Pan Americana, Vol. 1, No. 10, June 1944

              VOL. 1—No. 10	JUNE, 1944	NEW YORK, N. Y
12th Annual Traffic Conference
Held at Hotel Lexington
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Ways and means of improving service for air passengers, air cargo and air mail utilizing the 100,000 miles of international routes of Pan American Airways System were discussed at length at the 12th Annual Pan American Traffic and Sales Conference held in New York May 8-12.
Facilitation of travel and shipments by the military forces and civilians was the principal topic for the meetings of division traffic managers, district sales managers and traffic personnel of affiliated companies and the New York general traffic office convening in the Hotel Lexington.
Saving in passenger time valuable to the war effort is being accomplished by PAA improvements, in handling of reservation requests, by simplified ticketing, and by bringing to passengers’ attention such important Pan American “firsts” as the recently introduced Clipper Air Cheques, providing a readily convertible medium of exchange for international travelers.
Expediting of priority information and ratings to passengers through PAA’s unique priorities office in Washington was discussed.
Regular annual meetings of Pan American Passenger Service managers were agreed upon. This division of the Traffic Dept., the only such department in any U. S. airline to date, is charged with the
responsibility of attending to passenger convenience, comfort and safety both in flight, at the airports and at city offices. Methods of providing passengers with the most diversified menus possible during trips were described.
As larger aircraft, with greater capacity and improved flight characteristics are made available to the divisions and affiliated companies of PAA, even better service and accommodations will be available to the traveling public, it was announced.
The functions and duties of the Mail Traffic Manager, assigned recently to the Traffic Department, were explained. Responsibilities of the New York Mail Traffic staff will extend to rendering greatest possible assistance to Division Mail staffs to establish most efficient routing and control, to obtain greater utilization of air mail facilities, and to intensify training of personnel in proper handling and checking of vital mail poundage data.
Also to benefit when additional aircraft are made available to Pan American will be the international air express shippers, whose particular problems were discussed at the session devoted to express traffic. Simplified documentation for shipments in connection with PAA’s famous Airway-bills was agreed upon.
The advisability of having standardized world-wide air traffic forms for (Continued on page four)
Vice President Evan Young to Retire
Evan E. Young, vice president, who has been in administrative charge of Pan American Airways’ 48,000 miles system of air transport routes in Latin America, is retiring from active duty after 15 years with the Company, it was announced by President Juan T. Trippe. He reached the retirement age a year ago, but was asked to remain by Mr. Trippe. He is succeeded in this administrative capacity by Vice President Howard B. Dean.
EVAN E. YOUNG
During his long service with PAA, Mr. Young has seen the Latin American routes, which he administered, develop from a 3,000-mile network into a system of 48,000 miles of airways which links the capitals of all the 21 republics and 13 colonies of the Hemisphere. Under his administration PAA and its associated .companies succeeded in halting the Axis-controlled airlines in South America just prior to our entrance in the war.
Before becoming associated with Pan American, Mr. Young had a distinguished career in the State Department, and served as Minister to the Dominican Republic and later to the Republic of Bolivia. In recognition of their friendship for the Dominican Republic, President Trippe and Vice President Young this year received the decoration of the Heraldic Order of Christopher Columbus.
Mr. Dean, who succeeds Mr. Young, has been associated in both the manufacturing and transport phases of aviation for the past 15 years. He joined PAA in 1942. A partner in Struthers & Dean, for 20 years a member of the New York Stock Exchange, he served as Governor of the Exchange for two terms, and as chairman of the Committee on Member Firms.
Upon his graduation from Yale in 1918, Mr. Dean served as an aide to General R. N. Danford, Field Artillery, in the First World War.
Conferees of PAA's 12th Annual Traffic Conference, held May 8-12 at the Lexington Hotel, N. Y. C., listen attentively to a discussion of wartime service for air passengers and other vital subjects on their agenda.