In the past seven months, Leader Mutual Freight (LMF) has chartered 11 planes from Dallas to Taipei on behalf of a client from the semiconductor sector. For the LMF Dallas team, each mission begins with conscious preparation for the challenges ahead. The experience aggregated from completing consecutive air charter flights for the first 3 fiscal quarters of 2022 have enhanced our efficiency, security, and delivery capabilities.

Those days were replete with around-the-clock communications. Not only did LMF’s Dallas exporting team maintain close contact with Taipei’s importing team during each charter mission, e-mails were exchanged, and words flew between messaging apps to inform clients, colleagues, manufacturers, friends, and family members.

Work began at 10AM and ended at midnight, with each morning spent between the ground-handling centers of China Airlines (CAL) and Eva Air (EVA) awaiting truck arrivals. Each delivery required unloading, inspections, labeling, and photographic documentation, but oftentimes the trucks would arrive in pairs, doubling the amount of work and time spent away from air conditioning and shade. This busy routine carried on for days in preparation for each chartered flight and would be punctured only by brief meal breaks.

The hot, passionate Dallas summer saw soaring temperatures of 100 to 109 degrees Fahrenheit, or 37 to 42 degrees Celsius, this year. Despite maintaining hydration levels, the LMF team stationed at the airport ramp and warehouse depot had their shirts soaked and then baked dry repeatedly. Reward came in the form of neatly stacked pallets, all lined up and ready to be loaded from temp warehousing onto their designated aircraft. These are the little victories that the LMF community celebrates.

t is with a heart full of gratitude that we unfurled a victorious red banner across the plane upon completing the fourth consecutive charter mission of the third fiscal quarter. The photoshoot commemorates the fraternity and partnership requir