Memorial Day - A day to give Thanks

Memorial Day, originally called the Decoration Day, is a United States Federal Holiday observed in the memory of all those who died in the nation's service. It was formerly called the decorative day as the day is observed by decorating the graves of those soldiers who readily sacrificed their life for the country and countrymen.

To respect the men and women who gave lives for their country, The National Memorial Day Concert is conducted at the west lawn of the United States Capitol. The Memorial day is observed at Arlington church by ceremonial lacing of the national flag on the graves. It is also a custom for the president or vice-president of the state to give a speech honoring the dead by mentioning their contribution to the country. Local Memorial Day parades are also conducted at many cities and towns by members of community organizations like Rotary Clubs, Girl Scouts and Boy Scouts.

Take some time this Memorial Day to give thanks to the people who fought for all the things we have - and most importantly, our FREEDOM!

Opening Our Lone Star Office - Behind the Scenes

East Coast Air Charter has been busy moving freight, setting up a new office in Denton, TX, and creating Executive Video Profiles for our http://www.eastcoastaircharter.com/ website.

As the economic recovery continues, East Coast has enjoyed strong demand for our air charter management services. Activity related to the supply chains of automotive manufacturers has been particularly strong, as many of the automakers are seeing strong demand for their products after an extended period of weakness.

East Coast Air Charter is very pleased to have opened our Southwest Regional Operations office in Denton, TX. This operations office currently houses office space for David Gutierrez and Anna Heyen! It was a pleasure having the team all together for the opening week!

It's an exciting time here at East Coast Air Charter. Our manager of Business Development, Rehan Hyder, has been tasked to create a new look and feel for our East Coast Air Charter website homepage. Along with the new look and feel we are adding several new sections. Our goal is for our customer and vendors to have a website to access for the latest information on Air Charters. One of our new sections will be "Meet the Team." The Statesville Headquarters team went to Texas at the end of April for a Video Shoot. Below are some of the pictures of us on set. Coming up soon, our Texas Operations Staff will venture out to their video shoot! Break a leg guys, I know you will do great!

Air Cargo 2010

East Coast Air Charter had, like many of you, plans to attend last week's AirCargo 2010 Conference in Orlando. Good news: we were busy moving freight for our customers! Not so good news: our CEO Bill McBane was so focused on working with our customers, he didn't make it down to the conference. So if you were like us and missed attending, we have some more good news: here's a quick hit update from Brandon Fried, executive director of Airforwarders Association, who put on the conference.

From Brandon:

"If you missed last week's conference, you missed over 800 industry participants networking and learning about:

• How to do business with the government
• The secrets of Travelocity's success and how they can impact the air cargo industry
• Regulatory compliance
• The new TSA Indirect Air Carrier Security Program change information
• How to harness social media to make your air cargo business more successful

If you were able to attend. Let us know what you felt was most valuable from the conference and we look forward to seeing you at the next event!

A Charter full of Chicks

From time to time we get some unconventional calls to charter wedding cakes or heart valves or BABY CHICKS! These provide additional fun because they are so unique!


A few years ago, we received a phone call from a local hatchery needing to charter baby chicks! The chicks were packaged as 300 cartons, 24x19x7 inches, 3000 pounds total. Each box had 100 baby chicks in it. Once we secured a DC3 aircraft we jumped at the opportunity and even helped with loading. The chicks are like little balls of heat and sometimes die due to excessive heat. Luckily it was a cool evening and no fatalities occurred.


All air charters are unique and each of our customers needs is handled with the same enthusiasm as with the chicks charter. We all enjoy the reward of helping to fulfill our customer's needs, whether it is transporting baby chicks or rushing brake parts to a waiting assembly line!

Freight In Action

Thank you for visiting!

East Coast Air Charter is pleased to announce our 2010 Contest, "FREIGHT IN ACTION." We want your pictures of our freight going here...there...and everywhere! Please send us as many pictures as possible throughout the year. For each picture submitted your name will be entered into to our Quarterly drawing for a prize. At the end of the year we will vote on the best picture for the GRAND PRIZE!!!

Pictures should be submitted to arden@eastcoastaircharter.com. We plan to use the pictures for Marketing, Advertising and simply the pleasure of seeing our "Freight in Action."

Welcome!

We are Bill and Lisa McBane co-founders of East Coast Air Charter, Inc. Aviation has been a part of both of our lives since we were children. In 1991, Bill went to work for a small charter company with the intent of gaining experience as a commercial pilot and then working his way up to fly for the airlines. He started with the company as an entry-level dispatcher, and soon grew to enjoy the operations side of air charter. The satisfaction of helping a customer in need was more rewarding than the long nights away from home. With the encouragement of Bill's former employer, Lisa and Bill opened the doors to East Coast Air Charter in 1997. East Coast Air Charter, Inc. is a full service, on demand air charter management company specializing in the transportation of time critical freight. East Coast Air Charter serves a variety of customers throughout the United States, Canada, Mexico, Europe, and worldwide. We provide door to door service and operate around the clock!