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Preparations For Jet Age, Growth In Latin Ameriea
Headline Sales Conference
Streamlining sales and other airline operations to keep pace with Latin America’s phenomenal economic growth and the coming of the jet age was the target of LAD-PAA’s traffic and sales conference, just concluded. Wilbur L. Morrison, executive vice president, reported that economic conditions in all republics “south of the border” are steadily improving and that the outlook for 1955 is bright.
“There are great new opportu-* nities for U. S. commercial co-1 operation with our sister countries to the south,” he said.
Morrison cited Pan American’s own example in Latin America and said the division’s passenger and cargo operations in 1954 were the most successful in the airline’s 27-year history. “The outlook for next year,” he added, “is equally bright.”
The four-day conference in Miami was attended by more than 65 PAA representatives/ from Latin America and U. S. gateway cities. A major innovation was the holding of classrooms in salesmanship with films, blackboard instruction and give-and-take discussions by all conferees.
The conference discussed a 1955 sales program, including increased tourist travel to politically reoriented Guatemala, operation of PAA’s “Canalift” for U. S. em; ployes of the Panama Canal on home leave, promotion of new, through flights between California and Brazil, other improved services, the trend toward greater group travel and new air cargo drives.
Morrison in his keynote address also said “international airline competition is increasing at a staggering rate. Today there are more competing airlines in the Caribbean than there are in the United States.”
Morrison said air cargo today represents one of the most fruitful fields, adding that PAA’s cargo tonnage in Latin America in 1954 is expected to exceed last year’s record-breaking total of 43,362,000 pounds.
He said Pan American has redesigned the interior of its Super-6 Clippers to add a full ton to their freight capacity.
“I fully expect that within the next 10 years air cargo will equal passenger revenue in our Latin American division,” Morrison said.
Edwin Drescher, division manager, also stressed the problem of increasing competition. Despite this, he said, Pan American’s traffic in the first nine months of this year exceeded
forecasts and currently are running at a much better pace than in previous years.
Pointing to PAA’s continued growth in Latin America, Drescher said the opening of new sales offices in Rio de Janeiro and Havana during the year had produced excellent results, and that a third new sales office, to be formally opened in Sao Paulo, Brazil, early in January, had an even greater potential.
On the technological side, Drescher said atomic powered (Please turn to Page 8)
Unique Cargo Drive Staged
A unique cargo sales drive, believed to be the first of its kind ever held, was staged in San Jose, Costa Rica, the last week in November by three sales teams composed equally of representatives of PAA and it’s affiliate, LACSA, to stimulate trade in the Colon Free Zone.
PAA sales team folks were Guillermo Bejarano, cargo supervisor; Carlos E. Rodriguez, cashier; Mario Paris, sales representative; LACSA participants were Ralph Wisser, sales solicitor; Mariano R. Chaverri, cargo supervisor; Manuel Alvarado, traffic supervisor.
According to Charles E. Maher, Colon.DT/SM, it is the first such drive staged without division participation where all plans and complete administration were carried out by local personnel.
During the week the drive was held, 148 calls were made by the three teams with the team of Wisser and Paris winning the prize with a total of 62 calls.
The drive ended Friday evening with a conference with officials of the local Chamber of Commerce. This was followed by a cocktail party attended by the airline representatives. the Chamber group and officials of the Colon Free Zone.
(Other Float Pictures on Page 8)
PAPA LOVES HULA, TOO—These attractive PAA employes represented the company aboard one of the New Year’s Eve Orange Bowl Parade floats, which featured th different ways of life at PAA points. Norma LeDuc, Miami file clerk, emulates a Hawaiian hula dancer, while Renee Pereira, a teletype operator, wears the costume of a Latin American rumba dancer.
THIS STRANGE BIRD was photographed at National Airlines while it was growing a new crop of feathers. Workmen quit for the day after painting in “National” and left the PAA on the tail. The aircraft is one of two DC-6B’s which PAA-ATL is loaning to National during the winter season and will be returned to PAA in May with two NAL planes for PAA to use in peak summer Trans-Atlantic service.
Pam Amerf cam [Vorid A/rhams LATIN AMERICAN DIVISION
VOL. 12, NO. 1
JANUARY 1955
550107
Peruvian Loses $2,200 On Plane; PAA Returns It
If you want a testimonial as to the honesty of PAA personnal at Tocumen, a passenger by the name of Luis Nunez will be glad to oblige.
Nunez, a member of the Peruvian marksmen delegation to the championship tournament in Caracas, lost a briefcase containing $2,200 and important documents at Tocumen in transit.
But before he could say, “Good gravy! I’ve lost my briefcase!” assistant station manager Silvio “Papito” Hernandez had found it.
Hernandez immediately had the briefcase forwarded on another flight to Maiquetia, where Nunez picked it up.
Cacaras newspaper “El Universal” carried the story of Nunez’ expei’ience and praised the honesty of PAA’s employes at Tocumen.
Change Adds Cargo Space
A re-designed forward compartment has added nearly a ton to the cargo capacity of PAA’s Super-6 Clippers.
A removable partition is being installed in the compartment that gives easy access to the entire area through the 44-inch wide forward fuselage door. Formerly, part of the hold had to be loaded through a 20-inch cockpit door, limiting size of packages.
The partition, plus installation of removable folding seats, also enables the space to be used for eight to 14 passengers if needed.
With the new flexible arrangement, cargo can be quickly loaded aboard at station stops when the forward passenger space is not utilized.
The modification on the 17 Super-6 Clippers that fly Latin American routes now is underway at Pan American’s Miami Overhaul Base.
Three Countries Combine To Help Dog-Bite Victim
A woman bitten by a dog in Colombia started a chain reaction which involved three countries and ended in anti-rabies shots being flown by PAA to Barranquilla.
It all started when the wife of a bank manager was bitten by a dog in mid-morning.
Since the dog was suspected of having rabies, the bank contacted its New York office, which in turn got in touch with PAA’s New York office.
LAD in Miami was then in-_formed and a quick message was dispatched to Panama, where a series of anti-rabies shots were available.
The PAA flight from Tocumen to Barranquilla was held up half an hour awaiting the vaccine and at 12:30 p.m., the plane took off. At 2:00, the first shot was administered to the patient, little more than four hours after she had been bitten.
PAA Travel Records Broken In ’54; See ’55 Even Brighter
Record-breaking air travel between the United States and Latin America in 1954 is reported by PAA. Prospects for 1955 are even brighter.
Clipper passengers traveling through PAA’s six gateways —New York, Miami, New Orleans, Brownsville, Houston and Los Angeles—numbered 675,032, up eight per cent over 1953.
Yr Total travel
Prep
ares
LAD Improvements For Stations
PAA is spending $200,000 on improving its terminals and offices in Latin America to provide better facilities for increasing traffic in that area.
The program includes modernization of district sales and cargo offices, terminal facilities, and a new $20,000 Clipper passenger club at Havana’s Jose Marti airport.
Conveyor belts have been installed at most stations, along with a minimum of two weighing scales at ticket counters, to expedite luggage handling. New light fixtures and air conditioning have been added to sales offices.
Stations which have been remodeled are Montego Bay and Kingston, Jamaica; Port-au-Prince, Haiti, and Ciudad Trujillo, Dominican Republic.
Nearly $25,000 was spent at Tocumen airport, Panama, and plans are underway for improvements at Guatemala City and San Salvador. In Caracas the cargo sales office is being moved closer to the customs office and the district sales office will be redecorated.
Installation and improvement of fueling systems is being carried out at various stations and runway and field repairs are being made, particularly at PAA’s Bowen field, Port-au-Prince, which was damaged during last fall’s hurricane Hazel.
* A *
$20,000 Clipper Club Re-Opened In Havana
PAA’s Clipper Club in Havana, recently remodeled at a cost of nearly $20,000, is re-opening on the second floor of the PAA terminal.
Spacious glass windows overlook Jose Marti Airport. The 1,200-square foot lounge is decorated in shades of off-white, green and pink and furnished with modern black and white wrought-iron chairs and tables.
The ceiling is of fibered plastic with indirect lighting throughout. A 20-foot bar along one side is a combination of maple and formica.
Kitchen facilities also have been remodeled to provide a larger working area.
throughout PAA’s Latin American Division network increased by seven per cent, from 815,933 passengers in 1953 to 873,-004 in 1954. Passenger miles (distance the passengers traveled) increased nom 798,881,000 to 830,-572,000.
Clipper cargo showed an even greater gain—15 per cent—from 25,610,096 ton-miles last year to 29,168,285 in 1954. (Figures for 1954 include the first 11 months plus a conservative estimate for December).
These trends and developments emerges from the bustling air year:
Passengers are flying both faster and farther. Pan American’s New York to Buenos Aires “President Special”, a luxury Sleeperette scr vice inaugurated November 1, is one of the airline’s most popular flights.
Super-6 Clippers in 1954 began non-stop service between New York and Caracas, Venezuela, and through one-plane service between Los Angeles, Rio and Sao Paulo, Brazil.
The ag° of group travel is here. Clubs, uiness groups — even whole conventions are flying to Caribbean and other resort .locations for their meetings. December saw the biggest commercially sponsored airlift ever to operate from the U.S.—39 special Clipper flights carrying 1,518 persons to Nassau for a moith-long International Harvester Company dealers’ “house party”. A million dollars in air travel as sales, contest prizes is expected.
Booming air cargo is rivaling passenger business in many places. PAA flew 1,640,000 pounds of cargo, mostly food, in and out of Puerto Rico during a critical month - long shipping strike there last summer. Clipper cargo soon will begin airlifts of 600 horses, from the U.S. to Colombia.
The interior of DC6-B Clippers have been rearranged to accommodate an extra ton of cargo, Wilbur L. Morrison, executive vice president in charge of LAD, recently predicted air cargo revenues will equal passenger sales within ten years.
;.'7 Air travel on credit also was (Please turn to Page 8)
Things Aren’t Same Since “Clipper” Died
Things just aren’t the same around La Aurora airport in Guatemala City since “Clipper” left.
“Clipper” was a stray dog which wandered onto the premises eight years ago and had been there ever since, taking handouts from airport employes who came to accept him as one of the family.
He died recently.
My! What Keen Ears You Have
G. Morris Singer, an electrical mechanic at COB, recalls one day he was checking over a four-engine flying boat when he found one of the engines had a slight roughness.
Turning to one of embryo mechanics who were gathered around trying to learn, he said, “Go see if there’s a plug wire off the number nine cylinder.”
The student reported back and said that he had been quite correct, then asked, “May I say, sir, that this airplane has four engines, 72 cylinders and 144 spark plugs. How did you know where to look for the trouble?”
“That was easy,” Singer replied. “I’m the guy that forgot to put the wire back on.”
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| Full Text | Preparations For Jet Age, Growth In Latin Ameriea Headline Sales Conference Streamlining sales and other airline operations to keep pace with Latin America’s phenomenal economic growth and the coming of the jet age was the target of LAD-PAA’s traffic and sales conference, just concluded. Wilbur L. Morrison, executive vice president, reported that economic conditions in all republics “south of the border” are steadily improving and that the outlook for 1955 is bright. “There are great new opportu-* nities for U. S. commercial co-1 operation with our sister countries to the south,” he said. Morrison cited Pan American’s own example in Latin America and said the division’s passenger and cargo operations in 1954 were the most successful in the airline’s 27-year history. “The outlook for next year,” he added, “is equally bright.” The four-day conference in Miami was attended by more than 65 PAA representatives/ from Latin America and U. S. gateway cities. A major innovation was the holding of classrooms in salesmanship with films, blackboard instruction and give-and-take discussions by all conferees. The conference discussed a 1955 sales program, including increased tourist travel to politically reoriented Guatemala, operation of PAA’s “Canalift” for U. S. em; ployes of the Panama Canal on home leave, promotion of new, through flights between California and Brazil, other improved services, the trend toward greater group travel and new air cargo drives. Morrison in his keynote address also said “international airline competition is increasing at a staggering rate. Today there are more competing airlines in the Caribbean than there are in the United States.” Morrison said air cargo today represents one of the most fruitful fields, adding that PAA’s cargo tonnage in Latin America in 1954 is expected to exceed last year’s record-breaking total of 43,362,000 pounds. He said Pan American has redesigned the interior of its Super-6 Clippers to add a full ton to their freight capacity. “I fully expect that within the next 10 years air cargo will equal passenger revenue in our Latin American division,” Morrison said. Edwin Drescher, division manager, also stressed the problem of increasing competition. Despite this, he said, Pan American’s traffic in the first nine months of this year exceeded forecasts and currently are running at a much better pace than in previous years. Pointing to PAA’s continued growth in Latin America, Drescher said the opening of new sales offices in Rio de Janeiro and Havana during the year had produced excellent results, and that a third new sales office, to be formally opened in Sao Paulo, Brazil, early in January, had an even greater potential. On the technological side, Drescher said atomic powered (Please turn to Page 8) Unique Cargo Drive Staged A unique cargo sales drive, believed to be the first of its kind ever held, was staged in San Jose, Costa Rica, the last week in November by three sales teams composed equally of representatives of PAA and it’s affiliate, LACSA, to stimulate trade in the Colon Free Zone. PAA sales team folks were Guillermo Bejarano, cargo supervisor; Carlos E. Rodriguez, cashier; Mario Paris, sales representative; LACSA participants were Ralph Wisser, sales solicitor; Mariano R. Chaverri, cargo supervisor; Manuel Alvarado, traffic supervisor. According to Charles E. Maher, Colon.DT/SM, it is the first such drive staged without division participation where all plans and complete administration were carried out by local personnel. During the week the drive was held, 148 calls were made by the three teams with the team of Wisser and Paris winning the prize with a total of 62 calls. The drive ended Friday evening with a conference with officials of the local Chamber of Commerce. This was followed by a cocktail party attended by the airline representatives. the Chamber group and officials of the Colon Free Zone. (Other Float Pictures on Page 8) PAPA LOVES HULA, TOO—These attractive PAA employes represented the company aboard one of the New Year’s Eve Orange Bowl Parade floats, which featured th different ways of life at PAA points. Norma LeDuc, Miami file clerk, emulates a Hawaiian hula dancer, while Renee Pereira, a teletype operator, wears the costume of a Latin American rumba dancer. THIS STRANGE BIRD was photographed at National Airlines while it was growing a new crop of feathers. Workmen quit for the day after painting in “National” and left the PAA on the tail. The aircraft is one of two DC-6B’s which PAA-ATL is loaning to National during the winter season and will be returned to PAA in May with two NAL planes for PAA to use in peak summer Trans-Atlantic service. Pam Amerf cam [Vorid A/rhams LATIN AMERICAN DIVISION VOL. 12, NO. 1 JANUARY 1955 550107 Peruvian Loses $2,200 On Plane; PAA Returns It If you want a testimonial as to the honesty of PAA personnal at Tocumen, a passenger by the name of Luis Nunez will be glad to oblige. Nunez, a member of the Peruvian marksmen delegation to the championship tournament in Caracas, lost a briefcase containing $2,200 and important documents at Tocumen in transit. But before he could say, “Good gravy! I’ve lost my briefcase!” assistant station manager Silvio “Papito” Hernandez had found it. Hernandez immediately had the briefcase forwarded on another flight to Maiquetia, where Nunez picked it up. Cacaras newspaper “El Universal” carried the story of Nunez’ expei’ience and praised the honesty of PAA’s employes at Tocumen. Change Adds Cargo Space A re-designed forward compartment has added nearly a ton to the cargo capacity of PAA’s Super-6 Clippers. A removable partition is being installed in the compartment that gives easy access to the entire area through the 44-inch wide forward fuselage door. Formerly, part of the hold had to be loaded through a 20-inch cockpit door, limiting size of packages. The partition, plus installation of removable folding seats, also enables the space to be used for eight to 14 passengers if needed. With the new flexible arrangement, cargo can be quickly loaded aboard at station stops when the forward passenger space is not utilized. The modification on the 17 Super-6 Clippers that fly Latin American routes now is underway at Pan American’s Miami Overhaul Base. Three Countries Combine To Help Dog-Bite Victim A woman bitten by a dog in Colombia started a chain reaction which involved three countries and ended in anti-rabies shots being flown by PAA to Barranquilla. It all started when the wife of a bank manager was bitten by a dog in mid-morning. Since the dog was suspected of having rabies, the bank contacted its New York office, which in turn got in touch with PAA’s New York office. LAD in Miami was then in-_formed and a quick message was dispatched to Panama, where a series of anti-rabies shots were available. The PAA flight from Tocumen to Barranquilla was held up half an hour awaiting the vaccine and at 12:30 p.m., the plane took off. At 2:00, the first shot was administered to the patient, little more than four hours after she had been bitten. PAA Travel Records Broken In ’54; See ’55 Even Brighter Record-breaking air travel between the United States and Latin America in 1954 is reported by PAA. Prospects for 1955 are even brighter. Clipper passengers traveling through PAA’s six gateways —New York, Miami, New Orleans, Brownsville, Houston and Los Angeles—numbered 675,032, up eight per cent over 1953. Yr Total travel Prep ares LAD Improvements For Stations PAA is spending $200,000 on improving its terminals and offices in Latin America to provide better facilities for increasing traffic in that area. The program includes modernization of district sales and cargo offices, terminal facilities, and a new $20,000 Clipper passenger club at Havana’s Jose Marti airport. Conveyor belts have been installed at most stations, along with a minimum of two weighing scales at ticket counters, to expedite luggage handling. New light fixtures and air conditioning have been added to sales offices. Stations which have been remodeled are Montego Bay and Kingston, Jamaica; Port-au-Prince, Haiti, and Ciudad Trujillo, Dominican Republic. Nearly $25,000 was spent at Tocumen airport, Panama, and plans are underway for improvements at Guatemala City and San Salvador. In Caracas the cargo sales office is being moved closer to the customs office and the district sales office will be redecorated. Installation and improvement of fueling systems is being carried out at various stations and runway and field repairs are being made, particularly at PAA’s Bowen field, Port-au-Prince, which was damaged during last fall’s hurricane Hazel. * A * $20,000 Clipper Club Re-Opened In Havana PAA’s Clipper Club in Havana, recently remodeled at a cost of nearly $20,000, is re-opening on the second floor of the PAA terminal. Spacious glass windows overlook Jose Marti Airport. The 1,200-square foot lounge is decorated in shades of off-white, green and pink and furnished with modern black and white wrought-iron chairs and tables. The ceiling is of fibered plastic with indirect lighting throughout. A 20-foot bar along one side is a combination of maple and formica. Kitchen facilities also have been remodeled to provide a larger working area. throughout PAA’s Latin American Division network increased by seven per cent, from 815,933 passengers in 1953 to 873,-004 in 1954. Passenger miles (distance the passengers traveled) increased nom 798,881,000 to 830,-572,000. Clipper cargo showed an even greater gain—15 per cent—from 25,610,096 ton-miles last year to 29,168,285 in 1954. (Figures for 1954 include the first 11 months plus a conservative estimate for December). These trends and developments emerges from the bustling air year: Passengers are flying both faster and farther. Pan American’s New York to Buenos Aires “President Special”, a luxury Sleeperette scr vice inaugurated November 1, is one of the airline’s most popular flights. Super-6 Clippers in 1954 began non-stop service between New York and Caracas, Venezuela, and through one-plane service between Los Angeles, Rio and Sao Paulo, Brazil. The ag° of group travel is here. Clubs, uiness groups — even whole conventions are flying to Caribbean and other resort .locations for their meetings. December saw the biggest commercially sponsored airlift ever to operate from the U.S.—39 special Clipper flights carrying 1,518 persons to Nassau for a moith-long International Harvester Company dealers’ “house party”. A million dollars in air travel as sales, contest prizes is expected. Booming air cargo is rivaling passenger business in many places. PAA flew 1,640,000 pounds of cargo, mostly food, in and out of Puerto Rico during a critical month - long shipping strike there last summer. Clipper cargo soon will begin airlifts of 600 horses, from the U.S. to Colombia. The interior of DC6-B Clippers have been rearranged to accommodate an extra ton of cargo, Wilbur L. Morrison, executive vice president in charge of LAD, recently predicted air cargo revenues will equal passenger sales within ten years. ;.'7 Air travel on credit also was (Please turn to Page 8) Things Aren’t Same Since “Clipper” Died Things just aren’t the same around La Aurora airport in Guatemala City since “Clipper” left. “Clipper” was a stray dog which wandered onto the premises eight years ago and had been there ever since, taking handouts from airport employes who came to accept him as one of the family. He died recently. My! What Keen Ears You Have G. Morris Singer, an electrical mechanic at COB, recalls one day he was checking over a four-engine flying boat when he found one of the engines had a slight roughness. Turning to one of embryo mechanics who were gathered around trying to learn, he said, “Go see if there’s a plug wire off the number nine cylinder.” The student reported back and said that he had been quite correct, then asked, “May I say, sir, that this airplane has four engines, 72 cylinders and 144 spark plugs. How did you know where to look for the trouble?” “That was easy,” Singer replied. “I’m the guy that forgot to put the wire back on.” |
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