News digest, Vol. 1, No. 19, June 20, 1945

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PAN AMERICAN WORLD AIRWAY PACIFIC-ALASKA DIVISION NEWS DIGEST
News of the Company and aircraft Industry compiled for our employees and Friends Vol. 1, No. 19	San Francisco	June 20, 1945-
PAN AMERICAN TO RESUME PACIFIC COMMERCIAL SERVICES
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Commercial air transportation services across the Pacific may be resumed by Pan American World Airways by January 1st, 1946 if not earlier, according to L.C. Reynolds, Manager, Pacific Alaska Division.
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The contract under which Pan American has been operating the Clippers and other naval aircraft for the Naval Air Transport Service is to be terminated by December 31st, 1945, Mr. Reynolds stated. This is the direct result of a feeling in Congress that the Navy in the Pacific has now reached a position where it can maintain sufficient air transportation without the assistance of any contractor operator. This cancellation will permit resumption of commercial services to Honolulu and beyond, if conditions at that time permit.
Since Pearl Harbor, Pan American operated aircraft in the Pacific Area have flown over 22,100,000 miles, carried approximately 60,000 passengers, and more than 36,600,000 ton miles of cargo and mail from the mainland of the United-States to Honolulu, Midway, New Zealand, Australia, and many other islands in the South Pacific.	i
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While this cancellation will terminate all PAA Navy Air Transport contracts, the Company’s Africa Orient division continues to operate Array transport services across the Atlantic Ocean both from Now York and Miami, Fla, to Casablanca supplying the India, Burma, China theatre of war, this being the largest contract service being performed for the Air Transport Command by any American commercial air transportation company.
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The entire fleet operated in trio Pacific Ocean by PAA. for the. Naval Air Transport Service during May flew 108.4/2 of schedule miles to establish.a new record. Over 2,650,000 available ton miles, wore flown, representing an increase of approximately 70^2 since the end of 1944. This was the direct result of increased aircraft utilization and.greater cabin loads.
The fleet of naval flying cargo boats opérât .d by Pan American established the highest rate of utilization obtained by any unit operating this type of aircraft under the Naval Air Transport Service.
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For 1944, the third year of war-time flying, the gross business of Pan American Airways Corporation amounted to.$93,000,000, Juan T, Trippc, President, reported in the corporation’s 17th annual report mailed recently to stockholders.
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