Pan American air ways, Vol. 2, No. 1, February 2, 1931

              Vol. 2. No. 1
February 2, 1931
Pan American Air Ways
122 East 42nd Street, New York City
MIAMI-CANAL ZONE PASSENGER LINE OPENS VIA JAMAICA-CUBA
The longest regularly scheduled overwater passenger flight in the world was inaugurated Tuesday, December 30th, when a giant Commodore plane, piloted by F. V. Clark, took off from Dinner Key Base in Miami bound for Cristobal, the Canal Zone, via Cienfuegos, Cuba and Kingston, Jamaica; Charles A. Lorber, co-pilot, George Grose, radio operator, and John M. Navarro, steward, made up the remainder of the crew.
Detailed accounts of the progress of the initial flight were printed in the New York Times. Pilot Clark sent the accounts by radio. They gave an excellent word picture of each stage of the flight.
The first port of call was Cienfuegos, Cuba, an overnight stop. Early the next morning the flying boat with fifty-two sacks of mail aboard soared out for Kingston, Jamaica, the jumping off place for the longest regularly scheduled over-water hop in the world
Balmy weather marked the flight throughout. At Kingston Miss Baracara Lloyd, a young American lady, booked passage for Cristobal and gained the distinction of being the first woman to fly across the Caribbean in a single day. The other passenger that boarded the flying boat for the Canal Zone was A. K. Gillman, a local publisher on a business trip.
Approximately seven hours after leaving Kingston the first trans-Caribbean passenger flying boat settled down in the waters of Coco Solo naval base on the Atlantic side of the Canal.
GOVERNOR OF BAHAMAS PRAISES P. A. A. SERVICE
His Excellency C. W. Orr, Governor of the Bahamas highly praised the Pan American Airways for the service and courtesy extended him and his party on a recent flight to Miami to witness the air races.
The letter of appreciation from his Aide-de-Camp says in part: “Everything that could be devised for the comfort of His Excellency and his party was provided by the staff of Pan American Airways, whose courtesy and help were never failing. Indeed His Excellency has experienced nothing but courtesy from Pan American Airways during the three years that he has been privileged to know them, and he has learned to regard courtesy to all who have dealings with them as one of the outstanding features of the Company, coupled as it is with Reliability, Punctuality, and Efficiency.”
SEA PLANE PILOTS Special Supplement With This Issue Also full text of Pilot’s Story on First Passenger Trans-Caribbean Flight.
1930
A Statement by J. T. Trippe, President of the Pan American Airways System
The year 1930 marked completion of the pioneering stage of the development of air transport routes between the United States and the countries of the West Indies, Central and South America. Today the Pan American Airways System, representing a community of interests on the part of the Government, the American people and the industries of Aviation, Commerce, ahd Finance, have completed establishment of a 22,000 mile network of airways joining the United States with every country but two in Latin America. Two great trunk lines are now in operation reaching through Mexico and Central America, across the Caribbean Sea, through the West Indies, down the southern coasts of both the Atlantic and Pacific and across the formidable Andes in the southern section of South America. Over these lines a fleet of 98 transport planes, guided by radio over modern airways operate on co-ordinated schedules to twenty republics, cutting the best possible travel time to one-third or better. Buenos Aires and New York are but seven days apart; Rio is the same distance away; Panama linked by a 1,385-mile airline across the Caribbean Sea, from Miami, is reached in the daylight hours of a day and a half. Barriers of time and distance between the peoples of North, Central and South America are now, for the first time, removed.
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Morro Castle, Santo Domingo
NEW MANAGER SYSTEM INSTALLED FOR P.A.A.
Dunten-Balluder Named
PAN-GRACE UNAFFECTED
J. T. Trippe Expects New System To Bring Higher Efficiency
A reorganization of divisional managership was instituted over the Pan American Airways January 1, 1931, on each division. At the same time the territorial limits of each division were altered to fit in with the new plan of organization.
R. I. Dunten and E. Balluder have been named managers of the Caribbean and Mexican Divisions respectively. Mr. Dunten was formerly operations manager of Division 1 and Mr. Balluder was general manager of the Compania Mexicana de Aviacion.
Under the new plan the territory assigned to divisions and the designation by which each will be known is as (Continued on page 85)
Weekly Service Between
Venezuela and Trinidad
Air mail service between Venezuela and Trinidad will be inaugurated on February 11th, eastbound, and February 13th, westbound, according to a recent announcement by the United States Post Office Department.
In establishing this new mail service the route has been changed, planes flying from Maracaibo directly to Caracas, thence to Maturin and finally to Port of Spain, Trinidad. This service will be run on a weekly schedule.
FIRST TRAIN-PLANE PASSENGER N. Y.-PANAMA
The first through passenger over the new train-plane route from New York to Panama, connecting fast railroad express service to Florida with the longest over-seas air line in the world was Dudley Morrison of the National City Bank.
Mr. Morrison boarded the “Havana Special” Wednesday evening, January 7th, arrived at Miami the following Friday morning and made direct connections with the Commodore flying boat which crosses the Caribbean from Jamaica to Panama in a single day. He arrived in Cristobal, Canal Zone, via Cuba and Jamaica, Saturday, January 10th, just two and a half days after leaving New York.
The new train-plane hook-up saves from two and a half to three days over steamer time for the 2,600 mile trip.