Clipper, Vol. 4, No. 10, August 25, 1948

              Paw American World Airways
PACIFIC-ALASKA DIVISION
13th YEAR	! * s i	16th YEAR
PACIFIC-ALASKA	IMI m MÆMÆMs '	PAA HAS FLOWN
DIVISION		IN ALASKA
Read From California to Calcutta, From Alaska to Australia
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Vol. 4 No. 10	PUBLISHED BY THE EMPLOYES OF PAN AMERICAN WORLD AIRWAYS	AllgUSt 25, 1948
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Operations Manager for the Panair Flying Club George Giller checks the fuel supply in the new Cessna 140 which the club plans to purchase. For details on how to win a free membership in the club or a television set, see story on this page.
Panair Flying Club Will Modernize Its Air Force
Raffle Tickets Now on Sale To Help Purchase New Plane
Have you wondered what those little yellow tickets are that everyone’s buying ? Some lucky guy or gal is going to win either a membership in the Panair Flying Club with a year’s dues paid up, plus 40 hours of flight time (10 dual, 30 solo), or a Tele-king television set.
The tickets are being sold by members of the Panair Flying Club in order to raise money for the purchase of a new Cessna 140. The club also plans to raise additional money through the sale of one of the Taylorcrafts now in its air force.
When the Cessna is acquired it will be used primarily as a crosscountry plane, and the remaining Taylorcraft will be used for training purposes.
The Club has announced that there will be a few memberships available presently. The membership ee is $125. Upon withdrawal from che club this sum is refundable to the member. Dues are $3 a month, and flying time costs $3 an hour solo and $4 and hour dual. These prices are far below what it would cost for the time at the current regular rates.
Anyone interested in joining the Panair Flying Club can get complete information from John Becker in Planning, Bob Franseen in Flight Engineering or George Giller of Plane Service.
The drawing for the prize will be held at a “hangar party” at Bay Meadows Airport on September 3. Club officials also announced that there will be a meeting of the club in the Bay Meadows Pilots’ Lounge at 7:30 on August 30. Anyone interested in joining the club is invited to attend this meeting.
Airways Legion Post Installs Six Newly Elected Officers
Airways Post No. 711 of the American Legion installed newly elected officers on August 12 at the Legion Hall at Mills Field.
The officers are:
Bill Moore, TWA, Commander
Dale Cramer, Skyway Cafe, Vice-Commander
Earl Rose, PAA, 2nd Vice-Commander
W. H. MacDonald, PAA, Adjutant
C. C. Fitzgerald, PAA, Sgt. at \rms
Vern Strohm, PAA, Finance Officer
The members are all veterans of either World War I or II, and are employed with the various airline organizations at Mills Field.
Dorothy Doerr, Bill Ludlow Announce PAA Merger in LAX
Dorothy Doerr, chief telephone operator for Pan American in Los Angeles, and William N. Ludlow, sales representative for the airline, were recently married in San Gabriel at the Church of Our Savior.
At the close of the ceremony a reception was held at the Doerr home. Later the bride and groom left for a motor trip to Santa Barbara, San Francisco and Reno.
Upon their return the couple settled down to housekeeping in Los Angeles.
Things Like This'll Renew All Your Faith in Mankind
A man recently walked into a clothing store in Kowloon (where Pan American’s Hong Kong flights land) and said he’d like to pay a small bill he owed.
Checking on the name, the manager couldn’t find it right away. The gentleman then told him that it was a little over-due —he had incurred the debt in 1939, but a chain of circumstances had prevented his return to Kowloon.
The manager said thanks just the same, but that he had long ago written the amount off as a bad debt. But the gentleman insisted on paying the fifteen dollars; so the manager shook vigorously the hand of Pan American Skipper Pat Nolan.
Swing Shift, Week-End Work Cut to the Minimum
Boyle Outlines Reason Why Such Shifts are Necessary
In the recent idea and suggestion survey conducted by Stanford University, a number of our employees commented that they would like to see swing shift work and week-end work eliminated.
Accordingly, Shop Superintendent J. C. Boyle has given the following information concerningg the efforts of the Maintenance Department to eliminate as much of this work as possible!
An effective effort to accomplish this has been underway in the Maintenance Shops for the past six months. Prior to that time, we were in the transition period from seaplanes to landplanes, receiving some planes from the conversion lines of other companies, modifying and converting some in our own shops, manufacturing Sleeperette chairs, and inaugurating our post war routes and schedules. During this period, it was impossible to accomplish the necessary work on a five day week, eight hour day without exorbitant loss of available plane time, overload of available equipment and undue loss of time in completing individual projects.
During the first part of this year, it was necessary for the shops to maintain an extremely high level of (Continued on Page 2)
Airlines Have Hard Time With Postwar Transition
Signs of Future Stability Seen by “American Aviation“
(The following is a condensation of an editorial from the July 15th issue of American Aviation).
There are a few bright spots in the air transport industry today, but you have to look mighty hard to find them. The probable truth is that 1948 is the hardest and toughest year the airlines have ever experienced.
Management has never been faced with such a complexity of harassing problems. The postwar program of expansion of routes, frequencies and new equipment has been sideswiped by soaring costs and the general inflationary trend of domestic economy. Unpracticed and inexperienced in general industrial trends, the airlines were caught short by increased operating costs. Being public utilities, they are not free agents to match automatically the price of their services with their costs.
This is a stringent period of adjustment, of pioneering in the field of economics in the same intense manner in which management pioneered in technical flying development before the war. It is a period of adjustment in which airline managements are being thoroughly tested.
Airline managements are probably no less smart than managements of other industries, but the effects of decisions appear much more rapidly in air transport than in most other lines of endeavor.
Many of todays airline troubles have been beyond the control of the industry itself.
The usual summer seasonal recouping of winter losses is not going to happen in any major degree despite the generally good traffic figures. Not only will the summer profits be lower than normally expected, but the winter losses were too great to overcome completely.
It has been a painful postwar transition which the airlines are experiencing in their development into a sound transportation industry. But there are signs here and there that out of the dismal current outlook will come stability and a reasonable balance between revenues and costs.
The San Francisco Public Utilities Commission is proposing to place on the November, 1948, city election ballot a bond issue of $8,600,000 for the purpose of completing all work at the San Francisco Airport — a step made necessary by the skyrocketing of costs.
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