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.
Can Cargo Talks Walk The Walk?/Rates Clobber India Flower Exports/Dreaming Lunar New Year
Lionel & Human Kindness / Desperately Seeking Networking/The Wings Of Man
Take A Tip From The Tulips
On King's Day USA; A Few Minutes With Bessie Coleman; Our Martin Changed Air Cargo
United Krems 2021 Message "We Are Stronger Together"/Love Affair At LaGuardia Airport
Built Airlines Now GPO Is Working On The Railroad
A Christmas Story
What To Expect As Vaccine Lands At A Runway Near You
Air Cargo Future Full of Presents
Ron Davies Wrote The Book On Aviation
Waiting To Exhale As Vaccine On Final/ The Flying Cool Warehouse
Thanks For The Memories...The Beatles In New York in 1964
Stanley Lim: The Perennial/Lollypop & The White Tiger
Easy To Remember Hard To Forget
Bubbling Up After Everything Changed/An Autumn Serenade For 2020
CNS Departures Mean Industry Will Suffer / Kicking Cans With Envirotainer /Freeze Dry Vaccines Next ?
No Retreat 2020 Time For Leadership /Cargo Pioneer Kari Tikkanen
Will CNS Be There When We Need It?A Dart From The Heart/Back To Life
Mike White Retiring From CNS / United Nations Forschung For Ocean Logistics In COVID/Sky Bar Is Back!
Will IATA Take Down Cargo Network Services (CNS)?
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