Our headline is how one of our winners of this year’s Ground Support Leaders of the Year awards described the attendees of last week’s Cygnus Aviation Expo.
I went up to shake hands with Bill Jacob after he won our Lifetime Achievement Award. “Back in the old days,” Bill told us during our packed Networking Party last Thursday, “the readers of your magazine used to consider this show to be ‘a gathering of the tribe.’ ”
Bill no doubt has plenty of memories of getting together with the tribe. Our magazine has only been around for half of Bill’s career at Eastern Airlines and the United Parcel Service. He’s currently vice president of the UPS ground support division and oversees 32,000 pieces of GSE. He added his father used to work with our regular contributor Tony Vasko at LaGuardia.
I like that phrase – a gathering of the tribe. It’s a great way to think about what we presented last week, what we plan for each issue of Ground Support Worldwide – and, most importantly, what we have planned for next year.
We’ll keep this blog short and sweet. Just let Bill’s description sink in for now. We’ll write more about what we saw at last week’s show in our next issue. In the meantime, head over to this site and read more about what we’re planning for 2013 – AviationPros LIVE, March 12-15, Las Vegas Convention Center.
