1960
- The Society of Automotive Engineers forms the International Air Cargo Forum to represent all cargo carriers and freight forwarders.
1962
- The Port Authority of New York announces plans to double cargo capacity at Idlewild Airport to 590,000 square feet, citing immense demand for air cargo.
- Pan Am makes the first-ever order of cargo jets in the U.S.: two 707-321Cs.
1963
- The U.S. Postmaster General says the Post Office will gradually expand its use of air for the movement of regular letter mail.
- A white paper, filed by Flying Tigers, Riddle Airlines and Slick, alleges that the “big four” U.S.-based carriers – American, Eastern, TWA and United – had conspired to put all-cargo carriers out of business.
1964
- REA Express begins work on what would be a three-year nationwide computerization program to track small-shipments data transmission.
1965
- Airborne Freight Corp. vice president George Ryan calls for higher standards for forwarder certification to “eliminate… fly-by-night operators” that are harming the industry’s reputation.
1966
- In December Aeroports de Paris breaks ground on Paris North, later to be known as Charles de Gaulle Airport.
1967
- Samuel Mosher, board chariman of Flying Tigers since 1945, steps down over disagreements with some new policies at the airline.
1968
- The jumbo-jet era is ushered in with the first flight of the Boeing 747 widebody, the first passenger aircraft with belly cargo capacity to rival the DC-8 freighter.
- California’s Airborne merges with Seattle-based Pacific Air Freight, to form Airborne Freight Corp. – the predecessor to Airborne Express.
1969
- In March, a British-French aviation consortium makes the first test flight of the supersonic Concorde aircraft.
- Adrian Dalsey, Larry Hilblom and Robert Lynn begin an ocean courier service in San Francisco named after their three surname initials, “D.H.L.”
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