So hello and welcome to each and every one of you in the room im mike im the Vice President of united air representing this hub many hour town on behalf of myself and coworkers ive stations over thousands over the world well truly, truly want to bring in this with a bank today. Folks im honored with special guests i want to acknowledge a couple of very, very important people first and foremost the mayor of our yee great city folks mayor ed lee clapping and, of course, our ambassador unfor the peoples republic of china. clapping. and also a special guest from the San Francisco inspirational airplane our chief operating officer mr. North america veer and folks with me another representative of unit is our flight a friend of mine mr. David a Vice President of sales around the world clapping and folks youll hear from them i also want to introduce jake another one of of our Vice President s there he is welcome jake clapping we want to welcome other special guests you our customers traveling
Relationship between china in the area it about that growth. So this is going to be a wonderful flight im very sad that i cant be on this flight. laughter 83 very sad you must, you know, how many hours im ive spent but ultimately it come down to this i have to take care of the local that an duo District Attorney the one that plays with the giants. I know tanya our director of our zoo will be on the flooikt flight either flight i know shields find the sanctuary a nice place ive been there with ore former mayor willie brown and back in the 90s to hold the baby that an daze is a wonder hopefully tanya will find her way but its a great flight its important flight and one that i think a lot of people are going to watch doss because this will exhibit not only mount strong relationship as the gateway to the panic ambassador more and more Business People from china one of the designations to the San Francisco bay area and companies from our Area Technology and Bio Technologies want to invest f
Representative of unit is our flight a friend of mine mr. David a Vice President of sales around the world clapping and folks youll hear from them i also want to introduce jake another one of of our Vice President s there he is welcome jake clapping we want to welcome other special guests you our customers traveling on the number 9. We want to thank you for your business and were delighted to have you join us on this integral trip because of you in San Francisco this makes this event very, very special youre our first customers going into china and because of great xherdz and employees and Business Partners we have in the bay area it allows and makes in historic flight possible thank you for this annual flight its a worldclass of and folks we the doors and gates here are going to take you too over 3 hundred and 70 designations so thank you for a joining us. Without further ado, i want to welcome mr. Dave hilton our Vice President of the sales clapping good afternoon. How does is everyb
Welcome everyone and thanks for being here today. I want to extend a special welcome to all of our distinguished speakers. So first, the honorable edwin mayor of San Francisco. San francisco clapping thank you. San francisco board of supervisors david chu and San Francisco port executive director monique mirror clapping and our president and ceo paul guests the tall guy in the back. Im sorry and sprifrp kim. There should say right there thank you so the building our standing in was built in 1938 as a transit shed and its been used for many things for many defy types of folks. Wire super proud to have our ribbon cutting. Some of you have had a tour and youll be able to see all the wonderful things. A little bit about some of the things we did if develop this space is it was very important that we use Green Building design standards. So in all of our construction of the project and so many of the things the lighting for example, the heating and cooling systems all done with lead complian
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