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PUBLISHED BY THE EMPLOYES OP PAN AMERICAN WORLD AIRWAYS
FIRST ANNIVERSARY
Pan American and Sub-Contracting Airlines Compile impressive Record on Pacific Air Lift
Vol. 7 No. 14______________________
CAB Asked to Reconsider Alaska Service Decision
Pan American Seeks Changes In Recent New Route Awards
On June 21st Pan American filed with the CAB a Petition for Reconsideration of the final decision in Alaska Service Case. The Petition asks that a further order be issued containing the following changes:
(1)	Omit authorization to Alaska Airlines to operate between Seattle/ Portland and Fairbanks.
(2)	Omit authorization to PNA to provide any local service between Seattle/Portland and Juneau.
(3)	If the Board does not sustain PAA’s contention that change (2) should be made, then restrict the authorization of PNA to operate between Portland and Juneau to flights which originate or terminate at Anchorage (the same as for operations between Seattle and Anchorage) .
(4)	If Changes (1) and (2) are denied, or either of them, then fix July 31, 1953 as the date of expiration of the temporary certificates issued.
Pan American cited the following easons in support of its Pettition:
The findings of the Examiner and of the Board make it clear that the public convenience and necessity do NOT require this additional service.
For at least two reason there is (Continued on Page 8)
Just a year ago last Friday a Pan American DC-4 left the United States bound for Tokyo, and with that flight the world’s biggest and longest air lift was born.
As the first anniversary of the Pacific air lift passed, the evidence of the close teamwork between the commercial airlines and the Military has become increasingly defined. Hurriedly organized under the pressure of urgently needed supplies and reinforcements, the air lift is currently at its highest level of efficiency as a steady stream of airliners of MATS and the major air carriers are transporting men and materials from the West Coast to Tokyo.
“Hurry up and wait”—an expression made famous during the last war cannot be applied to the air lift today. After a flight of some 45 hours troops step off their air lift plane in Tokyo and are ready to join their respective units. The return flights carrying wounded or dependents are handled with the same dispatch.
Within a few weeks of the beginning of the Pacific air lift Pan American’s military operations exceed those of its regular commercial runs.
A number of problems arose requiring immediate action. One was the adequate staffing of Wake Island and Tokyo with personnel to handle the greatly increased number of flights. San Francisco mechanics too, experienced an increase in work to be done. The effectiveness of the way this job was handled is best illustrated by PAA’s utilization figures—better than 12 hours a day for the air lift planes!
PAA has also compiled an average turnaround time at Tokyo of less than four hours.
The dramatic lines of planes that marked the early days of the air lift are gone. With that went the scene of a dispatch office crowded with pilots and navigators waiting for an airplane. And idle GI’s, who once packed every terminal along the route to Tokyo, have been reduced in number to only as many as one air lift plane can carry.
What has happened is that the planes that were once on the ground are now in the air. The soldiers that once waited for the first available plane are now arriving at the airport for a scheduled flight and are on their way.
As the efficiency of the air lift (Continued on Page 5)
July 5, 1951
Passenger Service Meet Held in San Francisco
Committee Will Standardize System Passenger Handling
Last week in San Francisco the System Passenger Service Committee held its third meeting. Under the leadership of John Muhlfeld, General Sales Manager for the System, the Traffic and Sales Managers and Service Managers for PAA’s three divisions have been getting together periodically to discuss means of improving passenger handling both on the ground and in the air.
Coupled with this aim has been an effort to standardize the procedures and facilities throughout the three divisions. Each division has its own working committee, and from these will come the ideas for standardization and improvement. On this committee for the PAD are chairman Herb Milley, Frank Hull, Ed Young and Gerrit Roelof.
Literally hundreds of individual items are being covered in the meetings. For example, the PAD, a leader in group movements such as the recent J. D. Howard tour to Honolulu for college girls, outlined its methods in obtaining this lucrative business.
Other items covered run the range from visual seat assignment boards to bassinets to swizzel sticks.
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