Clipper, Vol. XXI, No. 2, March 1964

              WHO'S FOR TENNIS SEE
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VOL. XXI, No. 2

CLIPPER
LATIN AMERICAN DIVISION
MIAMI, FLORIDA, MARCH 1964

NASSAU STATION PICTURES
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Express Route Links Coast, South America
Flying Time Cut Between California and Rio de Janeiro
A jet express route, stretching a third, of the way around the world in distance and linking San Francisco, Los Angeles, Panama, Rio de Janeiro and Montevideo, is being inaugurated by Pan American Airways, June 3.
The 7,970-mile route, featuring two mighty nonstop hops each exceeding 3,000 miles, cuts flying time between California and Rio to 12V2 hours.
One Plane Service
Without changing planes, passengers boarding the fan-jet Clippers in San Francisco will fly the 340 miles to Los Angeles in one hour; the 3,160 miles to Panama in six hours and then cut 3,325 miles diagonally across South America to Rio in six and one-half hours. From Rio, the Clippers fly 1,145 miles to Montevideo in two hours, 40 minutes.
Flying time for the full trip is 16 hours, 10 minutes.
Despite a four-hour time difference, travelers leaving California after dinner arrive in Rio in time for lunch the following day. Favored by the time differential on the return trip, Jet Clippers leaving Rio just before midnight arrive in California the next morning.
Two Flights Weekly
There will be two flights a week in each direction, leaving California on Wednesday and Friday. The Wednesday flight continues to the Uruguayan capital.
The new flights, subject to the approval of the governments concerned, make direct connections at Panama with Pan Am system jets operating between Miami, Lima and Buenos Aires via the Panama air crossroads.
These connections offer travelers from the U.S. west coast a new time-saving service to the capitals of Peru and Argentina. Travelers leaving Los Angeles after dinner arrive in Lima for breakfast or Buenos Aires for lunch. The flights also enable travelers to and from the Miami air gateway to take advantage of the Panama-Rio nonstop flights.
Continue GUA Service
Pan Am is continuing the schedule of four jet flights a week from California to Brazil via Panama and Guatemala. Two of the flights continue from Guatemala to Brazil and Panama and Caracas, and one to Rio via Panama and Brasilia.
Both first class and economy class accommodations are offered on the new jet express route. The round-trip economy class fare between San Francisco and Rio is $781.40; between Los Angeles and Rio $734 and between Los Angeles and Montevideo $806.
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AIRLINE AND UNION officials help launch Pan Am's new cafeteria in Hangar 8. From left, William F. Raven, division manager; William Grogan, international vice president, Transport Workers' Union; Carl
manager;
Fisher, president, Pan American local, fWU and Robert Batting, vice president of Pan American local, TWU. Island Service Featured

2:30 p.m. 6:00 p.m. 10:30 p.m.
ART CLUB EXHIBITS
The Pan American Art Club, membership of which is made up of employes and their families, is conducting an exhibition at the Panair Recreation Club. Some New York members also have work to show. The exhibition continues through March 29.
Editor Thinks We’re	;
So do Other PAA Passengers
“I went on Pan Am’s inaugural of its nonstop New York-Buenos Aires weekly service and returned via Rio, Caracas, Panama, Guatemala and Los Angeles, and it’s a pleasure to report that the Airline’s Latin American Division has upgraded its passenger service to deluxe.
“It’s second to none and I’ll have to report on this later.”
The above quotes come from one who should know, one who has strapped himself into an airplane seat as often as many pilots. He is Wayne W. Parrish, editor and publisher of American Aviation, the Official Airlines Guides and a half dozen other important air industry publications.
Mr. Parrish has an editorial habit of calling a spade a spade and publicly scolding airlines and execu-
tives who do a bad job. In the same column from which the above statement was taken, he gave a back-handed slap to the in-flight service of another airline.
In Miami, the staff of LAD Service Manager Arthur S. Best grinned at this appreciation for their intensive efforts during the past year. Then they came up with the best statistical report on passengers’ since the department was organized a year ago.
A fourth quarter analysis of complaints and compliments showed that unsolicited compliments from happy passengers had increased by 99 per cent over the 1962 figures. The same report showed a drop of 20 per cent in passenger complaints.
Best showing in the report was made by those working in Airport and City Terminal Services.
New Cafeteria in Hangar 8 Open for Pan Am Employes
The first of two new cafeterias for Pan American employes has been opened in Hangar 8 *
Meantime, the cafeteria in Hangar 6 has been closed for alterations.
The new cafeteria features the~ latest island concept of line service.
This means persons do not need to enter the line at the end, waiting for everyone ahead to make their choice of food. Persons go directly to the particular area for the items desired and from there to the cashier.
Coffee service is being brought to working areas during scheduled coffee breaks on new carts purchased for that purpose. This is available to shop and office areas alike.
The services, when completed, will provide the finest in in-plant food service for all employes.
Hours of operation for the Hangar 8 cafeteria are:
3:00 a.m. to 8:00 a.m.
10:30 a.m. to 1:30 p.m.
4:00 p.m.
8:00 p.m.
12:00 midnight
Clipper Speeds Eyes To Ecuador Patients
A small but precious shipment was flown to Ecuador aboard a Pan American System jet to save the sight of two patients aboard the international hospital ship, S.S. Hope, now in Guayaquil, Ecuador.
Dr. Edward Dunlap, aboard the Hope, informed Dr. Edward W. D. Norton of the University of Miami Eye Institute that the hospital ship had aboard a number of patients suffering from corneal diseases.
Through the Florida Lions Eye Bank, a pair of eyes were obtained from a patient who had just died. Miami motorcycle policemen rushed the package to the airport to catch the Pan Am jet.
D-Day Vets to Get Low Fare to Europe
For veterans returning with their families to the historic D-Day scenes of two decades ago, Pan American is offering a special low excursion fare for travel between the United States and France.
The $250 roundtrip excursion fare from New York City or Boston to Paris will be offered only to veterans of the European Theater and their families attending the June 6 memorial ceremonies of the anniversary of the Normandy landing of World War II.
Jet Clipper Sets Cargo Load Mark
A Pan American jet freighter set a world’s record for commercial cargo, carrying more than 46 tons to Hawaii and the markets of the Orient from San Francisco.
The Boeing 707-321C Cargo Clipper took off for Hawaii, Tokyo and Saigon with a load of 92,945 pounds and maintained on-schedule performance in flight and in transit at each station.
The previous commercial record of 87,000 pounds was set by Pan American earlier this year. Pan American inaugurated transpacific jet freighter service in June and is the only airline providing scheduled transpacific jet cargo airlift.
New Low Fare Is Offered To Antilles
Pan Am is introducing a $327 roundtrip 30-day excursion faie between New York and Panama, via either Puerto Rico or the Dominican Republic and the Netherlands Antilles islands of Aruba and Curacao.
The new excursion fare matches the all-year roundtrip economy ticket via the direct New York-Miami-Panama route.
New Fare To Aruba
On the new excursion, travelers may make the trip in one direction by Puerto Rico and the other via the Dominican Republic and also visit either Curacao or Aruba or both.
A new $220 roundtrip jet excursion fare, $30 less than the present excursion and $64 less than the regular roundtrip economy ticket, also is being introduced between New York and Curacao and Aruba.
The excursion provides for economy class accommodations and also extends the travel time limit from 17 to 30 days.
Jet Excursions
Another 30-day roundtrip jet excursion fare between Panama and Curacao-Aruba is $107, or $70 less than the present ticket.
A saving of $61 is offered in a new $80 roundtrip jet excursion fare between the Dominican Republic and Curacao-Aruba cuts $29 from the present roundtrip economy class ticket.
All are economy class excursions.
Income Sets New Record; Expenses Up
Operating Revenues Up 11 Per Cent Over
1962, Trippe Says
Earnings, revenues and operating expenses of Pan American in 1963 established new records for the second consecutive year, President Juan T. Trippe announced in a preliminary yearend report.
Net income for 1963 was $33,573,000 or $5.13 per share, a new high and up 124 per cent over the record $15,007,000 or $2.23 per share earned in 1962.
This return on investment is below the rate which the CAB has determined to be reasonable.
Expenses Up 5 Per Cent Operating revenues for 1963 were $560,917,000 up 11.3 per cent over the previous record $503,916,000 reported for 1962.
Operating expenses were $481,-
826,000	in 1963, an increase of 5 per cent over the $458,899,000 incurred the previous year.
“A major factor in Pan Am’s record 1963 earnings,” Trippe said, “was the increase in Pan Am’s share of the highly competitive transatlantic market from 22.8 per cent in 1962 to 24.9 per cent in 1963.
Fares Are Reduced
“In 1963 a record 2.5 million passengers flew the Atlantic compared to 300,000 in 1951, the year before the low-cost tourist class fares,” Trippe said. “Contributing to this eight fold increase in transatlantic air passengers have been Pan Am’s efforts over the years to reduce fares. In 1951 the lowest roundtrip fare was $711. Today the lowest roundtrip is only half as much.
“Due to further fare reduction,” Trippe stated, “we can expect an increase for 1964 of 20 per cent in transatlantic air travel. A total of 3 million passengers will fly the At-CONTINUED ON PAGE 7
Pan Am Continues Hot Traffiic Pace
Pan American passenger traffic climbed to a new February peak, topping the record traffic levels of a year ago by 16.8 per cent.
Cargo traffic also was at a record high for the month, up 33.3 per cent in the transpacific sector and up 12.4 per cent in the transatlantic sector. Pan Am flew 16,479,030 ton-miles of cargo compared to 14,877,000 in February of 1963.
Traffic in the Latin American Division was up 7.1 per cent.
In setting a new February record, Pan American flew 494,-
789,000	revenue passenger miles. For 36 months in a row. Pan Am has now established new monthly passenger traffic records.
Pan Am Pioneered Air Service
Nassau Celebrates 35 Years Of Tourist Boom to Islands
Only the Miami gateway has more Pan Am seniority than Nassau, where this year the Bahamas is celebrating its 35th anniversary in the tourist business and honoring Pan Am as the airline that triggered it all by starting scheduled air service
to the islands Inauguration of the Miami to Nassau service was a big thing for the Bahamas back in 1929. It focused on the sun and sea pleasure islands a public attention that increased steadily. In 1963 more than
500,000	vacationing visitors came to shop on Bay Street, enjoy the comfortable hotels and loll on the beaches.
First Flight In 1929
It was a big thing for Pan Am, too, when the first scheduled airplane settled on the waters of Nassau Harbour and anchored to await
small boats that would take passengers ashore. That was on January 2, 1929.
Eight-passenger Sikorsky-38 amphibian planes were the “big ships” of the day. The first year of sched-uled flights produced only 260 reve-PICTURES ON PAGES 4, 5, 6
nue passengers for the 185-miles trip across the Gulf Stream, the Grand Bahama Banks and the Tongue of the Ocean.
The flights departed Miami from Dinner Key, the unusual Pan Am CONTINUED ON PAGE 7