Clipper, Vol. XVII, No. 10, December 1960

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PARC SCHEDULES BUSY HOLIDAY PROGRAM
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CLIPPER
LATIN AMERICAN DIVISION
THE VOICE OF PAN AM STORY, PICTURES
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VOL XVII, No. 10
MIAMI, FLORIDA, DECEMBER 1960
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Extend Mexico Route, Pan Am Asks CAB
Jet Service Is Opened in West Sector
Flights Connect Western Gateways, Central America
Jet service cutting flying time 40 per cent between western United States gateways and Mexico, Guatemala and Panama, was inaugurated on December 12 by Pan American.
At the same time daily jet flights in both directions were started between Houston, Mexico City and Guatemala.
Distinguished members of the press and travel industry were given a preview of the new service aboard the southbound inaugural flight. They were entertained by Executive Vice President Wilbur L. Morrison, in charge of the Latin American Division, in Guatemala, and later in Panama by Governor William A. Carter, of the Canal Zone, and U. S. Ambassador Joseph Farmland.
Extends Jet Network
The new 121-passenger DC-8C flights extend Pan Am’s jet network throughout Latin America. Jet Clippers already are operating in the Caribbean and South America.
Six weekly one-stop jet flights, via Guatemala City, connect Panama with Los Angeles and San Francisco. The Houston jet flights also make direct connections at Guatemala with the Panama-Cali-fornia jets.
At Guatemala, the jet flights also make direct connections with piston - engine Clippers serving other cities in Central America— San Salvador, Tegucigalpa, Managua and San Jose.
The DC-8C jets cut flying time between Los Angeles and Panama to 7 hours 15 minutes, compared to the old time of 11 hours. Flight times will be 5 hours between Los Angeles and Guatemala City, 2 hours 15 minutes between Guatemala and Panama.
Flying Time Cut
Flying time between Houston and Mexico City has been cut to 2 hours by the jets, compared to the former 3 hours 15 minutes. It will be another 2 hours by jet between Mexico City and Guatemala, compared to 2 hours 40 minutes.
Carrying 121 first class and tourist passengers, compared to 73 and 82 for the piston-engine Clippers, the jet service provides hundreds of additional seats a week for air passengers on the western sector of Pan Am’s Latin American Division.
Inauguration of the jets means an increase of about 47 per cent in the number of seats between Houston, Mexico City and Guatemala, and about a 25 per cent increase in seats between San Francisco, Los Angeles, Guatemala and Panama.
Chile Eliminates Air Cargo Visas
Consular visas will no longer be required on air cargo shipments to Chile, effective January 1st.
The new regulation which has been officially decreed by the president of Chile will apply to air cargo destined to all cities in Chile with the exception of the free-port of Arica, where existing regulations will remain in effect.
Vice-President’s Christmas Message
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In these days, the star that was lit over the hills of Judea almost 2,000 years ago burns again even more brightly in the hearts of men of good will throughout the world.
To all members of the LAD family everywhere, may I extend a wish that your Christmas be bright and joyous, the coming New Year a fruitful one.
In the year just passed, we have all known our shares of victories and defeats. We have reaped rich rewards here, known galling frustration there. But it is through this mixture of good and adversity that we progress and grow stronger spiritually and economically. As we know, the strongest metals are alloys.
But who can doubt we have much to be thankful for. Continued peace in the world. Further scientific progress that is building a better world for us and our children to live in.
Two Mechanics Split $500
MORRISON
The highest standard of living enjoyed anywhere in the world.
We in LAD, through our labors in the field of international communications, are privileged to have been able to make contributions in all these fields. In our work, we help dispel the darkness of ignorance. We help once unknown people meet and become friends. We offer the channel of communication through which comes understanding that replaces suspicion.
In the Jet Age, which we in Pan American have done so much to pioneer and develop, the world becomes smaller . . . and our opportunity becomes bigger.
The year ahead will not be without trouble nor obstacles. But, working together in the spirit that first inspired men 1960 years ago, I am sure we in LAD will move forward together to rise above trouble, overcome the obstacles and achieve an even sounder foundation for our Company and a continued progress toward peace and prosperity for all.
Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year!
First Top A ward Is Approved For Jet Engine Suggestion
The first maximum award of $500 for a suggestion improving the method of testing jet engines, was approved by the Employes Technical Committee for Howard M. Keith and Harold A. Jordan, mechanics.
The accepted improvement con-^ sists of a control box for trim
ming JT-3 and JT-4 engines on completion of overhaul and on all new aircraft before they are placed in service.
Trimming engines consists of accurately setting the idle and maximum RPM, adjusting properly the fuel-air ratio and the water to fuel-air ratio under various conditions. The original equipment purchased by Pan American
for this purpose, permitted the testing of but one engine at a time. Later, all four engines had to be restarted to perform generator, wing and de-icing, fuel heater and other checks which required all four engines operating at the same time.
Six Power Units
The new equipment includes six additional power units, three for each type engine. This and related equipment is housed permanently
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More Flights For San Juan
Fifty additional jet flights have been added to Pan American’s giant holiday airlift between New York and Puerto Rico.
Originally the airline boosted its jet Clipper flights between New York and San Juan from 40 to 56 a week to provide 28,750 seats during the four weeks.
The 50 additional jet flights will operate as extra sections to meet growing traffic requirements and will increase the total jet seat capacity between the two cities to 34,750 during the holiday period.
During the same period Pan Am also will operate daily jet Clippers between Miami and San Juan and six jet flights a week between San Juan and the Atlantic coast cities of Baltimore, Washington, Philadelphia and Boston.
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NIXON VISITS NASSAU—Vice President Richard Nixon flew to Nassau by Pan Am Clipper while visiting Miami following the presidential campaign and election. The vice president spent several days in the Bahamas resting and fishing. He was met at the airport by Howard McKinney, Bahamas comptroller of customs, left, George Morley, Pan American's director in Nassau, center, and Ed Beale, station manager.
Airline Says Jets to Fly New Link
Plan Would Give Needed Service to Middle Americas
Plans that could facilitate air travel of more than 50,-000 passengers a year between Mexico, Central America, Florida, the Caribbean and Europe were outlined today by Pan American World Airways.
Proposals to put 121-passenger Boeing 707 jet Clippers into immediate service on a route between Miami, Tampa, Merida, Mexico, and Mexico City were made by the pioneer U. S. international airline in exhibits filed with the Civil Aeronautics Board.
The 1,300-mile link, merging with other Pan Am routes in Latin America, will take care of a “forgotten 50,000” who now either do not have the kind of air service they want, or who do not have convenient one-carrier service between the areas involved.
Now Flies to Merida
Pan American now flies the Miami-Merida portion of the route, and is asking only to have its route extended about 600 miles farther, to Mexico City.
Pan American estimated it would carry nearly 49,000 USA-Mexico passengers during its first year of operating the route, which primarily joins the tourist-rich centers of South Florida with the equally attractive resort areas of Merida-Mexico City.
But additionally, airline officials pointed out, the route would close a missing link in Pan American’s network that would:
Close Missing Link
—Spur Caribbean-Mexico travel by setting up a convenient, one-carrier service between the areas. Today there is much of this travel moving via Miami, but with the necessity of using two or more connecting carriers.
—Develop considerable additional travel between Central America, Mexico and the USA, by tapping into existing Pan Am routes in those areas.
—Open up a new Mexico-USA-Continued on Page 3
Antigua Terminal Officially Opened
The new terminal building at Coolidge Field, Antigua, was officially dedicated and opened late in November.
Officials of the Federation of the British West Indies, the clergy, leaders in commerce and industry and airline officers, attended the function and later were guests at a reception and inspection of the building.
Among those present were Hon. E. E. Williams, minister of public works and communications; Clarence Johnson, contractor who built the facility; the Bishop of Antigua; Sir Alexander Moody Stuart, agent for Pan American in Antigua, and Lady Moody Stuart; and John E. Probst, the airline’s director and district traffic and sales manager, at Port of Spain, Trinidad.
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