© IALCO 2006

Dear IALCO friends,

I'm afraid we've had some distressing news. Clive Reed informed me that he resigned from Emirates recently; and Karen Mak will leave Cathay Pacific in the next few weeks to pursue other career opportunities.

Together with our conference hosts Isabel Cordeiro and Isabel Maia of TAP Air Portugal, we've had to decide to cancel the IALCO Conference planned for May in Lisbon. There was too much to do and too little IALCO manpower left to help the hosting airline with all aspects of a successful conference, both in terms of attendees and of program content.

In early consultations with a few longtime participants and considering developments over the last few years, I feel we have reached a point where we need to reconsider the IALCO organization and its added value as well as the 'power base' under which to operate. A few of us are starting to collect ideas for the future and we look forward to hearing from you. Let us know how you feel about IALCO and its future as well as what kind of support you can give.

The IALCO website and the yahoo mail group provide our best means of communication at the moment – and we plan to exploit them both to the fullest! We'll be in touch again in the near future to let you know what we've heard and what that means for our plans.

Best regards from a slightly lonely, but basically optimistic Secretary General,

Danielle Ferrante
 

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