About

Dear Visitor,

Permit me to introduce myself. I am the Owner of JPB TRANS CONSULTING, LLC and creator of this Website and Blog. I am a lecturer, writer and consultant in air transportation. My professional career has been in the airline industry. I am currently an Adjunct Professor at the University of Maryland Global Campus (UMGC), a Visiting Lecturer at the University of Westminster (London, UK) and a Visiting Lecturer at Emirates Aviation University (Dubai). I was formerly an Adjunct Professor at Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University. I served in the US Navy and Naval Reserve and am also interested in the Law.

One of my many interests over the years has been photography and writing, and in particular, telling a story through photographs and images. Because my career has allowed me to travel extensively all over the world, I have been able to amass a large collection of photographs of things in which I am interested: airliners, trains, Navy and merchant ships, sports and scenes of the city and countryside that catch my eye. These photographs date back to the 1960s and number in the hundreds. Because I want to preserve them, I am in the process of scanning them. I am also making them into digital prints, many of which now or will appear on this website or in a blog.

 In addition to photography, I enjoy running, golf, hill walking, sailing, model railroading, spectator sports, classical music and writing.  Below is my biography.  

 Kindest regards,

Jamie Baldwin

BIOGRAPHY

James Patrick (Jamie) Baldwin is a university lecturer, author and consultant in air transportation. He teaches Business Law as an Adjunct Professor at the University of Maryland Global Campus and is a Visiting Lecturer at the University of Westminster, London, United Kingdom and Emirates Aviation University. He is also a Contributing Editor to Airways Magazine. Previously, he was an Adjunct Professor at the College of Business, Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University (Daytona Beach Campus).

As a consultant he specializes in start-up airline strategies, regulatory compliance, licensing, aircraft sourcing, strategic planning, contracts, marketing and preparing business plans.

Mr Baldwin is a volunteer at Ironman triathlon events and is an avid distance runner. He also enjoys golf and is an occasional golf correspondent for local newspapers. Previously Mr Baldwin served as Deputy General Manager for Legal and Regulatory Affairs of Star Airways, a small Turkish cargo airline of which he was a founder, and prior to that, the US Representative of Tajik Air, the international airline of the Republic of Tajikistan. In the latter capacity, he represented the airline’s interests before the US government, multilateral development banks and private US and international business interests.

Mr Baldwin served as an officer in the US Navy (1974-1978) and the active US Naval Reserve (1978-1994). Assignments included Naval Liaison Officer on tanker convoys during the Iran/Iraq War, Officer in Charge of military officers boarding, inspecting and briefing masters of merchant ships delivering military cargo during the first Gulf War and Commanding Officer of a US Naval Reserve unit. He is now retired with the rank of Commander.

Mr Baldwin is the author of The Evolution of the Airline Industry: Regulation, Events and Influencing Factors (Kindle Direct Publishing, 2019), Pan American World Airways – Images of a Great Airline Second Edition (Kindle Direct Publishing, 2020), and with Jeff Kriendler, former Vice President, Corporate Communications at Pan Am, Pan American World Airways – Aviation History through the Words of its People (BluewaterPress, 2011). He and Mr Kriendler also collaborated in Pan Am – Personal Tributes to a Global Aviation Pioneer (Pan Am Historical Foundation, 2017). His website is http://www.jpbtransconsulting.com.

Mr Baldwin obtained an A.B. (Bachelor’s) Degree in International Relations from the University of Southern California (Los Angeles) and a J.D. (Juris Doctor) Degree from the American University Washington College of Law (Washington, DC).

He is a member of the U.S. Naval Institute, the U. S. Golf Association, Cambridge Multi Sport (CMS – tri club) and Sigma Alpha Epsilon. He has traveled widely and includes among his interests, distance running, golf, hill walking, sailing, model railroading, spectator sports and classical music. He is married and resides in Maryland.