint policy to deal with the harassment of workers by customers and vowed to act resolutely and respond systematically to such acts.

In this episode, we speak with SimpliFlying's CEO Shashank Nigam, COO Shubhodeep Pal and Head of Sustainability, Dirk Singer about the launch of SimpliFlying's first annual Sustainable Aviation Outlook Report.As the world reels from the catastrophic consequences of climate change, the question of what the aviation industry can do about sustainability is rife with divided opinions. Is net zero by 2050 realistic? Is it equitable for all? Do we have the money to make it happen? Will customers support it? Aviation's pathways to net zero are also hotly contested.As the industry navigates its complex transition towards a sustainable future, the Sustainable Aviation Outlook Report aims to offer hope, reassurance, answers and some helpful suggestions along the way.Based on a survey of 20 leading carriers from around the world, including major players such as Air France-KLM, British Airways, Lufthansa Group, All Nippon Airways, and Southwest Airlines, the report seeks to assess the current state of sustainability efforts, identify best practices and challenges. Complemented with comprehensive and rich data from Cirium and Envest Global, SimpliFlying's Sustainable Aviation Outlook Report aims to provide insights into how carriers can effectively integrate sustainability into their business strategies.Learn more about the innovators who are navigating the industry's challenges to make sustainable aviation a reality, in our new book ‘Sustainability in the Air'. Click here to learn more.Links & More:Sustainable Aviation Outlook Report 2024 - SimpliFlying Sustainability in the Air - The Book - SimpliFlyingFrom Ground to Cloud: Will The Billions Invested In Sustainable Aviation Truly Decarbonise The Industry? - SimpliFlyingUnderstanding Sustainable Aviation in 40 Charts (Plus, Case Studies!) - SimpliFlying  

On the version of Hot off the Wire posted April 24 at 7:15 a.m. CT: WASHINGTON (AP) — The Senate has passed $95 billion in war aid to Ukraine, Israel and Taiwan, sending the legislation to President Joe Biden after months of delays and debate over how involved the United States should be in foreign wars. The bill passed the Senate on Tuesday after the House had approved the package Saturday. Biden is expected to quickly sign the legislation and start the process of sending the money to Ukraine. The legislation would also send $26 billion in wartime assistance to Israel and humanitarian relief to citizens of Gaza, and $8 billion to counter Chinese threats in Taiwan and the Indo-Pacific. Also passed Tuesday was legislation that would force TikTok’s China-based parent company to sell the social media platform under the threat of a ban, a contentious move by U.S. lawmakers that’s expected to face legal challenges and disrupt the lives of content creators who rely on the short-form video app for income. NEW YORK (AP) — What began last week when students at a New York Ivy League school refused to end their protest against Israel’s war with Hamas has turned into a much larger movement. Students across the nation set up encampments, occupied buildings and ignored demands to leave Tuesday. Protests against Israel’s war with Hamas had been bubbling for months. They kicked into a higher gear after more than 100 pro-Palestinian demonstrators who had camped out on Columbia University’s upper Manhattan campus were arrested last week. Dozens more protesters have been arrested at other campuses since. Many now face charges of trespassing or disorderly conduct. TOKYO (AP) — Japan's public broadcaster says smoke was seen coming from an All Nippon Airways plane as it landed safely at Shin Chitose airport in northern Japan. NHK television says the ANA flight was carrying about 200 people, and no injuries were reported when it landed Wednesday. It says the smoke, coming from the wing area, subsided when the engines stopped. Tesla’s first-quarter net income plummeted 55%, but its stock price surged in after-hours trading Tuesday as the company said it would accelerate production of new, more affordable vehicles. The company said it made $1.13 billion from January through March compared with $2.51 billion in the same period a year ago.  In other headlines: Tabloid publisher says he pledged to be Donald Trump campaign's "eyes and ears" during 2016 race. Casey, McCormick to face each other as nominees in Pennsylvania's high-stakes U.S. Senate contest. Moscow court rejects Evan Gershkovich's appeal, keeping him in jail till at least June 30. Photographer alleges he was forced to watch Megan Thee Stallion have sex and was unfairly fired. Ashley Judd, Aloe Blacc help announce White House campaign on suicide prevention. NFL draft has been on tour for a decade and the next stop is Detroit, giving it a shot in spotlight. The Pacers snap a long postseason losing streak, the Mavericks come back to even their playoff series, the Timberwolves earn a second straight win over the Suns, the Rangers use special teams to defeat the Capitals, the Panthers earn an overtime win over the Lightning, the Avalanche and Predators get road wins to even up their respective first round series, Shohei Ohtani's blast helps lead the Dodgers over the Nationals, the Mariners use their hot run to springboard into first place in the American League West and Caitlin Clark adds one more award to her historic collegiate career. —The Associated Press About this program Host Terry Lipshetz is managing editor of the national newsroom for Lee Enterprises. Besides producing the daily Hot off the Wire news podcast, Terry conducts periodic interviews for this Behind the Headlines program, co-hosts the Streamed & Screened movies and television program and is the former producer of Across the Sky, a podcast dedicated to weather and climate.

On the version of Hot off the Wire posted Jan. 16 at 7 a.m. CT: Former President Donald Trump has won Iowa's first-in-the-nation caucuses, with Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis coming in second. Trump's victory on Monday night gives him a strong start in the race for the 2024 Republican presidential nomination as the contest moves to New Hampshire, which votes in eight days. And DeSantis' runner-up finish over former U.N. Ambassador Nikki Haley gives him a badly needed dose of momentum. With an estimated 10% of ballots remaining to be counted, DeSantis leads Haley by approximately 2,300 votes, or about 2 percentage points. With votes reported in all but one of Iowa's 99 counties, Haley isn't doing well enough anywhere to catch DeSantis, based on the number of outstanding votes. BUFFALO, N.Y. (AP) — Dangerously cold temperatures are affecting much of the Rockies, Great Plains and Midwest, with wind chills below minus 30 degrees being recorded in many parts of the central U.S. More than 85,000 U.S. homes and businesses were without power early Tuesday, the bulk of them in Oregon after widespread outages that started Saturday. Classes were canceled Tuesday for students in Portland and other major cities including Chicago, Denver, Dallas, Fort Worth, Texas, across New England and in the Washington, D.C., region. The storms and frigid temperatures affected everything from air travel to NFL playoffs games to Iowa's presidential caucuses, and were also the cause of several deaths around the country. JERUSALEM (AP) — U.S. Navy SEALs seized Iranian-made missile parts and other weaponry from a ship bound for Yemen's Houthi rebels in a raid last week that saw two of its commandos go missing. That's according to a U.S. military statement Tuesday. The raid marks the latest seizure by the U.S. Navy and its allies of weapon shipments bound for the rebels who have launched a series of attacks now threatening global trade in the Red Sea and Gulf of Aden over Israel's war on Hamas in the Gaza Strip. The seized missile components included types likely used in those attacks. LOS ANGELES (AP) — A trio of shows, led by the HBO drama “Succession,” have dominated the 75th Emmy Awards. “Succession" won six awards, including best drama series. FX's “The Bear” won best comedy and won several acting honors, while the Netflix limited series “Beef” won five trophies at Monday's ceremony. “Beef” stars Steven Yeun and Ali Wong made history for Asian American performers, while Quinta Brunson's win for comedy was the first for a female Black actor in more than 40 years. The Emmys celebrated its 75th edition with numerous cast reunions and nostalgic cues throughout the night, with host Anthony Anderson and his mother keeping the show moving briskly toward an on-time ending. Biotech entrepreneur Vivek Ramaswamy is suspending his 2024 Republican presidential campaign and endorsing former President Donald Trump. His exit comes after finishing a distant fourth in Iowa's caucuses, behind Trump, Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis and former U.N. Ambassador Nikki Haley. Ramaswamy had previously called Trump the “best president of the 21st century” even as he tried to convince Republican voters that they should opt for “fresh legs” and “take our America First agenda to the next level.” The wealthy political outsider also modeled his own bid after Trump's 2016 run. His decision to drop out is the latest confirmation that the former president still dominates Republican politics. The NFL Divisional playoffs are set for next weekend after the Bills and Buccaneers, Bill Belichick interviews with the Falcons, and Draymond Green returns for the Warriors.  LOS ANGELES (AP) — Southern California quarterback Caleb Williams has entered the NFL draft. The Heisman Trophy winner is leaving USC after two prolific seasons. Williams is widely considered the favorite to be the No. 1 selection in the draft, which begins April 25. ATLANTA (AP) — Communities across the nation have been celebrating the Martin Luther King Jr. holiday with acts of service, prayer services and parades. But with the November presidential election as a backdrop, some events on Monday took on an overtly political turn. In Atlanta, Liz Cheney spoke at the the annual commemorative service at the historic Ebenezer Baptist Church, where King served as pastor. The former U.S. Representative who served on the U.S. House Committee that investigated the Jan. 6 insurrection, had especially harsh words for Trump. She referred to him only as “a former president” and said he “threatens the foundations of our nation and everything Dr. King persevered to save.” Iranian sniper rifles. AK-47s from China and Russia. North Korean-built rocket-propelled grenades. Anti-tank rockets secretly cobbled together in Gaza An Associated Press analysis of more than 150 videos and photos taken in the three months of combat since Hamas launched its Oct. 7 surprise attack on Israel shows the militant group has amassed a patchwork arsenal from around the world – much of it smuggled past a 17-year blockade aimed at stopping just such a buildup. Hamas declined to discuss who has been providing its weapons or how they were snuck into Gaza but acknowledged it has scoured the globe for the means to fight Israel. WASHINGTON (AP) — Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin says he's eager to return to the Pentagon after being released from a hospital where he was treated for complications from surgery for prostate cancer he kept secret from President Joe Biden. Austin was released Monday and is expected to work from home as he recovers. The 70-year-old Austin was admitted to Walter Reed National Military Medical Center on Dec. 22 and underwent surgery to treat cancer detected earlier that month. Austin developed an infection and was hospitalized Jan. 1. Biden found out Jan. 4. Austin's lack of transparency has triggered reviews on procedures for when a Cabinet member must transfer decision-making authorities to a deputy, as Austin did. CHICAGO (AP) — A plane taxiing for departure clipped another aircraft at Chicago O'Hare International Airport on Sunday evening, according to the Federal Aviation Administration. No injuries were reported, both planes were of Boeing design, and the FAA will investigate the incident. The left wing tip of Flight 11 from All Nippon Airways, a Japanese airline, struck the rear of Delta Air Lines Flight 2122 on Sunday around 6:30 p.m. Boeing is facing increasing scrutiny following mechanical failures and the subsequent grounding last week of its Boeing 737 Max 9 model — a different model than the planes involved in Sunday's collision. It was not immediately clear what caused the incident on Sunday and whether it was related to a manufacturing flaw. JERUSALEM (AP) — Houthi rebels have fired a missile, striking a U.S.-owned ship just off the coast of Yemen in the Gulf of Aden. Monday's attack on the Gibraltar Eagle came less than a day after Yemen's Houthi rebels fired an anti-ship cruise missile toward an American destroyer in the Red Sea. The Houthis later claimed the attack that further escalated tensions gripping the region after American-led strikes on the rebels. The rebel group's attacks have roiled global shipping, amid Israel's war with Hamas in the Gaza Strip, as they target a crucial corridor linking Asian and Mideast energy and cargo shipments to the Suez Canal onward to Europe. DAVOS, Switzerland (AP) — The anti-poverty organization Oxfam International says the world could have its first trillionaire within a decade. The group on Monday released an annual assessment of global inequalities timed to the World Economic Forum's gathering of political and business elites at the Swiss ski resort of Davos. Oxfam says the fortunes of the five richest men have spiked by 114% in real terms since 2020, when the world was reeling from the coronavirus pandemic. They are Tesla CEO Elon Musk, Bernard Arnault and his family of luxury company LVMH, Amazon founder Jeff Bezos, Oracle founder Larry Ellison and investment guru Warren Buffett. By contrast, Oxfam says nearly 5 billion people have been made poorer since the pandemic. REYKJAVIK, Iceland (AP) — Iceland's president says the country is battling “tremendous forces of nature” after molten lava from a volcano consumed several houses in the evacuated town of Grindavik. President Gudni Th. Johannesson said in a televised address late Sunday that “a daunting period of upheaval has begun" on the Reykjanes Peninsula in the southwest. A volcano on the peninsula erupted for the second time in less than a month on Sunday. Authorities had ordered residents to leave the fishing town of Grindavik hours earlier. Scientists said Monday that the eruption appeared to be subsiding. But it was too soon to declare the danger had passed. Iceland's Meteorological Office said “it is difficult to estimate how long this eruption will last.” —The Associated Press About this program Host Terry Lipshetz is managing editor of the national newsroom for Lee Enterprises. Besides producing the daily Hot off the Wire news podcast, Terry conducts periodic interviews for this Behind the Headlines program, co-hosts the Streamed & Screened movies and television program and is the former producer of Across the Sky, a podcast dedicated to weather and climate. Lee Enterprises produces many national, regional and sports podcasts. Learn more here.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

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Remember Bella Hadid photoshopping deviled eggs into a photo for Postmates money? What about Scott Eastwood's many, many grid posts promoting All Nippon Airways? How about Danielle Brooks's iconic ClearBlue spon? If you don't, you're in luck, because this week we're going back in time to revisit some of our favorite old segments on WHOLEBRITY #SPON. We'll be back to our regularly scheduled programming next week, so call in at 619.WHO.THEM to leave questions, comments & concerns for a future episode of Who's There. Support us and get a TON of bonus content over on Patreon.com/WhoWeekly. To learn more about listener data and our privacy practices visit: https://www.audacyinc.com/privacy-policy Learn more about your ad choices. Visit https://podcastchoices.com/adchoices

航空各社は６日、年末年始期間の利用状況をまとめた。 All Nippon Airways and Japan Airlines each reported on Friday a fivefold increase in international flight passengers during the year-end and New Year's holiday period.

All Nippon Airways and Japan Airlines each reported on Friday a fivefold increase in international flight passengers during the year-end and New Year's holiday period.

Nummer 194! CEO Marjan Rintel spreekt haar troepen toe in een gezellige KLM talkshow. Maar het is ook tenenkrommend. Met veel vermoeiende termen, zoals purpose, visie, memorable experience en strategy. Wij hebben de Random Rintel Generator. En de nieuwe KLM-kersttrui is besteld. All Nippon Airways spaart het leven van varkens. F-35 Lightning II probleem nog steeds niet opgelost. Russische vliegtuigen "opgegeten" voor onderdelen. Onze Vakantiekoning mogelijk weer op reis geweest in een private jet. Schnabbel voor gevallen ex-Schiphol directeur Dick Benschop. Een koninklijk vliegtuig staat te koop. Muziek: Dirty Old Man - The Three Degrees. Op http://tmhcplaylist.nl staan alle platen uit de podcast. Op http://luchtvaartplaat.nl vind je 500+ vette vliegtuighits. Tips en commentaar stuur je naar info@tmhc.nl Geef ons vijf sterren op Spotify en Apple Podcasts. Een positieve review stellen wij zeer op prijs. Michiel Koudstaal is onze voice-over. Voor al je inspreekwerk ga naar https://voxcast.nl

機体の尾翼に描かれた全日空のロゴマーク、東京・羽田空港全日本空輸は５日、冬の一時金を今年度、３年ぶりに支給する方針を労働組合に伝えた。 All Nippon Airways told its labor union on Wednesday of its plan to pay winter bonuses for the first time in three years.

All Nippon Airways told its labor union on Wednesday of its plan to pay winter bonuses for the first time in three years.

HPD is investigating a stabbing that happened late last night at Schofield Barracks. All Nippon Airways has resumed its jumbo jet flights from Japan's Narita Airport to Honolulu. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Andrew Maloney is a Downtown Cincinnati Specialist Certified Tourism Ambassador. Andrew has lived and worked in the Urban core of Cincinnati for over 10 years. Working in Hospitality and as an Experimental Producer, he has managed activations at some of the World's biggest events for clients including; Kroger at The 2020 NBA All-Star Game, and All Nippon Airways with Steve Aioki in New York City Kroger at Morehouse College Homecoming in Atlanta. Proctor and Gamble for Light Up Fountain Square, and many more.He uses his extensive marketing and creative background to think outside of the box and effectively problem solve when marketing for brands and events. He has taken the skills he has learned in the theatre, hospitality, and marketing industries to bring high-touch service to his clients and the other agents he works with, as well as the ability to market his properties in extremely creative and innovative ways.This also means that he stays ahead of trends, just like a marketer would. Andrew is an expert on where the market is headed when it comes to investment opportunities for his clients. That could include web3 technologies like land in the metaverse or helping his clients identify flip opportunities. He discusses all of this and more on this episode of the Side Hustle City Podcast. Make sure to listen and subscribe.If you're interested in contacting Andrew please send him an email at:andrewmaloney89@gmail.com or MaloneySoldMine.com.Also, connect with Andrew on LinkedIn.Support the show

Mark Tippin is a published author, internationally-recognized keynote speaker and instructor in remote collaboration, human-centered design and visual facilitation. He is currently the Director, Strategic Next Practices at MURAL and a certified Lead Instructor at LUMA Institute. He brings over two decades of experience helping teams unlock their potential to lead powerful conversations in their organizations. Mark believes facilitation is the quintessential 21st-century skill and that extending those talents online to distributed teams is more important than ever. He has led design teams and facilitated transformation events with enterprise brands including Autodesk, Netflix, Mayo Clinic, IBM and All Nippon Airways. Previously, he was the senior manager of UX at Autodesk overseeing its cloud platforms. Mark has spoken at key industry events, delivering the keynote on The Future of Visual Facilitation for the International Forum of Visual Practitioners (IFVP), the keynote for Evolving Enterprise Design at Thomson Reuters and Working Visually at Autodesk's Design X Summit. Timestamp 2:13 Mark's journey into UX design 17:51 How Mark spends his free time 22:49 Mark sharing things that makes him excited everyday - LUMA 25:05 Mark's future vision and mission 34:20 The figure that Mark wishes to be 39:13 Tips on pivoting in life and getting through challenges Social Media Mark's Linkedin https://www.linkedin.com/in/marktippin/ MURAL Linkedin https://www.linkedin.com/company/mural.co/ MURAL Website https://www.mural.co/ Follow Patti Dobrowolski - Instagramhttps://www.instagram.com/upyourcreativegenius/ Follow Patti Dobrowolski - Linkedin https://www.linkedin.com/in/patti-dobrowolski-532368/ Up Your Creative Geniushttps://www.upyourcreativegenius.com/ Patti Dobrowolski 00:03 Hello superstars. Welcome to the Up Your Creative Genius podcast where you will gain insight and tips to stomp on the accelerator and blast off to transform your business and your life. I'm your host Patti Dobrowolski. And if this is your first time tuning in, then strap in because this is serious rocket fuel. Each week I interview fellow creative geniuses to help you learn how easy it is to Up Your Creative Genius in any part of your life. Hey, everybody, oh my gosh, I have Mark Tippin here. I told him really, I believe he's like Gordon McKenzie in the book orbiting the giant hairball.  If you've never read that book, then you don't know what I'm talking about. But I will say this, that Mark Tippin and Gordon McKenzie, they're both really creative geniuses in that they help people to kind of problem solve at this bigger level, like they are the Ideator 10x, right, or 100x.  And so you know, let me just say a little bit about Mark, before we get started, he is a published author. He's an international speaker. He's an instructor and remote communicator and collaborator. And he's the director of the strategic next practices at mural, which is an online collaboration platform, which is awesome. And he's also an instructor at Luma. And what he does is he helps teams to unlock their potential by leading these powerful conversations. And what I love about you is we're in alignment about this that facilitation is the skill that you want to learn in the 21st century as we are getting further and further into it, because you want to be able to have these conversations with people that are authentic, where you actually listen as a leader, and that you help guide the conversation to a better, bigger place. So please put your hands together to help me welcome Mark Tippin. Yes, Mark. Mark Tippin 02:11 Thank you so much, Patti. What a delight to be here. Patti Dobrowolski 02:13 Gosh, I'm so happy to have you here. You know, it's funny, because you were head of UX at Autodesk. And you know, my friend, Phil Shepper. Worked at Autodesk for many, many years. And so I used to go out there all the time to Autodesk, you know, and eat lunch and stuff like that. So, yeah, I'm glad you're at mural now. But tell people who you are like, What are you up to? Where do you come from? Why are you here? Mark Tippin 02:37 You bet. Well, everyone can start if they want to see roots, do a Google search, or Mark Tippin and Punk those two words together. And you'll see me back in the day with the Mohawk playing shows in the Bay Area and being part of a DIY community in high school where, you know, the odd and the quirky. And the interesting and the creative, had a bonded together and I started a band because I wanted to do the flyers, I wanted the T shirts I wanted to do. Patti Dobrowolski 03:03 Oh my God, I love it. Mark Tippin 03:06 And we didn't know how to play. So we have a numbering system where it was like number of string and fret and we'd pass notes in the hallways. And when we got together, we'd actually then figure out so what's the syncopation? What is this about? But that I also, you know, my dad handed me in eighth grade a copy of two Alvin Toffler books, Future Shock and third wave. And he said, you're going to be really different than mine. And he was born in 1928. So big generation different. I was born in 68, kind of that big, tumultuous year in America's history. But yes, so I appreciated that because they set me up for success. I had an Atari 800 computer, I typed 1000s of lines of code, yes, you know, antic magazine, all the stuff. Patti Dobrowolski 03:52 Yeah. Mark Tippin 03:52 And it led me on a course where, what I appreciated about design and having two older sisters that were both very accomplished designers, kind of seeing how you could take visual skills and then apply them to storytel or to consolidate some aesthetic into an icon and that stuff fascinated me. Patti Dobrowolski 04:12 Yeah, yeah. Mark Tippin 04:12 But always the technology was right there too. Patti Dobrowolski 04:15 Yes. Fantastic. I love that. Now we're gonna be side by side. I like it. Mark Tippin 04:21 It's interesting, because when you mentioned Autodesk, I have this unique vantage point their toes, I did two tours of duty one was in the 90s. Before the internet. Patti Dobrowolski 04:31 Yeah. Mark Tippin 04:31 So that was CD ROM authoring and seeing the birth of UX design, when it was in an eight bit studio programme designing what are the buttons look like when the highlights on the top versus the bottom? Very, yes, yes. Oh, what are the affordances mice were available then, but this whole new What is this human machine interface thing? And then I went and did a couple startups and then I was invited back in 2010. And it was like a Parallel Universe Marvel universe where I bet 90s No one except for architects new auditor. Patti Dobrowolski 05:07 That's right. That's right. I mean, you know, there was no CAD yet. Right. Autodesk didn't have it. It was like a brand new thing that was getting developed. Yeah. Mark Tippin 05:16 That's right. The merger and acquisition, right. Yeah, we're in the Hollywood effects, even though they couldn't talk about it on some projects, because people were still touring. They're investing, Patti Dobrowolski 05:25 you know, but they were so close to Lucasfilm. Right. So there was like, right across the valley there. Yes. Mark Tippin 05:31 And then fast forward. Wow. Instead of having to shuttle you know, if you're doing a sales presentation, something you'd have to shuttle people from SFO all the way through 19th avenue for anyone in the Bay Area, you understand how painful that is? Is your song a dance, and then get them all the way back to the airport? No, they have the gallery, right, which was a powerful way to actually highlight not look at us in our software, it was look at what our customers are doing with giving them that's humbling. I mean, some of it was how to build an incubator, to cut down infant mortality using parts that were available through a culture that really understood how to keep old cars running. So it's a car battery. It's a headlamp, and you really saw design come alive, and it'd be appropriate technology. So it was there. Ironically. Patti Dobrowolski 06:21 That was always that where you became a design thinker. Mark Tippin 06:24 It was because I. Patti Dobrowolski 06:25 It was right when design thinking was becoming a thing. Mark Tippin 06:29 Absolutely. It was unique, because it was ground zero for several things. Autodesk was at this point where in the 90s, it was Diso systems, it was these big other enterprise, right, that everyone was like, that's our competition. Well, 2010, we realised we're actually in competition against our users that cobbling together workflows from the internet, makes it possible can get your hands on. And so we intentionally needed to disrupt ourselves. And we needed to change business models, and all that kind of stuff. So I had a team that actually span 12 time zones. Tel Aviv. Oh, wow, Hyderabad, India, nice. And I was doing this crazy commute from Folsom, California to the other side of Sacramento. On a good day, it's three hours one way a Giants game in San Francisco, it's five and a half hours, crazy. And it sit at a desk, and then do nothing but hop on calls with my team that wasn't in the building with me. And through merger and acquisition, all this talent was being acquired, really, the software is being acquired. And then we have all these people, what do we do with. Patti Dobrowolski 07:32 What do we do with them? Of these? How do we fit them in exam or Cisco is just acquire, acquire, acquire, acquire? No, no, you stay your unique self, and then we'd go in and facilitate for them. And it'd be like, Whoa, that's a shit show. Me but yes, we'll probably have to bleep that out. But well, yes, but truly unbelievable. Mark Tippin 07:51 And so I was trained, or kind of my empathetic nature led me to be a kind of a servant leader, right? Hire people way smarter than you get all the rocks out of the way, set them up for success. And it was a challenge, because if you weren't actually in San Francisco, and around the water cooler, or having that cup of coffee, then your ideas didn't get heard. And if you're outside that domain, you pretty much got relegated to just execute on what was decided. And so I was looking for a way to level the playing field. And that's when I started looking for tools like Mirel. There are a few out there simultaneously Lumo was being brought in Autodesk, which is yes, one of their larger if you go to the Luma site, it's got a nice little showcase on but yeah, exactly. But it was part of a culture transformation where you had the 3D tools for movie studios have a different UI, because they're doing different things than people that are building pipes underneath civic infrastructure in a city, right. And yet the users were spanning across, right. Architects are saying, Yeah, I have to design the bolts and this kind of structural thing. Right, and sell it. I got to put people in there. So I'm using the Hollywood special effects stuff to put. Patti Dobrowolski 09:08 Yeah. Yeah. Mark Tippin 09:09 So they didn't see a distinction between the tools. Although if you don't ship your org structure, exactly. From inside, a totally different team. They're in a different part of the world. Patti Dobrowolski 09:20 Yeah. Mark Tippin 09:21 So there was a lot I was just had the amazing fortune to be right in the middle of this cauldron, and being alumina instructor. And having this crazy commute. I was already trying to figure out how can I do this without so much travel? And I'm running apps and people are flying in from around the world. And they're getting exposed to these wonderful methods. And this is amazing. Now what do I do when I go home to Switzerland to my teams in Italy? And in Toronto? Patti Dobrowolski 09:45 Yes. Mark Tippin 09:46 And I was like, Yeah, that's a darn good question. And so, for me, the nature of human centred design and these methods, and then a tool like Mural that actually gets really special their personas like facilitator, because a key persona, unlike, you know, most other software. Patti Dobrowolski 10:06 Yeah, that's right. And a facilitator really is the key persona in a meeting. Without one, you really just kind of bumble around through the agenda. Because most of you didn't have good meeting management, one on one, right? So you don't understand that you have to have a facilitator and a timekeeper, a note taker, right. But when you have something in an online format, that actually helps to facilitate the process and keep you all engaged, which is the key when we're now in COVID. Right? So you saw the value of that, and then you got involved somehow must have been early on, because you play a key role there now. Mark Tippin 10:46 I get it, it was one of those, you know, I know that you have the people that you've coached, and helped them pivot and certain things, and I happen to be in the middle of that where a massive pivot for me happen. I was a manager of design people. I was getting further and further away from. Patti Dobrowolski 11:03 What you loved me I loved, yeah. Mark Tippin 11:05 At the end of the day, or end of the week. Patti Dobrowolski 11:07 Remember, go back to high school, when the recently had the punk band was the T shirts in the poster. Mark Tippin 11:13 Hands on, making the music right? Patti Dobrowolski 11:16 That's right. And now second fret, second fret. Yeah, two fingers like that. Mark Tippin 11:24 And so at the end of the week, I knew that the team had things that they had touched, and they had made or they had, you know, had a hands on. And I'm looking and saying, Well, I can glory in my team success. But I'm totally separated from this. And it was the insight of my manager at the time, and dream. And Jeannie, who's now at Netflix, she's headed leading design over at Netflix, and she saw an opportunity where you know, you're pretty good. You got some high emotional intelligence, right? You can calm them very voices down. There's a lot of this Patti Dobrowolski 11:57 Human punching bag, punching, and punching bag, and then you take it, and then you turn it into love. That's, frankly, that's human transformation. Mark Tippin 12:07 That's, that's right. Boundaries. Patti Dobrowolski 12:11 It's so true. It's so true. So true. Mark Tippin 12:13 Facilitator journey is dead. Right? You know, but that was a pivot where I realised now instead of trying to stay on top of JavaScript, and databases, and the mechanics of what the web is, yes, there's actually this whole other layer on top of it, which is understanding the right dialogue to have at the right moment. Is it generative, then when it's generative, you have all these ideas? You don't? Yeah, off on the back? You've actually got more work to do how to Patti Dobrowolski 12:42 Yeah, that's right. Mark Tippin 12:44 Understand? Patti Dobrowolski 12:45 Yeah. Mark Tippin 12:45 How do you elevate? How do you pick one thing out and experiment? Patti Dobrowolski 12:49 Yeah. Mark Tippin 12:49 So that you can start the loop over and put it back in front of the car. Patti Dobrowolski 12:52 I can't wait for you to get the game of innovation, that book that I'm part of that I did the illustrations for because you're speaking the language in that book that David Cutler wrote. So it's going to arrive in your door, I think on Friday, so look for that. It's really heavy, and it's colourful, I think you'll like it. Oh, yes. This idea of elevating the right things at the right time in a meeting is essential, or even in a conversation that you're having around the dinner table, right? How do you get to the place where people are actually talking about what's real? Mark Tippin 13:23 That's right, and creating openings for that to happen. And being sensitive to the fact that people are cognitively different, you know, we've inadvertently found these delightful things that happen when the pandemic forced a new set of circumstances on this. Patti Dobrowolski 13:37 Yeah. Mark Tippin 13:37 Suddenly, the chat takes on a different level of importance with people that have something to say, but they don't want to interrupt the show to say it. So there are these multiple layers where people are contributing and getting a voice heard. Voting mechanism, and mural is anonymous. So right away, so much of the games we play in a colocated cohort to like, Okay, everyone, get it in your mind count to three, and then everyone go at the same time to try and remove the bias. Patti Dobrowolski 14:07 Yes, yeah. Mark Tippin 14:08 Follow the Leader. Well, it just happens now. Patti Dobrowolski 14:11 We have so I have the tools to do it. Right. And that's part of it. Well, what I love about that is in the evolution of what's happened with Mural, so for those of you that don't know what mural is, you should just Google it. Mural.co. And in there, you'll find isn't that what it is? Or is it yeah, Mural.co. And in there, you'll see that it's a virtual platform in which you can play and you can structure your meetings in such a way that you have much more engagement interaction you can, there are templates that you can pull in and you can do all kinds of design and, you know, I've been experimenting with using it with clients so that we can, I don't know deepen the conversation, but in both a visual and a audio way, auditory, right. Mark Tippin 14:59 Well, it's When the pandemic hit, there was a steep learning curve. And we don't acknowledge the ones that were suddenly there were, you know, adults who are also learning to be educators and nutritionists and everything suddenly. Patti Dobrowolski 15:12 Oh, my God. Mark Tippin 15:13 But even just coming up to speed on, you know, video conferencing tools, that was something new. And that helped. But I can see you and it's nice to see you, Patti. And it's Yeah, yep. Facilitator we definitely use it. Patti Dobrowolski 15:29 I mean, we always did conference calls, right? But they just aren't very valuable when you know, you can zoom, right? Or use teams are whatever platform they like, right? Mark Tippin 15:38 But you put this space in between us where we can both kind of reach through the glass and have something and now I can see what you mean. Right. You can actually, we can take any topic where we think we're aligned. Patti Dobrowolski 15:51 Yes. Mark Tippin 15:52 And you say, okay, cool. What's the order of that process that you think? Patti Dobrowolski 15:55 Yeah, yeah. Put it into some semblance. Yes. I love that. Yeah. Mark Tippin 15:59 And that's not it at all. Patti Dobrowolski 16:02 Yeah, exactly. I wasn't saying that. Where did you get that idea. But I love that because I think, and I can't wait for technology to improve even more. And then now, you know, today, I went and bought a video thing. So I could use my iPad while I was working in Mural so that I could draw in a really great picture because I'm a live illustrator. So I often, even if I'm in mural, and I'm doing the zoom, I'm drawing right here, because you can see how vibrant that is to see it. And there's something about being able to use real pastel that people go, Oh, my God, that looks so fantastic. And what they don't realise is that colour imprints on your brain. And then if you really love something, even if you draw a simple picture that you love, you will remember it, you know, 80 times better than anything else, right? Mark Tippin 16:53 Absolutely. Patti Dobrowolski 16:54 And so if you take a snapshot, like sometimes we'll be doing a session, where I'll be learning some mural process, somebody will share something, and I'll take a screenshot, I'm like, Ah, my gosh, how did they do that? That's fantastic. Because of course, I want to draw it right. Mark Tippin 17:10 Well, I think all the methods, you know, that are generative, you get, you know, 16, 20 people in the session, you give them two minutes, and they each generate one note, a minute or more. Patti Dobrowolski 17:21 Yes. Mark Tippin 17:21 That's a lot of information density. And, so I always encourage people, because you can draw on the notes to as opposed to just typing texting, right. And even the simplest little rudimentary squiggle, your brain has vastly more capacity to differentiate and to remember the sights and smells and language in that moment, when the discussion happens. Patti Dobrowolski 17:44 That's right. Mark Tippin 17:45 Then the text and information density actually becomes parsable. When it's visual. Patti Dobrowolski 17:51 Yeah, yeah, I love that now. So I want to know, like, when you are just being you out there, and you're doing your job, what is your favourite thing to do? Well, if you had free time to do anything, what would you do? What do you do? Mark Tippin 18:09 So in my free time, I gravitate heavily towards music, just because that's usually so far aside of the work, the pressure, the commerce side of it, that that's interesting, and where I kind of recharge. But I am also very fortunate, I'm going to mispronounce it, but iki guy, right, this guy. Patti Dobrowolski 18:30 Yeah. So you've got that iki guy going, Mark Tippin 18:33 I took me 53 years to find out what I wanted to do with my life. And it's kind of right now, this unique situation, where I find myself is something I enjoy doing. I enjoy working with people understand the problems, laying out a sequence of conversations or methods, if you want to call it so that you harvest the collective genius in the room, right? I love that moment. I discovered I didn't have to have all the answers. I just had to create the space where the ideas would come from the people in the discussion, and trust the process that we're going to do something amazing. Because I value you and we're creating a space where we can kind of open up and share and be authentic and the radical candour and call BS on each. Patti Dobrowolski 19:19 Yeah. Mark Tippin 19:20 All in the service of being passionate about the challenge. Patti Dobrowolski 19:24 Well, it's been hardest for you in this virtual environment. You've been in what's been hardest for you. Mark Tippin 19:31 I'm not very good with names. And organisational savvy is something that it's a tool that if you can bring up names on the fly, I was always the slow thinker, the one who, you know the bully at school says the mean thing and like two hours later, I'm riding the bus. Patti Dobrowolski 19:50 I shouldn't say this, that I know how to get that guy back. Mark Tippin 19:54 So that facility with the names I can draw them. I know what they look like I know what they had before. Breakfast in their favourite candy bar. I know all this stuff, but like the names that elude me. And so, but names are important, and they are a way to engender respect and start that creating that space of acknowledgement and everything. Yeah, so that's one of the things where I do a lot of extra heavy lifting. Patti Dobrowolski 20:18 I was gonna say, Do you ever do that, you know, when I started to run virtual sessions, where we didn't have zoom, and it would just be me with the phone. And then I'd have all my trainees there, you know, I would write and draw a picture of them what I thought they might look like on a post it and I laid them all out on the table in front of me. See, there it is. Because I think sometimes, well, it really does matter to people that you remember their name. Mark Tippin 20:43 Yeah. Patti Dobrowolski 20:44 It also matters that you remember things about them, like I was on a, I don't know where I was, but the person I was interviewing was talking about how you could tell if somebody really cared about you enough to remember your children and their names. And I thought, Oh, my God, like, that was like a stone, like hitting me on the head. And I was like, Yep, you're gonna remember her son's names. That's all there is to it. You're gonna go find them out. And then you get to see what they're up to on Facebook, because you can find him and go from there. Right? But I think it does matter. Especially wouldn't you say, mark in the world where it's so chaotic right now with all the stimulation. People are? They're very distractible. Mark Tippin 21:26 Absolutely. And the smallest kindnesses are really felt now, I mean, I'm, I got, you know, a handwritten thank you note for a kind of relatively innocuous thing. And that was, I mean, that completely made my day because I understood that someone had to have the presence of mind actually be thankful enough to stop their FOMO and Twitter, whatever to stop and write something and find my address somewhere, yeah, put a stamp on it. So little things do matter. And I think that's part of this massive, great recalibration, or whatever we're going to call it is, people are kind of pulling out of the 80s, meaning keeping up with the Joneses, and all this kind of consumers data control stuff and getting present to what really matters. And people want to have value, and they want to be doing things that are of value. And I think we're in a hinge time between a market economy where we still got to make money, but we're shifting towards a mindset economy. Patti Dobrowolski 22:30 Yeah. Well, we knew this was coming. Right. So you know, I think Malcolm Gladwell, or one of them, you know, predicted this, that they would be a mindset economy, although they didn't use that term. I don't know. You probably coined that term, but I like it. He's got a book right here. He's gonna show it to us. Mark Tippin 22:47 Well, it's Yeah, yeah. Patti Dobrowolski 22:49 Oh, yeah. Fantastic. Collaborative intelligence, if you didn't catch that book, when he held it up, for those of you that are just listening in the podcast, collaborative intelligence. And so when you think about where things are going and headed, what are you excited about? What excites you and get you up every day? Mark Tippin 23:07 Well, it's funny that this comes up occasionally, when we you know, I talk with other facilitators, and I'm curious what drives them as well. For me, it's fairly simple. When I was leading these workshops with Luma. Patti Dobrowolski 23:18 We were playing what Luma is for those people that don't know who Luma is, or they're not in that world, yeah, me who's Luma. Mark Tippin 23:25 So Luma Institute was founded as a spin out actually from my a design that was acquired by Boston Consulting Group and dear friend of mine, Mickey McManus, he's the author of trillions, and he's very much. Patti Dobrowolski 23:37 Dropped just then just catching up. I just want you to know his friend, Mickey. Mark Tippin 23:44 So yeah, someone who'll occasionally take my phone call when he um, I swear lives in the future. And you'll come every once a while go, you should be looking at thinking thinking, Well, I love that I love that. They were running these workshops that you and I would recognise today as kind of human centred design thinking workshops, and clients were saying, this is fantastic. Could we learn how to do this? Patti Dobrowolski 24:03 Yes. Mark Tippin 24:04 And most consultancies, when faced with that challenge would go, Huh, we teach you to do it, then we cannibalise our revenue. But there's a third way and what they did is they actually founded and spun out a complete separate entity that focused on teaching people to fish and so Patti Dobrowolski 24:19 Yeah, yeah. Mark Tippin 24:20 Chris Patagonia and Bill Lucas and Pete Mahara are the founders. And they went and looked at 1000s of design thinking methods. And everyone at the time, if you remember, you go to Amazon and do a search for a book, you'd get two books that would show up 1001 design thinking methods and exactly another 1001. It was just like, where do you start? Patti Dobrowolski 24:43 Well, exactly. Mark Tippin 24:44 They boiled it down to a very neatly done taxonomy that really, it kind of is steeped down to the essential ways of if you think of their name, Luma - looking, understanding, making, and activating right. Patti Dobrowolski 24:59 Fantastic. Mark Tippin 25:00 So yeah, that process of actually going and observing, so user research and those kinds of. Patti Dobrowolski 25:05 Versus a mall, which is backwards activating, which is most what most people, myself included being an activator, we're gonna get going first and then go backwards and figure out where you blew it. Right? Hello. All right. So that's who Luma is. And so part of it when you think about the future, then what inspires you about that and where things are going, I'm sorry, I distracted you from that direction. So bring us back there to the future you. Mark Tippin 25:32 My Ravel brain? Patti Dobrowolski 25:34 No, no, no, I'm refocusing because I went down that rabbit hole with you. I led to the rabbit hole, and then I pointed go down. Well, you, Mark, please tell us about Luma. And then everything else. Okay. All right. So the future that you're excited about? Mark Tippin 25:50 So the future I'm excited about is I've seen firsthand how those that could afford it would get the benefit of these types of workshops and the education and a company that would buy in and fund steeping in this wonderful Bronto of design thinking. And yes, but every time I was in the Uber heading towards the big, shiny building on the hill, where I was doing my workshop, I'd see all of these small businesses. Yes. Now I wasn't sitting there thinking I can save them. Patti Dobrowolski 26:20 Oh, no, no, no now, but yeah, but we're thinking, what can we do to help these businesses be successful? Mark Tippin 26:26 Exactly. So the democratisation of access to guided methods and a platform where you and activate their conversations that help you actually get to well framed questions, or exhaustion is makes all the difference as a credit question gets you a lot of clarity, none, Patti Dobrowolski 26:46 Right, right. Mark Tippin 26:47 Framing it in a way where you go, that's a problem we're solving is the beginning of an amazing journey that you can invite those people into, and it changes everything, it changes. Patti Dobrowolski 26:57 I love that. And so if you're not a design thinking person, it's really about framing the problem in a lot of ways, and then ideating a solution to that problem. And then iterating, anything that you mock up to make sure that it actually works, because most of the time, you know, we create things in our basement. And we know that our mom loves them. So they've got to be good for the rest of the world. And we come up with these things. And then no, they're not. But when you can actually test things and try them come up with a real problem that you're solving, then you come up with something like Uber, that's what's true. And then you can compare it to lift, and you can see how they're different. And one has its own built in mapping software so that you know, it's not outsourced and things like this. These make a big difference. So you're excited about this part of the future. Your people, entrepreneurs understand design thinking. Mark Tippin 27:58 Yeah, I mean, each have our own sphere of influence, right? Patti Dobrowolski 28:01 Yeah, well, okay. All right, well, then, let's test this with you. So what's the biggest problem that you've been solving? Mark Tippin 28:08 So recently, I designed the XU love, I shaped herself, she has a wonderful thing that, that she convenes every once in a while. Patti Dobrowolski 28:17 Who? Say again, say again. Okay, good. Mark Tippin 28:21 She's known as the Queen of toilets, because she's an adult. But the challenge that she said, you can plug anything you want into that statement. So the x is a variable. And I said it was a family dynamic, was the thing that we went through. And so part of it is two years into a pandemic. And we all feel like Bill Murray, in Groundhog Day hitting the clock and going he over and over and over again, how do you actually intentionally create a dynamic in the family that is really your closest to and provides you the support? And that should actually be the best? And sometimes it's put under the strain? Because it's the one you assume will always be there? Patti Dobrowolski 29:02 Or yes, you take it for granted. Mark Tippin 29:05 Take it for granted. And, you know, humans are humans and that isn't a. Patti Dobrowolski 29:09 No, no, you have to create something there. All right. So that led you to understand. Mark Tippin 29:16 Yeah, so that led me to understand that, that it's not the kind of the Hail Mary, you know, oh, can I order that off Amazon? Can I fix that with you know, I actually have to go put some intention in there. Patti Dobrowolski 29:27 Yeah, yeah. Are you talking about your family right now? Right. Mark Tippin 29:30 No, yeah. Patti Dobrowolski 29:31 Oh, okay. Good. Cuz you know, you're a guy. So you're talking around this, and I want to go in? Oh, I like to get a deep. So you're talking about your family. It's interesting, because I was telling my wife this morning, I was saying, you know, this pandemic brought us closer than we've ever been, and which is kind of a miracle because she's commanded, I'm demanding, you know what I mean? And that was the dynamic when we first got married, we had to have command cards. And on one side they would say command and on the other side, they would say I don't even remember what it was, but it was something like truth or ask or you know, I don't know what they, you could only got a certain number of command cards before they were taken away and you couldn't. You couldn't do it anymore in a day. That's right. Well, yeah. Mark Tippin 30:15 Even acknowledging one of the reasons why the dynamic works is because my background and my family, a lot of talking a lot of stuff being said, a lot of verbosity and loquacious. pneus. And you know, and. Patti Dobrowolski 30:31 If you know what that word means loquacious, yes, it's a lot of talking. Mark Tippin 30:35 Talking, talking incessantly. But actually saying stuff of impact or. Patti Dobrowolski 30:40 Yeah. Mark Tippin 30:41 And a lot of circuitous type understanding. Do they mean that? Or should I say this to suggest that so, you know, whereas to the point? Patti Dobrowolski 30:52 Yeah. Get down to it, honey. I mean, you're going on and on about that enough context? Get to the point, right? Mark Tippin 30:58 There is something well. Patti Dobrowolski 30:59 Yeah. Mark Tippin 31:00 Yeah, say what you mean, you know, it's a journey. And you know, certainly in the job that I do and what I'm asked to do as a facilitator, this kind of verbal grease is sometimes helpful to draw in the shy folks and all that kind of stuff. It can border line on abusiveness, if you just. Patti Dobrowolski 31:17 Do it too much, if you do it too much. Yeah, yeah, like this. I love that you're talking about this, because as a facilitator, it's a fine line that you walk between telling a personal story, and actually getting them to talk to each other and talk to you. And sometimes you do it, tell the personal story to break the ice, or to let them know that you are credible, I was thinking about that credibility, or you set it up in a way where you create a problem for them to be thinking about right then. And can you how many of you can relate and you haven't raised their hand. So this is a way engagement technique, right? But you can't do that with your family. You know, with your loved ones, you have to really ask them a question, and then listen to what they have to say. And stop trying to solve the problem. Just listen, right? Mark Tippin 32:10 Absolutely. And they know all your tricks, right? I did this with my dad, where we got to the point where he'd start. He'd say the first three words, and they go, yeah, that story. 42. Now that story 147. Yep, we've heard them all. And my family is now I'm getting the same treatment like, yeah, you know, you've told me that before. Patti Dobrowolski 32:11 I know it, I know it. Well, it's good to peel back the layers of that stuff, I think to get to, you know, it's okay to sit in silence. I think this is so hard for people to, you know, this is what we did before we had the internet. And our phone is that people would actually have a conversation, they would enjoy the meal, they would sit in silence at night, and they might read a book, you know what I mean? And these are, what this is about is a certain kind of stillness that we've moved away from, what do you think of that? Mark Tippin 33:04 I heard recently just reminded me, I need to find the author of the quote, but it was a silence as a sound of trust. And I thought that's interesting. Patti Dobrowolski 33:12 Silence is a what? Mark Tippin 33:14 Is the sound of trust of trust? Yeah, super uncomfortable. And but, but yeah, and what you're talking about with enjoying the meal, there is, I can't believe I made it, you know, into my 50s. Before learning, nutritionally, what happens when you actually eat slower, and why it's important to breathe while you eat. Patti Dobrowolski 33:35 And masticate frequently, I mean, like you're supposed to chew, remember, when they told you, you know, you chew it 50 times, or 25 times or 30 times. But in fact, the healthier digestive system. Mark Tippin 33:48 You're actually the oxygen you're putting into your body while it's doing the work down there isn't putting more fuel, oxygen burns, you're actually putting more oxygen into the stuff that your body is storing, and making it higher quality? I was like, I feel like there's an instruction manual. Patti Dobrowolski 34:06 Yeah, I think that's your next book. You know, you've written all these other books, so why not write that book? Because that book I think people would be very interested in? Mark Tippin 34:16 Well, I would basically, it would be a list of other people's, Mark, David. Patti Dobrowolski 34:20 Of course, I was gonna say like, really whatever. And it would be based on what your preferences because everybody, you could follow one person's expertise or another, and everybody's body is different. And to me, this is about even as we try to pivot from one thing to another. What I want to do and pivot into is going to be vastly different from maybe even the person I was yesterday. Does that make sense? And so I've been trying to treat these different, you know, years as a different person that I was because I think it's easier to understand that you are not your personality, that you can have a personality, but that you're malleable and you'll change all the time. And you for sure have changed because you were a guy who was in a punk band doing this. And then you were like UX expertise and now your strategic next practices at Mural. And, you know, I mean, so when you think about who that you want to step into, what would that who look like? Mark Tippin 35:30 Well, it's interesting as the hair gets grey hair, and as I'm, you know, reminded that there are more years between me and when I had a mohawk than I think there are in my head, I think there's a few more steps, I would love to see the emerging technology be developed in a space where the human relation, intelligence that happens, the things that facilitators do, and the methods or the conversations or whatever you want to package it, the technology allows people to step through a series of inquiries or input an output, that those things are actually seen as one and that the fulfilment of the lower half of the Maslow's hierarchy, which has been eroded our sense of belonging and a lot of cavities over the last few years that are preventing us from being that fully self actualized ready to go get them person, we need to do some healing there. But when you look at that, and inverts into another pyramid above, which is how do groups become actualized? Right? How do we go from being a GarageBand into being, you know, the Pat Metheny group or, you know, choose your own artists? That is at the peak as a team is at the peak of their practice. They have the skill in pocket, but now they're inventing and creating and. Patti Dobrowolski 36:49 Yeah, with freedom. And, you know, I think that's part of it. I love that. Sorry, did I interrupt what you're about to say? Because I felt like there was more. So it's like going from this GarageBand to the Pat Metheny group, or whoever it is Beyonce or whoever your favourite is, right. Mark Tippin 37:04 The point there being I guess the thing I've also factor in here is in I remember, the 70s gas lines, right? Cars backed up in gas shortages? Patti Dobrowolski 37:13 Yes, of course. So I was pumping gas back then I was probably filling your tank. Just FYI. That's right. Michelle, there I was, okay. Mark Tippin 37:24 We've had many opportunities to kind of address the big challenges that are central to survival as a species, and we keep kicking that can down the road. And so I don't know about you, but a lot of facilitated sessions, you seem to have a lot of the same conversations over again, okay, let's do another value statement. Let's do another team chart or something like so you can kind of waste a lot of time with conversations that are kind of fundamental. Can we get beyond that? And get aligned and really work in a like a teal sense or something about what is the good for us? Good for the customer? Good for the planet? Yeah, that's the thing that I read your Patti Dobrowolski 38:03 puppy, you know that your puppy profit people planet? Yeah. Okay, I love that I'm in on that. I also think that part of what I think that you are probably excited about too, is the thought that we could be in a virtual reality together, that next time that we are together, we are actually standing facing each other. We might have an Oculus on but we are standing there talking to each other in such a way that we feel like we are in a virtual space. And so that the Jetsons actually come into reality, this is my hope that in my lifetime, I can actually see that happen, you know, and that we are talking about things that matter. Not things that are superficial. Mark Tippin 38:46 Well, you hit that right on the nose, because the things that I'm most excited about. And we're experimenting, Steve Schofield, in our labs team is doing really interesting things. The things that I love is the VR tools are being handed not to game designers, not for another first person shooter. They're being handed to facilitators. Patti Dobrowolski 39:04 Yeah. Mark Tippin 39:04 They're coming up with immersive, shared experiences around these well framed questions. Patti Dobrowolski 39:10 Yeah. Mark Tippin 39:11 Those are games worth playing. Patti Dobrowolski 39:13 Definitely, I'm with you there. Now, if you were going to, if you were going to give any tips to people that were listening, now, you've pivoted a couple different times in your career. So but if you in this day and age, if somebody is out there that needs to make some kind of a change, what tip would you give them? What would you suggest? Mark Tippin 39:33 You need to find someone that you can trust, who will call you on your BS, and you know, and tell you a real friend, right? One that'll let you get away with it until it's not good for you to get away with it, and then they'll call you on it. And you need to find out more ideally, if they're people you actually work with. If it's a job pivot that you're talking about. You can do a personal pivot or there are all sorts of pivots, but you need feedback on how they see you what your superpowers are that you're probably not present to, or you don't value because it's very easy for you. And it can be eye opening. And that was a huge pivot for me at Autodesk. And another thing we did was having only deal with the positive. We weren't critiquing. We were just like, here's what's amazing about you got to share it with other people. And there were tears, it was very emotional. Patti Dobrowolski 40:22 Yes. Mark Tippin 40:23 But we're, like, suddenly present this amazing thing that people valued them. Patti Dobrowolski 40:28 Yeah. Mark Tippin 40:28 That thing. And that allowed me to drop my panic over staying on top of the tech and being able to code. And I realised, that's not my value, my value is in this other emerging facilitation thing. It's in the taking those skills about the empathy and the team building and the creating that space for the conversation and having enough of an interest of curiosity and the background. Yeah, to be able to create that space. Yeah, that was a fundamental pivot that it is, yeah, is a side gig. Patti Dobrowolski 41:05 Well, and I would say that, that in a way that your superpower that you can't see, right, it's on a door. And all you have to do is have somebody's point, sometimes to the door, and then you just walk through it and see what's in there. And that I think, is the beauty of life is that you have these, you know, reflective tools that you've surrounded yourself with, these are people, but they actually are a great reflection of you because water rises to its level. So you're always going to be surrounded by people who reflect some part of yourself, even if they irritate you, that's part of you. And so if you can figure out how to get feedback from them, and learn from them and grow, I think this is like, that's such a great tip Mark, I love that. I have to say, I have loved spending time talking to you. And I felt like we just got to one little piece of it. But I would love to as I and continue to open up the mural box and see what else is in there. And then we go into more of a VR space, I want to come back here. And then I want to talk about that. Because that in and of itself is something very exciting, that I'd love to get your perspective on. Mark Tippin 42:18 I'd be happy to anytime, Patti. Patti Dobrowolski 42:21 All right, well, I loved having you here, Mark, and you know, everybody that's listening, be sure to look in the show notes. So you can figure out how to get you know, connected with Mark and follow him you know, see what he's up to on Mural, he just, you know, spoke at a big conference. So you want to see and follow him on LinkedIn because he's doing a lot of cool stuff, and always posting something interesting. So I look forward to seeing you again, Mark, thanks for spending time with us. And you know, everybody out there you know what to do? Go out there and until next time Up Your Creative Genius, right? Mark Tippin 42:55 Right. Patti Dobrowolski 42:59 Thanks so much for listening today. Be sure to DM me on Instagram your feedback or takeaways from today's episode on Up Your Creative Genius. Then join me next week for more rocket fuel. Remember, you are the superstar of your universe and the world needs what you have to bring. So get busy. Get out and Up Your Creative Genius. And no matter where you are in the universe, here's some big love from yours truly Patti Dobrowolski and the Up Your Creative Genius podcast. That's a wrap.

In this episode of Money Tales, our guest is Kraig Kann. As a child, Kraig dreamt of becoming a professional sportscaster. That's all he wanted to do, and sure enough, that's what he did. Kraig became a huge success. He enjoyed a 25-year television career, including 17 years at Golf Channel/NBC. Kraig was one of the first to interview Tiger Woods as Tiger turned professional, he was hanging with Arnold Palmer, and he was living his dream. But life is hard, and things outside of our control happen all the time. The real estate market imploded just as Kraig's contract came up for renewal, forcing him to draw on his creativity and entrepreneurial spirit to make some purposeful shifts. Kraig founded Kann Advisory Group in 2016 and serves as Managing Director of the organization providing strategic media, marketing and communications consulting plus media training, branding and presentation skills coaching. His vast experience on all sides of the media including years as both a network television personality and C-Suite sports executive make him an industry influencer, respected spokesperson and requested speaker. After a 25-year television career that included 17 at Golf Channel/NBC where he was an original on-air member and ultimately the lead studio host, Kraig made a career pivot and elevated the Ladies Professional Golf Association as its Chief Communications Officer from 2011-2016.  His time in front of the camera and comfort interviewing athletes, politicians and corporate executives positioned him as a unique voice on the LPGA's board and helped him strategically lead the organization's branding and marketing efforts across all media platforms during five years of unprecedented growth that included recognition in 2015 as finalist for “Sports League of the Year” by Sports Business Journal. During his tenure, Kraig led media and marketing communication partnerships between the LPGA and its list of global corporate sponsors that included KPMG, KIA, Manulife Financial, UL, All Nippon Airways, LOTTE, Rolex and CME Group, building strategic outreach and activation plans while delivering new levels of international media attention.  He involved media in major news events, coached players to build their own brands and positioned social media as a vital organizational marketing resource resulting in a combined growth of more than 900% over four years. Kraig has been featured twice by SBJ as an industry communications leader and his platform of contributions includes design and delivery of a collaborative “grow the game” message as a member of Golf 20/20 and also a lead spot on the International Golf Federation Communications Committee for the 2016 Rio Olympics where he raised awareness for golf's return to the Olympic Games and hosted golf's press conferences on a worldwide stage. Kann's platform has widened significantly with roles as the weekly show host of Connected with Kraig Kann on SiriusXM, his growing podcast Tracks To Success, and the January 2021 release of his book Can You Get Our Attention? which quickly reached Top 20 status on the Amazon Best Seller List and was recognized as a finalist at the 2021 International Book Awards while winning top honors at the 2021 San Francisco Book Festival and New York Book Festival and earning the silver medal from Reader's' Favorite as “Best New Book 2021 – Marketing” A sought-after motivational speaker, his keynotes and popular “Elevate Workshop” have drawn rave reviews from the likes of Accenture, Transamerica, Titleist, SAP, KPMG, Zurich, Gallagher, Diamond Resorts, PGA of America, CoSIDA and others. His thought leadership led to a feature story in Soar to Success magazine and also grabbed the attention of PR News, Sports PR Summit, and Forbes, who have identified him as an influential speaker, featured industry panelist, council member and content contributor in the areas of media and public relations, public speaking and strategic communications.

In this episode of Money Tales, our guest is Kraig Kann. As a child, Kraig dreamt of becoming a professional sportscaster. That's all he wanted to do, and sure enough, that's what he did. Kraig became a huge success. He enjoyed a 25-year television career, including 17 years at Golf Channel/NBC. Kraig was one of the first to interview Tiger Woods as Tiger turned professional, he was hanging with Arnold Palmer, and he was living his dream. But life is hard, and things outside of our control happen all the time. The real estate market imploded just as Kraig's contract came up for renewal, forcing him to draw on his creativity and entrepreneurial spirit to make some purposeful shifts. Kraig founded Kann Advisory Group in 2016 and serves as Managing Director of the organization providing strategic media, marketing and communications consulting plus media training, branding and presentation skills coaching. His vast experience on all sides of the media including years as both a network television personality and C-Suite sports executive make him an industry influencer, respected spokesperson and requested speaker. After a 25-year television career that included 17 at Golf Channel/NBC where he was an original on-air member and ultimately the lead studio host, Kraig made a career pivot and elevated the Ladies Professional Golf Association as its Chief Communications Officer from 2011-2016.  His time in front of the camera and comfort interviewing athletes, politicians and corporate executives positioned him as a unique voice on the LPGA's board and helped him strategically lead the organization's branding and marketing efforts across all media platforms during five years of unprecedented growth that included recognition in 2015 as finalist for “Sports League of the Year” by Sports Business Journal. During his tenure, Kraig led media and marketing communication partnerships between the LPGA and its list of global corporate sponsors that included KPMG, KIA, Manulife Financial, UL, All Nippon Airways, LOTTE, Rolex and CME Group, building strategic outreach and activation plans while delivering new levels of international media attention.  He involved media in major news events, coached players to build their own brands and positioned social media as a vital organizational marketing resource resulting in a combined growth of more than 900% over four years. Kraig has been featured twice by SBJ as an industry communications leader and his platform of contributions includes design and delivery of a collaborative “grow the game” message as a member of Golf 20/20 and also a lead spot on the International Golf Federation Communications Committee for the 2016 Rio Olympics where he raised awareness for golf's return to the Olympic Games and hosted golf's press conferences on a worldwide stage. Kann's platform has widened significantly with roles as the weekly show host of Connected with Kraig Kann on SiriusXM, his growing podcast Tracks To Success, and the January 2021 release of his book Can You Get Our Attention? which quickly reached Top 20 status on the Amazon Best Seller List and was recognized as a finalist at the 2021 International Book Awards while winning top honors at the 2021 San Francisco Book Festival and New York Book Festival and earning the silver medal from Reader's' Favorite as “Best New Book 2021 – Marketing” A sought-after motivational speaker, his keynotes and popular “Elevate Workshop” have drawn rave reviews from the likes of Accenture, Transamerica, Titleist, SAP, KPMG, Zurich, Gallagher, Diamond Resorts, PGA of America, CoSIDA and others. His thought leadership led to a feature story in Soar to Success magazine and also grabbed the attention of PR News, Sports PR Summit, and Forbes, who have identified him as an influential speaker, featured industry panelist, council member and content contributor in the areas of media and public relations, public speaking and strategic communications.

強風のため着陸を断念して上昇に転じた、新型コロナウイルスのワクチンを積んだとみられる全日本空輸機、１７日午前、成田空港１７日午前１１時ごろ、新型コロナウイルスワクチンを積んでいるとみられる全日本空輸便が、強風のため成田空港への着陸を断念した。 A strong wind forced an aircraft of All Nippon Airways, believed to be carrying the novel coronavirus vaccine, to abort landing at Narita International Airport in Chiba Prefecture, east of Tokyo, on Monday.

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On this week's #EFTV we talk on major issues, such as...a nude photoshoot in Dubai could lead to jail and fines...what a surprise!!! A man dies during a Taco eating contest and his family feel the event organisers are to blame. Samuel Kasumu has quit his role for the Government as their Senior Adviser on ethnic minorities. But why now and what did he expect from the role!?! James Charles has been caught trying to get underage arse on YouTube, so you wonder, what will the organisation known for its banning, do!?! The 'Girl Scouts' are trying to turn around their image and go full 'anti-racist'!?! All Nippon Airways and Singapore Airlines have started to turn grounded planes into restaurants, but it's not cheap! There's all this and more!!! PLUS, the new 'Sherlock Holmes' inspired show, 'The Irregulars' has now hit Netflix. Baker Street's young scallywags are taking the reins and being utilised by Watson to solve the crimes of London. So we attempted to give it a whirl. AND, our Audible book of the week, is a return to Leigh Bardugo's 'Grisha Verse' with book two of her 'Shadow & Bone' series, 'Siege and Storm'. This week: - Gender reveal party kills two! - Nudity in Dubai, definitely not the best idea - Taco eating contest leads to death and son suing for negligence! - Governments race advisor quits!!! - Putin cements his power - What should YouTube do about James Charles!?! - Will the Girl Scouts succeed in becoming 'anti-racist'!?! - Would you dine on a grounded plane? - Chin check REVIEWS & RECOMMENDATIONS - TV: The Irregulars - Season One - thoughts AUDIBLE - Siege and Storm by Leigh Bardugo *(Music) 'EI' by Nelly - 2000 --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/eftv/message

Myanmar anti-coup protesters gather for mass strike in defiance of junta threat, and a prominent Greek theatre director has been arrested on rape charges *) Myanmar gripped by strike as anti-coup protests build Protesters have gathered in Myanmar’s biggest city despite the ruling junta’s veiled threat to use lethal force over the call for a general strike. Three weeks after seizing power, the junta has failed to stop daily protests that are seeking a reversal of the coup and release of leader Aung San Suu Kyi. The ominous signs of potential conflict also drew attention outside Myanmar, with the US reiterating that it stood with the people of Myanmar. *) Iran, IAEA thrash out 'temporary solution' ahead of deadline The UN nuclear watchdog chief has announced a "temporary solution" to allow Iranian facility inspections to continue after days of talks with officials. Under the temporary agreement, Tehran will for "three months record and keep the information of some activities and monitoring equipment", Iran's Atomic Energy Organization said. US President Joe Biden, European powers and Tehran recently step up efforts to salvage the 2015 nuclear deal from which Donald Trump had withdrawn. *) US aviation body orders extra inspections of some Boeing 777s The US Federal Aviation Administration has ordered United Airlines to conduct extra inspections of some Boeing 777 passenger jets. The announcements came a day after a United Airlines flight suffered catastrophic engine failure, scattering debris across a Colorado community. Japan’s regulators also ordered Japan Airways and All Nippon Airways to stop operating a combined 32 aircraft with the same engine. *) Violent attack as Niger's voters select a new president At least seven poll workers were killed during Niger's presidential vote when their vehicle struck a landmine. Three others were severely injured in the explosion which occurred in Gotheye village in the Tillaberi region in the country’s west. The attack happened while polling was almost over in the second round of the country’s presidential elections. And finally… *) Prominent Greek theatre director arrested on rape charges Greek police have detained a prominent theatre director on charges of rape, adding momentum to the "MeToo" movement shaking the country's arts establishment. Dimitris Lignadis is reportedly accused of rape by two men who were minors when the events occurred in 2010 and 2015. Lignadis has denied any wrongdoing and turned himself into police after a prosecutor issued an arrest warrant.

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What is a flight to nowhere? Thanks for asking!With the Covid-19 pandemic putting a halt to long-haul travel, sightseers have found a new way to get their flying fix. Airlines are organising “flights to nowhere”, which take off from an airport, fly around for several hours taking in scenic views, and then land back at their original point of departure. Great, I’ve been waiting months to take a flight. Where do I sign up? For the moment, the phenomenon has been more or less limited to Asia and Australia. Back on August 8th, Taiwanese airline EVA operated a special flight to nowhere with 309 passengers aboard. To honour the event, which took place on Father’s Day in Taiwan, they used one of their Hello Kitty decorated A330 aircraft. In Japan, All Nippon Airways treated customers to a Hawaiian experience on board its “giant sea turtle” A380 which usually flies to Honolulu. Passengers were served with pineapple juice and cocktails, while ground staff wore Hawaiian shirts. Meanwhile, Qantas made headlines a few weeks ago after apparently selling out a flight to nowhere in just 10 minutes. Tickets for the seven-hour flight from Sydney Domestic Airport went for $787 Australian dollars in economy class, $1787 in premium economy and $3787 in business class. Wow, it seems like flights to nowhere are the latest travel trend! But how about the environmental impact? In under 3 minutes, we answer your questions!To listen the last episodes, you can click here: What is consent?What is the US Supreme Court?What is gaslighting? See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

Que sont les vols pour nulle part ? Merci d'avoir posé la question ! Cela fait plusieurs semaines que l'on entend parler de vols pour nulle part. Des vols sans destinations. On les appelle aussi des "vols panoramiques". En pleine crise sanitaire, nombreux sont les avions restés au sol, après la suppression des liaisons aériennes, voire la fermeture des aéroports. Alors, l'idée est de prendre un vol pendant quelques heures, et de simplement revenir au point de départ. La pandémie ayant stoppé les grands voyages, ces offres sont destinées aux personnes à qui prendre l'avion manque.. beaucoup. Depuis mi-septembre 2020, la grande majorité des médias français ont publié des articles sur ces vols pour nulle part. Le New York Times a expliqué que "voler manque aux gens", et donc qu'ils se précipitent pour acheter des billets d'avion. Bref, ces avions qui vont nulle part, ça intrigue. Mais où est-ce que s'effectuent ces vols pour nulle part ?  A Taïwan, la compagnie EVA a organisé un vol le 8 août. Pour l'occasion, le A330 était décoré en l'honneur d'Hello Kitty et comptait 309 passagers. Pareil au Japon, où la compagnie All Nippon Airways a volé pendant une heure et demie avec 300 passagers. Plutôt que de se rendre à Hawaï, comme le fait normalement l'appareil, l'idée était d'organiser une "expérience hawaïenne" à bord de l'avion. Mais après l'emballement médiatique, des articles ont montré que le succès n'était pas forcément au rendez-vous. Donc ces vols pour nulle part ont-ils vraiment lieu ? Et l'impact écologique dans tout ça ? Ecoutez la suite dans cet épisode de "Maintenant vous savez". A écouter aussi : Qu'est-ce que la taxe kérosène ? Qu'est-ce que le tourisme noir ? Qu'est-ce que le volontourisme ? Vous pouvez réagir à cet épisode sur notre page Twitter. Voir Acast.com/privacy pour les informations sur la vie privée et l'opt-out. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Today is Wednesday, September 23, and we’re looking at Singapore Airlines vs. All Nippon Airways.

Airline e-commerce projects are reasonably straightforward: a deal is signed; a carrier and its software partner spend months scoping out the product; it's built, integrated and testing takes place; and then it goes live.This is a fairly simplified version, of course, but hundreds of such projects take place each year.But as we know, 2020 has not been a typical year for any part of the industry.OpenJaw Technologies had been working with Japan-based carrier ANA since early-2019 to get a retailing platform integrated into the airline's system.As our guest on InPhocus this week says, coronavirus hit "at the business end of things", meaning teams were scattered in various locations, more often than not in their homes, with deadlines to hit and a launch day approaching.Bryan Porter, OpenJaw's chief commercial officer, tells us about how a project can come together in the midst of the most trying of circumstances.This isn't a test of the product (although that had to take place, as part of the final process), but a test of how teams have to adapt to a new business and social environment.Flying solo on hosting duties this week is PhocusWire's Kevin May.

Scandinavian Airlines System (SAS) earlier today came out with a statement that they will shift their Copenhagen – Narita service to Haneda. The route will gives travellers access to downtown Tokyo directly with 30 domestic codeshare destinations with its Star Alliance partner All Nippon Airways (ANA). The metropolitan area of Tokyo has two international airports are looking to increase Japan’s tourist numbers by adding significantly more international flights ahead of the 2020 Summer Olympics. Japan’s biggest airport, Haneda, is more ideally located for business travellers and the airport is set to add 50 international routes per day as, starting in late March 2020, the government of Japan for the first time will allow aircraft to fly over central Tokyo during the day. The direct Copenhagen-Haneda route will be served by SAS’ brand new Airbus A350 aircraft. As the most environmental-friendly airplane on the market, the A350 will reduce emissions by 30 percent compared to earlier generations of similar long-haul aircraft. “Japan is already a very popular destination, and this will provide a positive boost for our travellers, both in relation to business travel and tourism. The new service offers an attractive timetable to Haneda and we hope it will be well received and appreciated by our travellers throughout Scandinavia and Japan, SAS looks forward to the opportunity to serve Haneda from summer season 2020 in time for the Olympic and Paralympic Games. With this initiative, SAS aims to support Olympic athletes in the national teams of Denmark, Norway and Sweden in their quest for Olympic success” Rickard Gustafson, President and CEO, SAS. There is a large Scandinavian common market with a strong interest in Japan, both for leisure and business travel. The route is particularly well timed as SAS is in a unique cross border partnership with the three national Scandinavian Olympic and Paralympic Organising Committees and will be their principal airline partner during the 2020 Olympic Games in Tokyo. Additional cities (Istanbul, Milan, Moscow, Shenzhen and Stockholm) are part of the 12 new routes ANA will serve out of Haneda Airport starting in 2020. ANA will also be increasing the frequency of the Haneda – Los Angeles and Haneda – Sydney route in 2020. The routes are part of ANA’s dual hub strategy to enhance its international network as Tokyo metropolitan airports continue to expand. The two international airports had different roles when Narita first opened in 1978, Haneda was focused on domestic service while both ANA and JAL had to move their entire long-haul network til Narita. But since the opening of a fourth runway in 2010, the government of Japan has been gradually approve more international service from Haneda, with Narita will continue to serve more long-haul routes than Haneda, for legacy carriers like ANA and JAL, Haneda will become ever more important for capturing business travellers who are less price sensitive. ANA will shift its U.S. destinations of San Jose, California, and Washington to Haneda with new destinations like San Francisco, Milan and Istanbul be added. This will shift ANA’s long haul operation to be more focused at Haneda. More capacity between Japan and Scandinavia will be added in spring 2020 when All Nippon Airways opens a new route between Haneda and Stockholm.

Tom Szirtes is the founder and director of Mbryonic, a London-based digital design studio. Mbryonic specialises in creating virtual reality (VR), augmented reality (AR) and mixed reality (MR) experiences that help organisations communicate, educate and entertain more effectively. Apart from the traditional applications in gaming and education, VR is now increasingly important for industrial design and engineering in general. For example, Mbryonic recently partnered with All Nippon Airways to provide customers an immersive virtual tour of All Nippon's new business class in the Boeing 777 cabin. Mbryonic has also partnered with Acumen to create ‘The Adient Ascent VR’; a modular aircraft seating system that allows airlines to configure their cabins through a touch screen interface and then experience what it’s actually like to be in the cabin through a VR headset. Apart from discussing these two projects, Tom and I talk about: the fundamentals of and differences between virtual reality, augmented reality and mixed reality some of the advantages of VR that will transform the aerospace business landscape and how engineers can benefit from using the technology This episode of the Aerospace Engineering Podcast is brought to you by my patrons on Patreon. Patreon is a way for me to receive regular donations from listeners whenever I release a new episode, and with the help of these generous donors I have been able to pay for much of the expenses, hosting and travels costs that accrue in the production of this podcast. If you would like to support the podcast as a patron, then head over to my Patreon page. There are multiple levels of support, but anything from $1 an episode is highly appreciated. Thank you for your support! Selected Links from the Episode Mbryonic on the web Webpage Twitter Vimeo Adient Ascent VR ANA Business Class VR Further applications of VR/AR in aerospace Digital Twinning in aerospace

Cooperation is a key request within organisations.  Within small teams it tends to work well but it gets more challenging when you are trying to get other sections or divisions to cooperate with you. This is where our people skills come into it.  We need to know what are the communication approaches which will have the highest propensity for success in getting cooperation from others? Often these types of soft skills are the things not taught in schools, colleges or in-house company training. Hard skills always get the glory but the real work of moving organisations forward comes down to getting the people to move and that is where these soft skills really start to apply.   Welcome back to this weekly edition every Tuesday of "THE Cutting Edge Japan Business Show" I am your host Dr. Greg Story, President of Dale Carnegie Training Japan and best selling author of Japan Sales Mastery. We are bringing the show to you from our High Performance Center in Akasaka in Minato-ku, the business center of Tokyo. Why the Cutting Edge?  In this show, we are looking at the critical areas for success in business in Japan.  We want to help advance everyone's thinking so that we be at the forefront, the Cutting Edge, of how to flourish here in this market. This week's show is rather special as it marks the first anniversary of the show.  Thank you for viewing the show and I hope the show is providing value. Before we get into this week's topic, here is what caught my attention lately. In the late nineties Japanese computer game developers dominated the industry.  Western games caught up and when Forbes listed the best selling games in 2017 only three Japanese games were listed.  What happened?  The trigger was when the Xbox introduced a Windows based development environment.  Japanese developers started to lose ground because they were not used to working in a Windows environment.  The Japanese developers were used to working with propriety formats like PlayStation 3, the PS2 and the Sega Saturn.  Japanese developers not being adept at working with PCs the shift to Western game maker domination started.  In other news, the Japanese Government is promoting their “flying car” project. Electric drones booked through smart phones pick people up from office rooftops, shortening travel time and reducing the need for parking and reducing smog.  All Nippon Airways and NEC corporation and more than a dozen companies and academic experts hope to have  a road map for the plan ready by year's end. Google, drone company Ehang and car maker Geely in China, Volkswagon of Germany have all invested in flying car technology.  Toyota group companies have invested in a Japanese startup called Cartivator that is working on a flying car. One idea is to fly a car up and light the torch at the 2020 Olympics.  Can't wait to see if they can pull that one off. Fumiaki Ebihara the Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry is the flying car chief for the government.   He was quoted as saying, “this is such a totally new sector Japan has a good chance for not falling behind”.  I wonder how many other Governments have a flying car chief working on this sector? This is episode number  52 and we are talking about  Upping The Team's Care FactorSoredewa ikimasho, so let's get going. “Not My Circus, Not My Monkeys”.  This Polish proverb made me smile.  A handy phrase for whenever the needle on the “ridiculous meter” is hitting red and overloading.  While it serves as a great smarty-pants one-liner, it actually invites some reflection on the difficulty of getting people and teams to work together. Another great zinger is the “not invented here” attitude of disinterest, when you are trying to introduce change into organisations.  Reflecting on working in small project teams, big divisions, across divisions, and ultimately across industry sectors, this “not my circus” disclaimer pops up all the time.  It is funny, but painful. Japan throws up a number of challenges around getting cooperation or innovation when it is not that person's “circus”, not their direct responsibility.  The social ramifications of failing or making a mistake in Japan are such that people have become geniuses at micro-defining their roles and responsibilities.  A hoary old tradition of “tough love” Japanese bosses lambasting subordinates for errors and shortcomings, has had a salutary effect on subsequent generations, driving them deep into their Comfort Zones.  Keeping a low profile (teishisei), never volunteering, favouring group responsibility over individual accountability, carefully drawing and defending boundaries around the scope of one's job, are some of the outcomes.  Not terribly helpful if we seek cooperation and innovation across our teams. In any organization, anywhere, we get issues between sales and marketing, sales and production, the back office and production, IT versus everyone, etc.  Japan just manages to take it to another level of sophistication, hence my smile when reading about circuses and monkeys.  So what can we do about it?  Here are some proven principles to improve cooperation and up the “care factor”. By the way, we know all this stuff, we just forget to do it! Find out more when we come back from the break Welcome back The first idea is “Arouse in the other person an eager want”. We become so preoccupied with what we want, we are blind to the perspective of the person whose cooperation we seek.  Our Western communications skills are often skewed to strength of will, to pummel the other party into submission to our predilections, rather than through persuasion.    A handy related principle is“talk in terms of the other person's interests”.  If we do that, then the understanding improves and the likelihood of getting their cooperation and ownership for a task goes up dramatically.  Aligning our mutual interests is a winner and the way to do that is to “Be a good listener.  Encourage others to talk about themselves”.  Whoah…check yourself – when you want cooperation are you babbling on about what you want and why it is important to you?  No wonder we get the “not my circus” response or the “not invented here” reaction. When we really listen to others, we can find more points in common and construct a better base on which to build a joint effort. The word “listening” glides easily across this page but real listening takes serious work.  Are we actually good at listening? Be honest - usually we are rubbish and all need to improve in this area! Two principles that work well in tandem are “Try honestly to see things from the other person's point of view”and “Let the other person feel that the idea is his or hers”.  The latter idea is not about manipulating people.  Rather, when we have a sense of their situation, values, aspirations, fears and concerns we are better able to find the most convincing argument to support a line of action.  We can frame the context of the decision in a way that they can more easily identify with. If we give people a big enough WHY, the WHAT and the HOW flow naturally.  The power of that context, that WHY, is often so strong they recognise it themselves and come to their own conclusion, which agrees with ours.  That is good communication and persuasion, not brute force or skullduggery. All of us are being driven to do more, faster, with less.  Cooperation, ownership, accountability, innovation can be won – use these principles and enjoy the payoff! Action Steps Use these principles: Arouse in the other person an eager want Talk in terms of the other person's interests Be a good listener. Encourage others to talk about themselves Try honestly to see things from the other person's point of view Let the other person feel that the idea is his or her  THE Cutting Edge Japan Business Show is here to help you succeed in Japan.  Subscribe on YouTube, share it with your family, friends and colleagues, become a regular. Thank you for watching this episode and remember to hit the subscribe button. Our website details are on screen now, dalecarnegie.com, it is awesome value, so check it out. In episode fifty three we are talking about Big Boozy Crowds And Public Speaking. Find out more about that next week. So Yoroshiku Onegai Itashimasu please join me for the next episode of the Cutting Edge Japan Business Show We are here to help you and we have only one direction in mind for you and your business and that is UP!!!

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This week Airways Senior Business Analyst Vinay Bhaskara and columnist Rohan Anand  discuss American Airlines’ new premium economy cabin on the 787-9 (1:20), Delta revealing the details of its premium economy product (3:16), Ryanair entering Frankfurt Airport (16:28), Lufthansa’s profitability on all 70 of its long haul routes this fall (32:54), Japan Airlines and All Nippon Airways facing revenue challenges (38:30), and our weekly short takes (47:35).

Whew! The busiest week of earnings season has us hustling. We kick off our around-the-world sprint with IAG, the airline group that is British Airways, Iberia, Vueling and more recently Aer Lingus. While IAG led Europe's Big Three in profits, Lufthansa nonetheless posted its own all-time record, and Air France/KLM was no slouch. Still benefiting from its restructuring, Japan Airlines had fantastic profits, while All Nippon Airways had merely a fine quarter. We also check in on China's Big Three, Icelandair, Aeromexico and Jet Airways. Plus, why is Spirit Airlines not all that concerned about its profit margin? That's a lot of airlines in a single podcast.

In this Episode of the Hangar Deck Podcast, the team discusses our Boeing 747-400 Cargo Aircraft with Pilot Brian Mills.      The Boeing 747-400 is a major development and the best-selling model of the Boeing 747 family of jet airliners. While retaining the four-engine wide-body layout of its predecessors, the 747-400 embodies numerous technological and structural changes to produce a more efficient airframe. Its most distinguishing features versus preceding 747 models are 6-foot (1.8 m) winglets mounted on 6-foot (1.8 m) wing tip extensions, which are found on all 747-400s except for Japanese domestic market versions.   The 747-400 is equipped with a two-crew glass cockpit, which dispenses with the need for a flight engineer, along with more fuel-efficient engines, an optional fuel tank in the horizontal stabilizer, and revised fuselage/wing fairings. The aircraft also features an all-new interior with upgraded in-flight entertainment architecture. As on the 747-300, passenger variants include a stretched upper deck as standard. The model has a maximum capacity of 660 passengers with the 747-400D variant, and can fly non-stop for up to 7,670 nautical miles (14,200 km) with maximum payload, depending on model.   Northwest Airlines first placed the 747-400 in commercial service in February 9, 1989. The 747-400 was produced in passenger (−400), freighter (−400F), combi (−400M), domestic (−400D), extended range passenger (−400ER) and extended range freighter (−400ERF) versions. The 747-400 is the second-most recent version of the Boeing 747 aircraft family, having been superseded by the more economical and advanced Boeing 747-8. The last −400 model was delivered in December 2009.   As many 747-400s are now more than 20 years old, airlines are beginning to replace them. Airlines using the 747-400 have accelerated its retirement (as at 2015) and are replacing the model with more fuel efficient aircraft. The 747-400's leasing, resale and salvage value has dropped steeply because it is relatively expensive to operate. In most cases, it is being replaced with wide-body twin-engine aircraft like B777 or A330. The change in emphasis from hub and spoke operations to point-to-point flights has also reduced the need for jumbo jets. For example, Delta Airlines has reduced the number of flights it operates from the United States to Narita International Airport that are intended to transfer passengers to other destinations in Asia. Instead, Delta will utilize twin-engine widebody aircraft operating from an expanded hub at Seattle-Tacoma International Airport. Total capacity will be cut, but consequentially load factors will increase. In April 2015, Delta announced it would accelerate the retirement of its 747-400 aircraft and replace them either with Airbus A330 aircraft reassigned from cancelled international runs, or with new Airbus A350 aircraft now on order. That will leave just six 747s flying for the airline in 2015. Delta could not keep the 747s full without deeply discounting ticket prices; the discounts and increased maintenance required of a four-engine aircraft led to a drag on profits. Moreover, economic weakness in air cargo markets has slowed demand for cargo conversions. Since the cost of replacing a 747-400 is high (an airline must purchase or lease another wide-body), some operators choose to fly the 747-400 to the conclusion of its accepted useful life and then scrap it. The current parts resale value for this aircraft has been reduced to its engines. Several airlines have retired their 747-400 from the trans-pacific market. Remaining operators in 2014 include Qantas, British Airways and United. United is retaining its 23 747-400s for now, but the airline's deployment of them also reflects a change in emphasis from Asian hubs to domestic hubs, meaning that it will have more direct flights from the United States to secondary Asian market cities. This may reduce the need for jumbo jets.     747-400     Boeing 747-400 of Singapore Airlines, the type's first international operator   The original variant of the redesigned 747, the 747-400 debuted an increased wingspan, winglets, revised engines, and a glass cockpit which removed the need for a flight engineer. The type also featured the stretched upper deck (SUD) introduced with the 747-300. The passenger model formed the bulk of 747-400s sold, and 442 were built.   In 1989, a Qantas 747-400 flew non-stop from London to Sydney, a distance of 9,720 nmi (11,190 mi, 18,001 km), in 20 hours and 9 minutes to set a commercial aircraft world distance record. As of 2014, this is the fastest heavyweight flight between London and Sydney. This was a delivery flight with no commercial passengers or freight on board. During testing, the first 747-400 built also set a world record for the heaviest airliner takeoff on June 27, 1988, on a flight to simulate heavy-weight stalls. The flight had a takeoff weight of 892,450 pounds (404,810 kg), and in order to satisfy Fédération Aéronautique Internationale regulations, the aircraft climbed to a height of 6,562 feet (2,000 m).   747-400F     Cargolux 747-400F with nose door open.   The 747-400F (Freighter) is an all freight version of the 747-400. While using the updated systems and wing design of the passenger versions, it features the original short upper deck found on the classic 747s in order to save weight. The model's first flight was on May 4, 1993, and it entered service with Cargolux on November 17, 1993. Major customers included Atlas Air, Cargolux, China Airlines, Korean Air, Nippon Cargo Airlines, Polar Air Cargo, and Singapore Airlines. The −400F can be easily distinguished from the passenger −400 by its shorter upper-deck hump and lack of windows along the main deck.   The 747-400F has a main deck nose door and a mechanized cargo handling system. The nose door swings up so that pallets or containers up to 40 ft (12 m) can be loaded straight in on motor-driven rollers. An optional main deck side cargo door (like the 747-400M (Combi)) allows loading of dimensionally taller cargo modules. A lower deck ("belly") side door allows loading of unit load devices (ULD) up to 1,63 m height. Boeing delivered 126 Boeing 747-400F aircraft with no unfilled orders as of November 2009.[2] The last −400F was delivered to Nippon Cargo Airlines on August 2, 2008.   747-400M     A KLM Boeing 747-400 Combi, on short final to JFK Airport in New York City   The 747-400M (a passenger/freight or "Combi" variant) first flew on June 30, 1989 and entered service with KLM on September 12, 1989. Based on the successful Combi versions of the Classic 747s, the −400M has a large cargo door fitted to the rear of the fuselage for freight loading to the aft main deck cargo hold. A locked partition separates the cargo area from the forward passenger cabin, and the −400M also features additional fire protection, a strengthened main deck floor, a roller-conveyor system, and passenger-to-cargo conversion equipment. The last 747-400M was delivered to KLM on April 10, 2002.   747-400D     Japan Airlines Boeing 747-400D at Tokyo International Airport   The 747-400D (Domestic) is a high density seating model developed for short-haul, high-volume domestic Japanese flights. This model is capable of seating a maximum of 568 passengers in a two-class configuration or 660 passengers in a single-class configuration.   The −400D lacks the wingtip extensions and winglets included on other variants. Winglets would provide minimal benefits on short-haul routes, while adding extra weight and cost. The −400D may be converted to the long range version if needed. The 747-400D can be distinguished from the otherwise similar-looking 747-300 by the extra windows on the upper deck. These allow for extra seating at the rear of the upper deck, where a galley would normally be situated on longer flights. In total, 19 of the type were built, with the last example delivered to All Nippon Airways on February 11, 1996. This variant was retired with ANA retiring their last 747 on March 31, 2014.   747-400ER   The 747-400ER (Extended Range) was launched on November 28, 2000 following an order by Qantas for six aircraft. The model was commonly referred to as the '910k' signifying its maximum weight achieved via structural modifications and modified landing gear. This was the only order for the passenger version, chosen by Qantas to allow for full loads between Melbourne and Los Angeles, particularly in the western direction. The −400ER can fly 500 miles (805 km) further, or carry 15,000 lb (6,800 kg) more freight. The first 747-400ER was used as a test flight airplane and painted in Boeing colours, registration N747ER. Qantas received the first delivery of a 747−400ER Registration VH-OEF on October 31, 2002; this was the second airplane built. The flight test airplane was refurbished and delivered in Qantas livery. The 747-400ER included the option of one or two additional 3,240 US gallon body fuel tanks in the forward cargo hold, but no customers ordered the tanks. Manufactured by Marshall Aerospace, these tanks utilized metal to metal honeycomb-bonded technology to achieve a high fuel volume-to-dry weight ratio. The tanks featured a double wall, integrated venting system, and achieve fuel control via a modified Fuel System Management Card (FSMC) which optimizes fuel transfer into the Center Wing Tank (CWT) in flight along with the fuel transfer from the Horizontal Stabiliser Tank (HST). The tank is removable using tooling that interfaces with the cargo loading system. Similar technology has been used by Marshall in the development of body fuel tanks for the Boeing 777-200LR and Boeing P-8A Poseidon. Other changes to the 747-400ER include relocation of oxygen system components and the potable water system tanks and pumps since the body fuel tanks prevent access to the standard locations.   747-400ERF     KLM Boeing 747-400ERF at Schiphol International Airport   The 747-400ERF (747-400ER Freighter) is the freight version of the −400ER, launched on April 30, 2001.[17] The 747-400ERF is similar to the 747-400F, except for increased gross weight capability which allows it to carry more cargo weight. Unlike the 747-400ER, no customers ordered the optional body fuel tanks (cargo compartment fuel tanks). The 747-400ERF has a maximum takeoff weight of 910,000 pounds (412,769 kg) and a maximum payload of 248,600 pounds (112,760 kg). It offers cargo airlines the choice of either adding 22,000 pounds (9,980 kg) more payload than other 747-400 freighter variants, or adding 525 nautical miles (972 km) to the maximum range.   The -400ERF has a range of 5,700 miles (9,200 km) with maximum payload, about 326 miles (525 km) farther than the standard 747-400 freighter, and has a strengthened fuselage, landing gear, and parts of its wing, along with new, larger tires. The first −400ERF was delivered to Air France (via ILFC) on October 17, 2002. Boeing has delivered 40 Boeing 747-400ERFs with no outstanding orders as of 2009. The last 747-400 was a −400ERF delivered on December 22, 2009 to Kalitta Air. The new 747-8 Freighter has more payload capacity, but less range than the 747-400ERF.   747-400 Boeing Converted Freighter   The 747-400BCF (Boeing Converted Freighter), formerly known as the 747-400SF (Special Freighter), is a conversion program for standard passenger 747-400s. The project was launched in 2004 and will be done by approved contractors such as TAECO, KAL Aerospace and SIA Engineering. The first Boeing 747-400BCF was redelivered to Cathay Pacific Cargo and entered service on December 19, 2005. This kind of converting procedure is located at Xiamen Gaoqi International Airport in China.   The 747-400BDSF (Bedek Special Freighter) is another converted version freighter by Israel Aerospace Industries (IAI). The first 747-400BDSF was redelivered to Air China Cargo.[citation needed] EVA Air's several Boeing 747-45EM planes have been converted as BDSF model after retiring from passenger service upon the delivery of Boeing 777-300ER planes. This kind of converting procedure is located at Ben Gurion International Airport in Tel Aviv, Israel.   Neither the 747-400BCF nor the 747-400BDSF have a nose cargo door; freight can only be loaded through the side cargo door.   747 Large Cargo Freighter   Main article: Boeing 747 Large Cargo Freighter     Boeing 747 Large Cargo Freighter at Chūbu Centrair International Airport, Japan   Boeing announced in October 2003 that, because of the amount of time involved with marine shipping, air transport would be the primary method of transporting parts for the Boeing 787 Dreamliner. Pre-owned passenger 747-400 aircraft have been converted into an outsize, "Large Cargo Freighter" (LCF) configuration to ferry sub-assemblies to Everett, Washington for final assembly. The LCF has a bulging fuselage similar to that of the Aero Spacelines Super Guppy or Airbus Beluga cargo aircraft.   The conversion, designed by Boeing engineers from Puget Sound, Moscow and Canoga Park, Cal., and Gamesa Aeronáutica in Spain, was carried out in Taiwan by a subsidiary of the Evergreen Group. Boeing purchased four second-hand aircraft and had them all converted; the fourth and final LCF took its first flight in January 2010. Delivery times are as low as a day using the 747 LCF, compared to up to 30 days for deliveries by ship. The LCF has the largest cargo hold of any aircraft and can hold three times the volume of a 747-400F freighter. The LCF is not a Boeing production model and has not been offered for sale to any customers. The LCFs are intended for Boeing's exclusive use. In this Episode, Pitchlock Pete's panel of Aviation Contributers included Fast Eddie Raging Rick, and our special Guest Mr. Brian Mills. We would like to thank our listeners for the continued support on our adventure.  The team has reached a milestone of over 7,000 downloads and continue to grow our shows and audience.  If you would like to be a guest on The Hangar Deck Podcast, contact us at Pitchlockpete@thehangardeck.com.  We continue to strive to bring our listeners a great and fun listening experience.