Pan American clipper, Vol. 9, No. 6, June 1951

              PAN AMERICAN
ATLANTIC DIVISION
CLIPPER
Read on four continents and four islands in between
Volume 9
June, 1951
Number 6
Want to make any plans FOR THE FUTURE?
by
Harold R. Harris Vice President — Atlantic Division
It is no secret that the certificates for the majority of the routes operated by the Atlantic Division expire in 1952.
We therefore have no guarantee that we will continue to be in operation on these routes beyond that date.
But we are planning to continue operating these routes, and to continue to grow and expand service on these routes from here on out, for longer than you or I will be alive.
Blake Succeeds Doole As Director of ME&I
The appointment of Norman P. Blake as director of the Middle East and India Region, with headquarters in Beirut, is announced by Vice President Harold R. Harris. Mr. Blake succeeds George A. Doole, Jr., who is being recalled to active military service.
Mr. Blake, who rejoined Pan American last fall at the time of the merger, has held a number of key airline positions. Joining AOA in 1945 as executive assistant to the vice president — sales, he later served AOA in London as European sales manager. He transferred to Pan American as traffic and sales manager for the Central European Region and most recently held that same title for the Western European Region.
George Doole	Norman Blake
Mr. Blake was born in Malden, Mass., attended Bridgton Academy, in Maine, and was graduated from the University of Massachusetts. He worked for the Socony Vacuum Company in the sales department, then joined Pan American’s New York sales force. During the war Mr. Blake was a lieutenant colonel in the Air Transport Command, assigned to London and Paris as European traffic director.
Captain Doole joined Pan American in 1934, after winning his wings with the Army. He flew the Latin American routes and held administrative jobs in South and Central America before transferring to the Atlantic Division in 1942. He helped map Pan American’s routes to the Middle East and India and has been in charge of that Region since 1946. Captain Doole goes into service as a colonel attached to the Military Air Transport Service.
Lindberg Honored
John E. Lindberg, PAD engineer, has been awarded the second annual Engineering award of American Aviation Magazine. He was selected on the basis of his engine analyzer, now known as the Sperry engine analyzer, which permits continuous monitoring of ignition, combustion and mechanical performance of any cylinder, timing and synchronization of magnetos and synchronization of engines.
Grace Interests Seek Broad Air Domination
Pan American’s long-standing efforts to arrange through service to New York for important points served south of the Miami gateway have been complicated recently by the insistence of the Grace steamship interests on an interchange of equipment between Panagra and National Airlines.
PAA has told the Civil Aeronautics Board that the Grace steamship interests are attempting to dominate air service on the route between the West Coast of South America and the East Coast of the United States. The Grace moves show a renewed intention on Grace’s part to change its historic role from that of a simple investor in Panagra to that of a full-scale airline operator.
Pan American, and Eastern Air Lines have before the Board a proposal for equipment interchanges that would bring Pan American and Panagra planes into New York over Eastern’s routes.
Argument Pending
The CAB will shortly hear oral argument by both Pan American and representatives of W. R. Grace & Co., on the_proposed Panagra-National interchange and then will consider the Eastern-PAA proposal.
Pan American’s position is as follows:
1.	Panagra and Pan American planes should be brought up to New York over the Eastern Air Lines system, which is larger and would provide better and more service to the public travelling on Pan American and Panagra than any other north-south airline.
2.	The competitive pattern for South America set up by the President and the CAB in 1946 contemplates the cooperation of Eastern Air Lines, Pan American and Panagra on the one hand and National Airlines arid Braniff Airways on the other. A National-Panagra interchange would completely destroy this competitive pattern without approval
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Transforming this plan and hope into reality will depend a great deal upon you, individually.
The US Civil Aeronautics Board will review the entire Transatlantic Route question before, issuing new or permanent route certificates. They will review the details of our actual accomplishment in the years we have been operating these routes. This review will be searching and thorough, as it should be. It is not the policy of the United States Government to continue support for uneconomic or unjustified or inefficient airline managements.
Record Provides Proof
Your plans and the company’s plans for the future depend upon our having a provable record of efficient and economical management, and the enthusiastic support of the public whose convenience and transportation demands we are designed to serve.
As of today, our record is not good enough. You have accomplished an outstanding job in pioneering these routes and in developing an enviable safety record and in developing traffic to the present volume. But we have to accomplish much more to become an effective business.
IMPROVEMENT will be thé keynote of all of our activities in the future.
IMPROVEMENT will be our challenge in several different directions.
IMPROVEMENT in dependability of operation and in meeting our published schedules will always be our objective.
IMPROVEMENT in the economics of our business will be a continuing and serious challenge. Any inefficiencies in our business, any unnecessary expenses, any unwarranted costs are the termites eating at the job security of each of us . . . all of us.
IMPROVEMENT in the reaction of the public to our service is a must. This implies IMPROVEMENT in the reactions of the traveling public, as well as IMPROVEMENT in the reactions of the general public in each country.
Job For All
Each passenger or shipper who is enthusiastic about Pan American World Airways is giving us
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At Clipper press-time, Pan American World Airways had completed 35,865 transatlantic crossings.