Last week the governor of New York, Andrew Cuomo, touted a plan for a much needed upgrade to New York City area airports.  We were concerned, however, at press reports indicating that part of the plan would involve diverting cargo away from JFK and instead have it go in and out of Stewart Airport, 85 miles to the north in the Hudson Valley. Freight forwarders, some 600 of which have operations at JFK, know how impractical and unworkable this would be, and that the better approach would be to upgrade, modernize and increase cargo operations and capacity at JFK.  We are trying to find out more details of how the Governor would accomplish this diversion when half of the cargo in and out of JFK is via passenger airlines, and it is doubtful that companies operating air freighters are going to be easily persuaded to use Stewart.  We are skeptical that a viable plan even exists, at this point.    In the meantime, the AfA has been out there making the case against reducing cargo operations at JFK and diverting freight elsewhere, as evidenced in this Bloomberg story, which ran yesterday in the Chicago Tribune, BusinessWeek and elsewhere on Bloomberg's networks.   We are continuing to work both behind the scenes and with the media to make sure the powers that be know of our opposition to this and why it won't work.   We'll keep you posted on developments. SOURCE: AirForwarders Association