Pan American clipper, Vol. 3, No. 7, September 1945

              Vol. 3, No. 7	Alaska Sector	September, 1945
District Sales Office Celebrates First Birthday
Celebrating one year of commercial operation August 1, the Alaska Sector this issue salutes the District Sales Office, which has handled since the contract cancellation 99
percent of the ticket sales.
In addition to handling the traffic sales for Northbound Clippers, District Sales arranges fares for Northwest passengers bound for other corners of the Globe to which Pan American extends her service. "Business is fair for all other Divisions, that is, what I can see of it from here,” states WALT ZEISER, DSO Manager, "but our own Alaska business is booming.”
Major development in the life of the Sector since the cancellation that has affected sales, explained Zeiser, was the changeover from Lodestars to an all-Douglas fleet, the end of last year. Prior to that, Sector service was curbed insofar as there were not sufficient seats to compensate for the demand.
In one year of commercial operation, the Sector has flown 1,618,287 revenue ton miles; carried 1,400,990 pounds of cargo and 12,336 passengers, including unaccompanied children, 10-day old babies, playwrights, politicians, businessmen, an 86-year-old lady, high-ranking ecclesi-
astical dignitaries, statesmen, sourdoughs and entertainers.
Walt began his PA A career, September, 1941, with the New York District Sales Office. In July of 1944, he was transferred to Seattle. Prior to that time, Sales had functioned merely as a ticket and dispatch office, where passengers cleared by the Navy for Clipper travel arranged their fares. The re-establishment of Sales under Walt’s guidance, was practically the first step taken in restoring our operation to a commercial basis. ("Our main concern those first few days,” confided Walt, "was to locate our furniture, scattered throughout the Sector.)
NEW FLIGHT SCHEDULE
To meet the increased demand for air travel between Seattle, Ketchikan and Juneau, the Alaska Sector, August 27, announced an extra daily round trip flight between these cities. The new schedule makes available to PAA passengers flying between these points twenty round-trip flights a week.
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SECTOR UTILIZATION HITS ALL-TIME HIGH
Soaring to its highest mark since the Sector’s return to commercial operation a year ago last August, utilization hit the gong at 9 hours and 56 minutes during' the month of August, 1945, Captain Goodwyn announced.
This figure tops by nine minutes the record set for utilization during the 23 months of our Naval Contract. April 1944 Alaska Sector Clippers racing back and forth between Seattle and the Aleutians in their vital participation in the defense of Alaska achieved a maximum of 9 hours 47 minutes.
"The entire Sector is to be congratulated in achieving this present record,” said Goodwyn, "for without the smooth, efficient coordination of all hands performing their tasks, this figure of utilization could never have been attained. But,” he warned, with an I-know-we-can-do-it gleam in his eye, "let’s strive for an even higher mark! However, it should be remembered that, whatever our goal, our high standards of safety in operation should not be compromised. Utilization and Safety go hand in hand.”
DIVISION EASES BACK INTO PRE-WAR 40-HOUR WEEK
Back to forty hours, effective September 1! The announcement, made August 24 by Division Manager L. C. Reynolds, swept through the Sector like a brush fire.
In declaring the new 40-hour week for Pacific-Alaska Division employees, Reynolds reviewed the conditions necessitating the 48-hour week for employees, which was instituted early in 1943, and brought with it a 20 percent temporary wartime increment in the pay of most salaried workers. In restoring the Division to 40 hours, those employees, he stated, will have their salaries "adjusted downward by one-half the amount of that increment. The compensation of those employees who are not receiving the temporary wartime increment will continue unchanged after September 1.”
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