Clipper, Vol. 11, No. 9, April 28, 1955

              Read From California To Calcutta, From Alaska To Australasia
Vol. 11 NO. 9	PUBLISHED BY THE EMPLOYEES OF PAN AMERICAN WORLD AIRWAYS	ApHl 28, 1955
A LOT OF SHOTS FOR THE TOTS
A Pan American Clipper carried the first shipment of Salk polio vaccine to the Hawaiian Islands last week. Above ramp crewmen Joe Saitz has picked up the shipment from the refrigerators in cargo and is about to load it aboard the plane. Looking on and thankful for the lives that it will save is stewardess Helen Vavoudes.
PAA PROTESTS DISCRIMINATION
CAB Order Asks Pan American to Accept Mail Pay Based on Great Circle Route Mileage It Can't Fly
Additional Flights To Boost Orient Service
Manila, Saigon, Singapore,
Hong Kong, Bangkok Affected
Pan American will increase service on two of its Orient routes next month.
On May 14th an additional trip will be inaugurated between Ma-nila-Saigon-Singapore. This will give PAA three trips weekly over the route, all operated with DC-4 equipment.
Four days later Flight 821, which now terminates at Hong Kong, will be extended to Bangkok, and Flight 832 will originate at the Thai capital instead of Hong Kong. This change will give Pan American five weekly flights between the two points. All are operated with DC-6B equipment.
Advertising Can’t Keep Quiet About Being Quiet
Inserted in this issue of the CLIPPER is one in a series of new advertisements prepared by the PAD Advertising department. It is now appearing in Hawaii, and local adaptations of the same idea will be used at other Pacific points served by Pan American.
The advertisement has been included so that employees will be aware of the selling points that PAA has to offer in competing with other airlines.
TIME TO LOOK
Stewardess Pat Melarkey is shown getting a magazine for a Rainbow passenger. See page eight to find out about the other 40,545 magazines to be bought this year by the PAD.
Pan American has protested a CAB proposal to reduce its service mail rate across the Pacific to the extent that its competitor, Northwest Airlines, would receive 32 per cent more money for performing exactly the same service.
The. CAB had issued a show cause order to Pan American and Northwest proposing equalization of mileages for the computation of mail pay in Pacific operations. The order would leave the present 50 cents per ton-mile rate, unchanged, but mail pay for both airlines would be computed on a standard mileage of 5,078 miles between the United States and Tokyo, irrespective of the routing or U.S. points involved.
The purpose of the order was to permit PAA to compete for mail— particularly the heavy military mail shipments—which has lately been going in increasing amounts on Northwest. The choice of NWA by the Post Office is a natural one. The Post Office pays by the ton-mile, and NWA’s Great Circle route is 5,078 miles compared with PAA’s mileage of 6,688.
Pan American officials, in com-
menting on the discriminatory proposal, said:
“The proposal is that the government pay for the carriage of United States mail to and from Tokyo as if Pan American were allowed to fly a course which the government does not presently allow it to fly.
“The order means that Northwest will be paid 50 cents a ton-mile for carrying mail whereas Pan American will be paid 38 cents. Putting this in another way, the United States Government would be paying one citizen, Northwest Airlines, 32 per cent more than it pays another citizen, Pan American, for rendering the same service.”
PAA in its answer to the CAB further pointed out that the fiction of assuming that a carrier flies 1,610 miles less than in fact it does is without precedent.
90,000 tourists spent an estimated forty million dollars in Japan in 1954.__________
Douglas’ first DC-7C has reached the assembly area.
Use Of Old Bayshore Highway is Restricted
SFO Employees Must Confine Travel to Essential Business
San Francisco employees have been cautioned by the management of the International Airport to confine their travel over the old Bay-shore Highway between San Bruno Avenue and the new terminal building to essential business only.
This restriction has been necessitated by the opening of American Airlines’ maintenance base on the west side of the old highway. There is a taxiway connecting this base to the main terminal area, and at times the road will be closed to permit the crossing of aircraft.
The crossing will be controlled by means of railroad grade crossing type gates with arterial stop signs and red lights.
The cooperation of the employees of Pan American and other airlines is necessary to assure continued use of Old Bayshore for essential traffic.
Occupancy at IHC hotels for the first two months of 1955 shows a gain of nine per cent over the same period last year.
SUITCASE SAGA
Anybody missing a suitcase? Marguerite Bontemps of Scheduling looks over the tag on a nice blue suitcase that has been resting atop the flight crew mail boxes in the old terminal building since February 19th. It arrived on a ferry flight from Los Angeles, and the tag says “Miller —crew member.” PAA has two co-pilots named Miller, but it doesn’t belong to either of them. Anybody know anybody named Miller who’s missing a bag ?