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ATLANTIC DIVISION
No. 11
NOVEMBER, 1955
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M*an American Orders Jet Clippers
At Clipper press-time, Pan American World Airways had completed 52,490 Transatlantic crossings
Nine Months’ Cargo Exceeds Total For ’54
Pan American flew 724,240 pounds of freight over the Atlantic during September, an increase of 65 per cent over the same period in 1954, it was announced last month.
It was also pointed out that Pan American carried more transatlantic air cargo during the first nine months of 1955, than during the entire year of 1954.
In nine months of this year, 4,700,000 pounds of cargo have been flown between the United States and Europe, while 4,600,-000 pounds were carried during all of last year.
With 12 all-cargo flights a week between New York and Europe, and with 92 weekly combined passenger-cargo flights also crossing the ocean, Pan American offers more cargo space than any other (Continued on Page .14)
In This Issue
Accra ....................14
Baghdad ..................14
Beirut ...................15
Berlin....................12
Bermuda .................. 6
Boston ................... 6
Bremen .................. 12
Brussels.................. 7
Calcutta .................14
Damascus .................15
Detroit................... 6
Flight Personnel .......8, 9
Frankfurt .............12,13
Gander ................... 6
Istanbul .................15
Johannesburg .............14
Leopoldville .............14
London.................10,11
Munich....................12
New Delhi...............  15
New York ................4, 5
Paris..................... 7
Shannon .................. 7
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Proposed Mail Rate Is Below
T ransport Cost
Mail rates proposed for Pan American’s California-Tokyo route would pay for only three-fourths of the amount it costs to transport the mail, the airline has claimed in an answer to provisional mail rate findings of the CAB.
The answer pointed out that although the government doesn’t permit Pan American to fly the shorter, Great Circle, route to Tokyo, the proposed mail pay is computed as though it did.
As a result, Pan American, being forced to fly 1,610 miles farther on its island-hopping route to the Orient, would lose $813,500 a year, it was claimed.
Competitor Favored Under the proposed rates, Pan American would be paid only 35.26 cents a ton mile for carrying the mail between San Francisco and Tokyo, although the cost of such transportation is 45.20 cents a ton mile.
In comparison, Northwest Airlines, whose Great Circle route is 1,610 miles shorter than Pan American’s mid-Pacific route, is offered 46.44 cents a ton mile.
“In other words,” it was said, Pan American is required to render mail service between the United States and Tokyo at 22 to 26 per cent below its costs, while its competitor receives 32 to 47 per (Continued on Page 7)
$269,000,000 Order For 45 Aircraft
Heralds Advent Of Jet Transport Age
A date has been set for the arrival of the jet transport age in the United States. It was proclaimed in newspaper headlines and stories throughout the United States, and in other part of the world last month, with Pan American’s announcement that contracts
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Twenty of the four-engined planes will be produced by the Boeing Airplane Company, of Seattle, Washington, with the first deliveries to start in December, 1958.
And 25 will be manufactured by the Douglas Aircraft Company, of Santa Monica, California, with deliveries to begin in December, 1959.
Power plants for both the Boeing 707 and the Douglas DC-8 will be furnished by the Pratt & Whitney Division of United Aircraft Corporation, East Hartford, Connecticut.
More Than 100 Pax
The Boeing 707s, all of which will be delivered between December, 1958, and November, 1959, will carry 104 passengers in standard seating configuration and 125 in tourist class service.
The DC-8s, which will be delivered between December, 1959, and January, 1961, will carry 108 passengers in standard seating, or 131 tourist-class passengers.
The Douglas jet Clippers will have a wing area seven per cent larger than the Boeings; will carry six more passengers in tourist class, will have slightly greater range and will be equipped with a larger type Pratt & Whitney jet turbine engine.
Cruise At 575
Both aircraft are designed to (Continued on Page 8)