Clipper, October 25, 1945

              Bermuda Included In Vacation Plan
Expansion of the Division Vacation policy of free transportation on Clippers to include Bermuda, effective October 24, has been announced by Ass’t. Div. Mgr. Edward W. Mc-Vitty. As of that date pass transportation between New York and Bermuda will be available to North Beach and New York Office personnel, as well as dependent members of their families on a space-available basis.
Announcement of free-Clipper transportation to Bermuda is in line with the Atlantic Division’s policy of carrying employes and dependent members of their families to points not more than 12 hours distant. However, due to present passport restrictions and other conditions, pass transportation to other stations is at this time not feasible.
Who Is Eligible
North Beach and New York Office personnel who have been employed over six months, and are eligible for vacation, may take their wife or husband and any children under 18 years of age.
How to Apply for Passage
Employes must first obtain their supervisor’s written approval on a signed Notification of Vacation form.
This form is then taken to the Transfer 11nit of the Industrial Relations Department in Personnel, North Wing, eligibility is checked, and the standard “Request for Employe’s Trip Pass” form is completed and signed by Records Supervisor Ed Broadbelt. The completed pass request is then presented by the employe at the Airport Traffic Ticket Counter.
In order to avoid confusion in the handling of employes’ reservation requests, it has been decided that no applications for seats will be taken by telephone, but rather that presentation at the Airport Traffic Ticket Counter of a completed Trip Pass Request form be a requisite to the acceptance of such applications. Applications will then be referred to Panres and listed as received, in chronological order on their books. Once an employe has been assigned a seat, a change in plans will forfeit his position on the list and he will have to take his chances on availability of space for subsequent flights within his approved vacation period.
While Panres will be the central reservations control point for AD employes, the Traffic Dept’s point of contact with the employe passenger will be through the Airport Ticket Counter prior to departure.
The Airport Ticket Counter will handle tickets for all employes once reservations have been confirmed and furnish them with information concerning documents required for entry into Bermuda. Although no passports are needed, proof of citizenship is required.
Responsibility for housing in Bermuda is
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Europe and Bermuda Fares Reduced
Bermuda, returning gradually to its prewar position as a major tourist area, will be provided this winter with the best service by Pan American Clippers that the island has ever had, according to Phil S. Delany, Traffic Manager.
Effective Oct. 23, the two weekly trips which have been maintained to Bermuda throughout the war by the Boeings will be raised to four weekly trips. At the same time the fare will be reduced from $80 one way and $144 round trip to $70 one way and $126 round trip.
As soon as sufficient land planes — on which delivery has started — become available and landing rights at Kindley Field, Bermuda, are arranged, the flying boats will be replaced by the 38-passenger DC-4 Clippers which will cut flying time and result in additional fare reductions, Delany stated.
A minimum of 160 seats a week will be available in each direction on the four flights.
Scheduled departure times for the 5 to 5Mi hour flight are:
FROM NEW YORK Tuesday	9 A.M.
Wednesday	10 A.M.
Friday	9	A.M.
Saturday	10 A.M.
FROM BERMUDA Sunday	11	A.M.
Monday	7:30 A.M.
Thursday	11 A.M.
Friday	7:30	A.M.
400 MPH Clipper Fleet On Order
Details of a program for the production of
1	he world’s fastest transport plane, which will cruise through the stratosphere at nearly seven miles a minute, were completed recently, it was announced by the company. The new Republic-built Clippers, called Rainbows, will fly San Francisco to New York or Honolulu in 6 hours and cut flying time to London to about 15 hours.
On our pioneer transpacific routes the Rainbow could cross from San Francisco to Calcutta, India, in 28 hours. On domestic routes for which we have applied, these super-fast Clippers could fly from San Francisco to Los Angeles in about an hour, to Seattle in about
2	hours and thirty minutes and coast-to-coast in little over six hours on non-stop express schedules.
While the guaranteed cruising speed of these new Clippers, big brothers of the famous Republic-built fighters, the P-47 Thunderbolts, is 400 miles an hour, their high speed will exceed 450 miles an hour. Delivery of the first six planes now on order by PAA is expected to start within 22 months.
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As the first step toward bringing air travel within reach of the “common man,” PAA is sharply reducing its transatlantic fares coincident with the introduction of DC-4 land-type Clipper.
The new fare from New York to London on twice weekly service is $275 one way and $495 round trip. The wartime fare has been $525 one way and $945 round trip. The new fare is also $100 less than the lowest pre-war rate of $375.
Since the lower fare is a direct reflection of the economies resulting from the substitution of faster land plane Clippers for flying boats, the fare from New York to Lisbon will not be cut so sharply, since the flying boats will continue to be used on this route for a short time until they can be replaced. This fare will instead be cut to the prewar level of $390 one way and $702 round trip from the $525 fare prevailing during the war.
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WOMEN’S GROUP START
DRIVE FOR FUNDS
The Pan American Women’s Group For Home Defense is inaugurating a drive for $700 to equip the boys library at the Ottilie Orphanage, Mrs. Charles Titus recently announced.
The women have dressed a doll, complete with wardrobe and bedding, and are placing it on raffle as part of their drive to collect funds. Chances will be sold in the cafeteria and also after the dramatic club’s presentation of “Here Today” at the Clipper Club.
A tea will be held at the Clipper Club around the middle of November, of which Mrs. Byrns English is chairman, and handmade aprons will be on sale to further swell the funds.