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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