Clipper, Vol. 12, No. 8, August 1953

              Pan American World Airways
ATLANTIC DIVISION
UPPER
Read on four continents and four islands in between
Volume 12
August, 1953
No. 8
‘Common Man’ Is Big Hit In Industry
A small pamphlet, “The Common Man . . . Up In The Air,” has been spreading through the avaia-tion industry like wildfire. In the past four months it has sparked more widespread reaction and distribution within the industry than any other new idea in recent memory.
Whats’ the story behind its growth?
Well, it began as an idea of Jerome Lederer, director of the Flight Safety Foundation, a nonprofit organization well known to all operations managers and chief pilots in the industry.
Kurtz Is Author
He called upon Howard Kurtz, of the Atlantic Division’s executive office in LIC, to write a pamphlet discussing the public reaction aspects of airline safety.
The writing included an analysis of the universal motivations which are common to passengers of all races, creeds and nationalities . . .
Nations which cause them to iav<? confidence in an airline. It shows the important role each employee plays in making his airline successful, or not.
The first edition of the pamphlet went out to about 300 people in the industry, on the regular mailing list of the Flight Safety Foundation. That was in the latter part of March.
Copies Requested
The reaction was immediate. The (Continued on Page 12)
Robert Ri Evans Given New York Post With LAD
Robert M. Evans, former Regional (IP & A) operations manager, has been appointed as ground operations representative for the Latin American Division in New York. He will serve in a liaison capacity between LAD and the Atlantic Division.
Mr. Evans joined PA A at New York in July, 1937, as a traffic trainee. A year later he was assigned to Panama where he later became sectional operations superintendent. Subsequently he served in Brownsville, Central America, Venezuela and Colombia.
Following the merger of AOA and PAA, Mr. Evans was trans ferred to Lisbon. He returned to the States in May of this year Also appointed by LAD was Herman G. Arndt who has been named New York accounting representa tive. He has been with the company since 1951.
“The steady growth of traffic between New York and Latin America” was given as the reason for the creation of the new positions. Both are within the Latin American Division, but will be administered from New York.
Pan Am Club Board
Members of the new board of directors of the Pan Am Club are shown in their first session since the recent election. The new board includes, top row, left to right: Joe Zaslow and John White; middle row: George Harris, Helen Gallagher, Ben Paratore, Dick Siegel, Frank Kelleher and Roy Minelli; bottom row: Kay Migyanko, June Rotker, Signe Bergstrom, Ann Clapps, Louise Kopp and Tony Loicono, who was elected president of the club during the session.
Loicono Is Named President By Pan Am Club Birectors
The new board of directors of the Pan Am Club, in its first session since the recent election, named Anthony J. (Tony) Loicono as club president. He succeeds Bill Binnian who was president of the club during the past year.
Other new officers of the club,^-
also named during the session, are: John White, vice president; George Warde, treasurer; George Cronin, secretary, and George Updike, company representative.
Committees Named The following committees were also appointed by the president: PX — Ben Paratore, chairman; Helen Fitzsimmons, co-chairman, and Joe O’Neil, sales clerk.
Physical Activities — Roy Minelli, chairman, in charge of the activities of the intramural teams (bowling, softball, golf, rifle and pistol, horseshoes, handball) and industrial teams (bowling, golf, softball, tennis).
Social Activities—Seymour Berman, chairman, in charge of the club’s sponsorship of the Snow Ball Dance, Christmas Dance, Spring Festival and Children’s Christmas Party.
Welfare — Fred Breitschwerdt, chairman; Joe Leone, George Updike and Ann Clapps, co-chairmen. Salvage — A1 Cilli, chairman.
Problems Faced Among the many problems faced by the incoming board and newly-elected officers, there are the following, according to the president: Financial — Money in the treasury must be budgeted for this year and for the next fiscal year.
Publicity — Activities of the Pan Am Club must be given more publicity. At present, it’s felt, only a small percentage of coemps know (Continued on Page 2)
More Use Planes Than Ships On Atlantic Trips
Airplanes took the lead over ships in the international transportation of passengers to and from New York during the first six months of this year.
The number of passengers traveling by sea and by air were about equal during the first six months of last year, but figures for the same period this year indicated that 80,000 more persons traveled by airlines than by ship.
This information was obtained from a study of the monthly reports from the office of the collector of customs (U.S.A.)
An increase in the total number of passengers traveling through New York this year was indicated in the reports (873,516 in the first six months of 1952; 902,335 in 1953), but ship passenger arrivals and departures dropped by 20,439, or 4x/£ per cent.
In this same period, airline carryings rose by 59,263, an increase of more than 11 per cent.
The customs reports also showed a nine per cent rise in the number of airplanes taking off or landing on international flights at New York this year.
New Clipper Fleet To Augment Services to Europe and Asia
Pay-off Comes 2 Years After A Suggestion
Ever wonder what happens to the suggestions you submit to the company? Well, if it seems to take “forever” to be paid off, you can get a bit of comfort from the experience of Phil Parrott, flight service superintendent.
In June, 1951, Phil was a flight service supervisor. He had a suggestion. So he submitted it, in detail, to the Suggestion Award Committee. Now, two years later, it has been put into use. And Phil is $85 richer for his idea.
Phil’s suggestion came as the result of his observation that two printed forms could be combined into one. This would result, it was estimated, in an annual saving of $1,680 in printing costs. And it would provide smoother passenger handling, too.
As a result of his suggestion, the Atlantic Division now uses a combination passenger seat check and personal effects identification tag.
Previously, each aircraft configuration had required its own seat assignment forms which were issued by the station traffic personnel. And personal effects identi-(Continued on Page 12)
<$> Three new low-fare tourist flights a week to Europe have been added to Pan American schedules, effective August 1. And plans are being announced for the gradual extension of tourist services throughout the world.
The increased services are being made possible by the delivery to PAA of its new fleet of 27 Douglas Super-Six Clippers, it was announced by Vice President Willis G. Lipscomb. Total cost of the new planes will be $33,000,000.
When present deliveries, now averaging two a month, are completed in June, 1954, Pan American will have a fleet of 45 DC-6B-type Clippers. Delivery of an earlier fleet of 18 Super-Sixes was completed last October 19.
Of the three new flights to Europe, two will operate between New York and Paris and one between New York and Frankfurt, v.ia London. This will bring the total of transatlantic tourist flights to 17 a week.
The new Clippers will also make it possible to extend the low-fare tourist flights from Beirut, in the Middle East, to Calcutta, effective October 1.
A convertible cabin, especially designed —to TAA—opcoificattema,
makes it possible to use the new aircraft on any of the long-range international routes of the company, it was pointed out.
In a very short time, the cabin can be changed from an 82-passenger, tourist configuration, to a 56-seat standard interior, or to a deluxe 44-passenger, all-Sleeper-ette arrangement with a passenger lounge and bar'
Idlewild Maintenance Crews Get Praise For Fewer Belays
Steady improvement since the beginning of the year in maintenance delays on LAD flights out of New York has won high praise from Wilbur L. Morrison, executive vice president of LAD.
“This is an outstanding example of PAA teamwork,” Mr. Morrison said in commenting on the bang-up job turned in by Atlantic Division maintenance men who handle the LAD flights out of Idlewild.
“The spirit and cooperation^—------------------
shown here typifies
the kind of teamwork which has brought PAA to its very high position in the aviation industry,” he added.
“We are proud of the efforts made at Idlewild to reduce maintenance delays,” Mr. Morrison said. “We are particularly proud of the manner in which flight crews and maintenance personnel have worked together to bring about this improvement.”
The peak of performance was reached recently when, out of 261 LAD departures during the month at Idlewild, 97 per cent were on time for maintenance, with delays due to maintenance averaging only five minutes per departure.
Departures of Super-Six LAD flights from Idlewild were 100 per cent on timp for maintenance during that period, and LAD DC-4
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In This Issue
Accra 			11
Barcelona 			11
Beirut 			10
Berlin 				 8
Bermuda 			 6
Brussels		
Calcutta 			10
Cophenhagen 			 8
Düsseldorf 			 8
Flight Personnel			 6
Frankfurt 			 9
Iceland		
Johannesburg 			11
Lisbon 			11
London 			4, 5
New York 			 7
Paris 			 3
People Talking 			2
Prestwick 			 4
Rome 			11
Stuttgart			 8
Washington 			 3