Total Airport Services, Inc. (TAS) is an airline service company based in Southern California. The company offers a wide-array of services to airline carriers and airports throughout the United States. It's based on a business model that highlights personalized, Quality Customer Service for airlines and airports.
Our service is personalized because senior management is involved and committed to our customers. With TAS , each of our customers are unique and special; not just another number in a long list of contracts. If there ever is a problem, it's handled quickly and to our customer's satisifaction. We do this because we believe that satisfied customers are our best marketing tool. If our customer succeeds, then so do we!
Our Quality Customer Service, a critical component of airline and airport service, means consistency and reliability to our customers as they serve the traveling public. Whether it's safely turning aircraft on time, insuring airports operate properly, or helping shippers safely move their cargo, TAS is a company that specializes in Quality Customer Service.
We perform these services in four primary areas. These are: handling cargo and mail; fueling services; passenger handling services; and airport support services such as airport maintenance, ramp scrubbing, GSE maintenance, and ramp tower control operations.
We are able to do this because management has many years of experience in the business. Most of the core members have over six years of expereience working together and developed a winning combination of expertise and customer service that are the cornerstone of TAS business model.
So if you do business on or near an airport, then TAS can provide the winning combination of services for you.
The Management Team is highly motivated and highly experienced in the airline service business. Most team members have worked together for many years.
Mr. Evans is co-owner of Total Airport Services, Inc. and is responsible for all airline service operations for the company. Mr. Evans was formerly President & Chief Operating Officer for Airport Group International, Inc. (AGI). In this capacity, he was responsible for all of AGI's operations in its many business lines. This included responsibility for all airline and airport service operations in the United States and Guam.
He also served as Managing Director of Airport Operations. In the latter position, Mr. Evans oversaw airport management activities for AGI at 16 airports on 4 continents including North and South America, Europe, and Australia. He also provided oversight of all human resource programs for the company worldwide. He joined his former company in June 1998 after serving 26 years with the United States Air Force. As a Command Pilot with over 3,500 hours of jet time, he managed Air Force bases in Panama and Georgia.
Mr. Eichenbaum is co-owner and an officer of Total Airport Services, Inc. Mr. Eichenbaum has successfully started, built and then sold two prior companies. First, he founded and managed a video production company, The Video Network. Then in 1986 he founded Coast to Coast Aviation Services, Inc. (CCAS) based in San Francisco, CA. CCAS quickly grew from a ground support refueling company with one customer to a multi-service, multi-million dollar company with 6 different lines of business and 57 customers.
The company also grew financially having gone from a new-start with $100,000 in gross sales to a major company at San Francisco International Airport with 127 contracts and sales of over $4,000,000 with a net profit of $1,000,000. In December of 1999, Mr. Eichenbaum sold CCAS to AGI, where he went from a Location Manager to Regional Director to Senior Director for Business Development, as well as an officer for AGI. With TAS, his responsibilities include sales, marketing, GSE purchasing and financing, location startups, and writing and negotiating all IATA contracts.
TAS is pleased to announce that Mr. Scott Offerdahl has joined the TAS Board of Directors. Scott has a Bachelor's degree and a Master's degree in Industrial Engineering from Stanford University and he has started a variety of companies. These include a technology consulting company (CompAdept), software companies (Innerstream Software, Zesty Games), and a handful of real estate partnerships ranging from apartment buildings to large single family home developments. He is also currently a principal in two companies (Velocity for Life, and Velocity for Business) where he speaks, coaches, and facilitates to make individuals and executive teams more effective. Scott is a former global board member of the Entrepreneurs' Organization, a group of over 6,000 entrepreneurs whose businesses each earn more than $1 million annually.
Gerald Kolasch, born in Linz, Austria, joined Total Airport Services, Inc. (TAS) in June of 2005, where he currently is Vice President, Cargo based in Huntsville, Alabama. Prior to joining TAS, Mr. Kolasch was with Panalpina, a worldwide transportation and logistics company based out of Basel, Switzerland. He began working Panalpina after completing his basic military training with the Austrian Army. He quickly advanced within the Panalpina organization and was transferred to the United States in 1992. His first assignment was in Nashville, Tennessee and in 1994 was transferred to Huntsville, AL, where he became responsible for all operational matters of their North American air cargo hub.
Besides managing Huntsville, Mr. Kolasch held key positions in many other projects, such as the successful startup of Panalpina's air cargo operations in Louisville, Kentucky; Hartford, Connecticut; and Ypsilanti, Michigan, as well as the design and implementation of a domestic ground network. He was also the Project Leader on the construction of Panalpina's all new Air Cargo Facility in Huntsville, completed in 2000.
Mr. Kolasch's final position before joining TAS was Head of Capacity Management for all cargo traffic from North America to Europe and the Asia Pacific region. Having had responsibility for a cargo team of 55 people, he knows how to manage people effectively.
Mr. Hoge is a 22-year veteran of the airline services industry having held various management positions with such industry leaders as Gateway Freight Services, Cargo Service Center, Swissport Cargo Services and Airport Group International.
Hoge has managed operations in a number of airports throughout the United States including San Francisco (SFO), Los Angeles (LAX), Boston (BOS), Columbus (LCK) and Hartford-Springfield (BDL).
Mr. Hoge's extensive background includes the areas of sales and marketing as well as operations that include management at both a local and regional level including development and overseeing of start up locations.
George Williams is the Director of Fueling for Total Airport Services. He brings over 25 years of Into-Plane fueling, location management, and Tank Farm Management experience to TAS. His career started in Salt Lake City Utah with Lockheed Air Terminal in 1982, where he was responsible for the management of fueling services to over 10 airlines and 250 flights per day. As the location grew, Mr. Williams became an integral part of what later became Airport Group International (AGI). With AGI, he played a key role in the location winning the coveted Delta Airlines Golden Propeller award 3 years in a row.
In 2003 Mr. Williams became the location General Manager for AGI at Ontario California. While there, he achieved many successes including the addition of numerous into-plane fueling contracts, as well as ground handling, and cargo operations. He also managed the fuel facility for a consortium of 13 airlines. At Ontario, the operation grew from a small location to a location of 260 flights per day with 22 airline carriers and over 8 million Into-Plane gallons a month dispersed.
