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.
Amazon's Striking Situation/IATA's Top Ten/DIAL Up Excellent/Unilode & Kicking The Cans With ULD Care
Down In The Dumps At 36,000 Feet/What Lies Ahead For Air Cargo 2019?
Turkish Cargo Doing What Comes Naturally
United Sky Cell Bells Temp Control / Celebrating Life & Times Of Dick Wiebe/ Sally Forth With 1930s Hero Speed Gibson
Issa Baluch Man For All Seasons
Qatar Cargo Tops Paris Air Show/ATC Is More Rewarding/Ospentos/Salute To Guenter Rohrmann
Is The Sky Falling In On Air Cargo?/Virgin Gets New IT/ Martinka Over Germany/United Resolute in 2019 / Qatar Music of Munich/Berlin Airlift Live
SAS Airbus Electric Hybrid MOU /2020 Sulpher Cap Will Slap Cargo/Show Time Is Climate Time
Elliott Paige & Bill Boesch Together Again For The First Time/ Mother & Daughter Trucking Duo
Why ATC Matters This Week In Munich/Don't Miss The Spargel/Laurent's United Cargo In Paris
The Beatles In Los Angeles From Pan Am To Pandemonium Part 2
FIATA HQ Meeting In Zurich Unbeatable!/BER Built A Boondoggle!/Thanks A LOT!
Once In A Lifetime Berlin Airlift Aircraft In Germany/Speed Gibson Old Time Radio
Getting It On American/Kicking The Cans In Montreal September
Tariff Tosses Curve Ball At Air Cargo 2019/People & CNS Partnership/Ghost of Slammin' Sam Snead
Ma He 's Making Eyes At The World/ Cargo Plight of Jet Non- Flight
Why Amazon Is The 800 Pound Gorilla/Carmen Is Charmin'/ABC Adds Dhaka
Qatar Cargo Has Pole Position In Race To The Top
Few Minutes With The Shah of Flexport /JFK Cargo Shows A Pulse
Explaining Blockchain To A Ten Year Old/Industry Awards Should Be More Rewarding
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