Clipper, Vol. 9, No. 8, August 1952

              Our Goal Should Always Be A Satisfied Customer
VOL. 9, No. 8
AUGUST, 1952
Arguments With Passengers Are Never Won
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World Premiere of PA A Movie Set for LADers
LAD Travel Figures Are Soaring
Gain of 12 Per Cent In First Half Of 1952 Recorded
Pan American World Airways is well on its way to a record year in Latin American traffic.
Final reports on all Clipper flights in South and Central America and the Caribbean for the first six months of 1952 show a total of 382,902,755 passenger-miles flown. (A passenger flown a mile is a passenger-mile.)
This is a gain of 12 per cent over the first half of 1951—the best year in the history of LAD.
The figures show that the travel trend is leveling out — there is less disparity between the passenger movement in summer and winter, although the latter is still ahead.
Havana and Nassau are good examples. The total Clipper traffic between Miami and these resorts for the first six months of 1952 is only slightly ahead of the 1951 half-year volume, but it is far out in front for the last two months of the period.
During May and June, PAA carried 22,604 passengers between Miami and Havana, compared to 18,785 in the same two months of 1951. The Miami-Nassau traffic in May and June totaled 10,156 persons, 40 per cent more than the 7,194 in the same period last year.
Total traffic through the Miami gateway for the half year was 172,092 passengers, compared to 165,372 for the first half of 1951.
Returns from scattered stations for July indicate no cessation of summer travel in the Caribbean. San Juan, Puerto Rico, handled 28,755 passengers, the biggest month in its history, and Curacao, Netherlands West Indies, had 727, compared to 651 in July, 1951.
Nassau and Havana also are still booming. July traffic between Miami and Nassau totaled 6,286 persons—a thousand more than the 5,229 of July last year — and Miami-Havana travel rose to 14,-057 from 13,139 in July, 1951.
Delegates from PAA Attend Legion Meet
Three members of PAA Post 140 of the American Legion and Auxiliary at Miami attended the recent State Legion convention in Tallahassee to represent their groups at the 34th annual event.
Representing PAA were Jerome Massel and Russell F. Cooper as Legion delegates, and Mrs. Cooper for the Auxiliary. All three participated in the Legion parade which was reviewed by state Legion officials and governor-elect Dan McCarty.	\
Parham Makes Trip
Charles H. “Pete” Parham, Foreman of the Accessory Overhaul Shop at COB in Miami, is on a three week’s “observation” trip to the Douglas plant in Santa Monica, California and to the PAD shops in San Francisco. “Pete” expects to pick up some pointers on maintenance work on PAA’s new Super 6 Clippers.
Big Prizes To Be Given At Affair
25 Years of Progress Is Told In New Movie
An action-packed movie which tells the story of Pan American World Airways’ 25 years of progress is being given its premiere showing for all PAA employes and their families August 27 and 28 at the Dade County Auditorium.
Commemorating the approaching 25th anniversary of PAA, the movie “New Horizons,” is part of an elaborate “family party” planned for Miami personnel, which includes awarding each night travel prizes, souvenirs for employes, music by one of Miami’s outstanding bands, a talk by one of LAD’s top officials, and the showing of a travel film.
So that all employes, regardless of the hours they work, may take part in this “family” event, in addition to the two evening showings, at 8 p.m., “New Horizons” and the full program also is being presented one morning for those who work on the night shift.
LAD is joining with the Atlantic and Pacific-Alaska Divisions in bringing this film to all PAA employes. As rapidly as possible, “New Horizons” also is to be shown at Stations throughout LAD, giving all employes a chance to see for themselves the strides PAA has made since its inception nearly 25 years ago when it opened service between Key West, Florida, and Havana.
Tickets are being issued to employes so that everyone will have seats for each performance. And also, the tickets will have special value since they will be the basis on which the travel prizes are awarded.
The showing is solely for PAA employes and their families, LAD officials pointed out. “New Horizons” will not be shown the public until later on this year when all employes have viewed it.
So, plan to be in the Dade County Auditorium at 8 p.m. on August 27 or 28 for plenty of fun and an opportunity to learn more about PAA.
Three Men Join LAD Instructor Group
Three names have been added to the Flight Instructor group in Miami. Rejoining PAA is JRussell Howard while Alfred Nerhige and James Lofgren are new faces on the Instructor staff. All three men are teaching student fliers.
New Tour Fare Flights Spur Clipper Travel
Inauguration by Pan American World Airways of low-fare trans-Atlantic tourist-class service, an objective long sought by the company, resulted in June in an increase of 35 per cent in revenue passenger miles as compared with the same month last year, Juan T. Trippe, the airline’s President, told the annual meeting of stockholders.
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1952, commercial revenues for the
company as a whole represented a 12 per cent increase over the volume of business recorded for the same period of 1951. Revenue passenger miles of 652,000,000 represented an increase of 14 per cent. A 15 per cent increase was recorded in cargo ton miles operated.
Trippe reported that the Company has completed two years of Korean Airlift service in the Pacific and is continuing its important responsibilities in linking Berln with Western Germany.
PAA hopes to establish transpacific tourist-class operations during 1953, thus completing the pattern of low-fare service which the Company pioneered between Puerto Rico and New York in 1948, he said.
On national defense, Trippe told stockholders that PAA, the first airline in the emergency Korean Airlift, has completed two years of defense duty in the Pacific with operations continuing on a round-Continued on Page 3
Auto Parking Lot, Plane Wash Rack Planned in Miami
Thirty-three and a half additional acres of land at Miami International Airport have been leased from the Dade County Port Authority by PAA for construction of an aircraft wash rack and an 800-car employes parking lot.
Bids on the $78,000 project are expected to be called for this month, with work beginning as soon as possible after the contract is let.
The new plane wash rack will be located west of the PAA hangar area and adjacent to the old east-west runway on the 36th Street side of the airport. The parking lot will be west of PAA’s Public Relations Building, with entrance from 36th Street.
Priester Marks 25 Years With Pan American
Andre A. Priester, known as “Mr. Airline himself,” and more officially as Vice President and Chief Engineer of Pan American World Airways in July, completed 25 years with the international airline.
One of the world’s outstanding air transportation engineers, Priester has played a leading part in the design and development of commercial air transports from the Fokker F-7 and Sikorsky S-38 to the Boeing Stratocruiser. He is at present working on a jet transport development program.
In his quarter century of buying aircraft for PAA, Priester has had his “needle” in the manufacturers, stimulating them to provide greater safety with more speed, more range, and greater economy. Safety has always been his major consideration in operation, servicing and maintenance of aircraft as he helped pioneer PAA’s routes throughout the world.
Through the years, Priester has helped foster many of the outstanding technical developments in civil aviation, such as long range cruising techniques, more efficient power plants, more efficient fuels, and highly trained multiple crews.
25 Years of PAA Progress
THEN AND NOW—The Fokker F-7 shown in the upper picture is the type airplane that really introduced PAA service to travellers to Latin America nearly 25 years ago when the airline began its service southward. Below is the giant “Strato” Clipper which provides the luxurious and speedy service the travelling public of today demands. See the story of this progress on film at the premiere showing of “New Horizons” at the Dade County Auditorium August 27, and 28.
PAA Softball Team On Rio TV Show
The PAA team in the Rio de Janeiro Softball League had the distinction of taking part in the first televising of a ball game over Rio’s TV station TUPI on July 26.
They played the United States Air Force team and put on a whale of a show in giving Brazilian TV viewers their first glimpse of the American pastime.