Just before New Year everyone in the air cargo industry at Schiphol was surprised by an email from Peter Kales: he announced he would be leaving Kales Airline Services in 2019. Cargo Magazine spoke with Peter about his decision and together looked back at his great, challenging and high profile years in the industry.
“The time was right to let ‘my baby’ Kales go”, Peter begins. “For years I had been sitting in planes at least twice every single week. At the time I never saw the traveling as a burden, it was a sort of rhythm I had become accustomed to. But if I look back now, retrospectively, I think it was intense. I have always worked efficiently so that I had time to do other enjoyable things. The amount of travelling lessened somewhat once an Asian carrier we represented opened an office in Europe.”
‘No principal no food on the table’
Peter began his career at Schiphol with the Luxemburg carrier Cargolux where Arnold van den Bosch, a good friend of his brother, worked. Subsequently he went to GSA CAD Aviation Services that was run by an Egyptian. Peter: “I was just 21 years old, a beanpole of a boy with spiky red hair. I worked there six years and got to know Dirk Hazenoot. We represented airlines no one had heard of at that time: Cathay, Biman Bangladesh, Gulf Air to name just a few. During this time I learned how important the relationship with your principals is, indeed, without a principal you have no food on the table.”
Read the full article in Cargo Magazine on page 18
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