FlyingTalkers By Geoffrey Arend
Leisure:Aviation
Now hear this here is the true cradle of modern air cargo thinking from some airline people long gone and nearly forgotten.Once upon a time there were two giant all cargo airlines operating from the USA to points internationally.From Los Angeles to the Pacific & Asia was Flying Tigers and from New York Across the Atlantic to Europe,Africa,the Middle East and India was Seaboard World Airlines.This is about Seaboard World Airlines and specifically some excellent people that learned air cargo from its people.On October 1, 1980 Seaboard World Airlines was absorbed by The Flying Tiger Line, Inc., and on December 16, 1988 The Flying Tiger Line, Inc., was absorbed by the Federal Express Corporation.I was thinking about people in our business recently watching Fred Smith on TV talking air cargo.Once upon a time there was John Mahoney at Seaboard talking air cargo.
That was 50 years ago.
Interesting that the last big time air cargo type, Smith out on the hustings commanding the widest audience of any airline executive in world history (he certainly has also been on top the longest) can look back to a time when big ideas of how to air cargo came from a company he ended up buying.
Here we share some Seaboard thinking and also several direct quotes from Mahoney that in 2024 although the talk is aged as we move along 50 years later at jet speed, still makes perfectly good sense.
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Lionel Times Two Tracking Logistics & The Finer Things of Life/DHL Answers A Call For Help
The Trump Effect On US Air Cargo
Parisi Trieste Freight Forwarder Since 1807
Cargo Looks For Upside as Q2 Begins/When Shipping Goes To The Dogs/ULD Dance In Montreal
Cherries Blossom At United/Istanbul Game Changer/Virgin Brazil/Lady Truckers
FIATA Publishes Best Practices For Container Shipping/Ready-Set- Go! Turkish Cargo Belly Lift At New Istanbul Airport/Sessions Guide To CNS Partnership May 5-7/Captain of the Clouds Fokko Doyan
Peg Of My Heart/Speed Gibson Episode Four
Estonia's Elvy Kalep & India's Mathangi Krishnan / Suzy Wardle Virgin Cargo Tops JFK Expo Thursday
Update: Celebrating Berlin Airlift & Birth of Modern Air Cargo
Women In Air Cargo ! Cathy Roberson of Logistics Trends & Insights/Zeynep Kasikci DB Schenkers
Jan Krems United Airlines The True Cargo Heart/Speed Gibson Aviation Radio 1937
People At World Cargo Symposium 2019 In Singapore
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March Into Air Cargo/Tall Thomas Keeps European Cargo United/Cargo Utmost in Heaven
Two Girls Two Drive Cargo Alliance At United & Lufthansa/History Alive With REG Davies
Brexit At The Gate & Conversation With A Shipper
Airforwarders Association Air Cargo 2019 in Las Vegas/ Retro Radio Aviation Series Speed Gibson
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