Flying Tigers did not fail, go bankrupt nor was having any particular difficulties at the time of the FEDEX acquisition. It was a brilliant move by Fred Smith to expand FEDEX and obviously worked well to the betterment of all of us at Tigers and FEDEX. There were approx 1500 pilots on both lists at the merger(some call it the train wreck
). We are now operating in asia in a similar manner to the Tiger methods used at the time but are hauling a lot of high value"pretty" freight in addition to the "ugly" freight Tigers hauled. The routes/ landing slots rocketed FEDEX FAR ahead of UPS or any other company. Tigers vacancy in the ugly freight was filled by Atlas and others. Demise??? Not even close.
