Clipper, Vol. 3, No. 58, January 15, 1947

              12TH YEAR PACIFIC-ALASKA DIVISION
Pan American World Airways
PACIFIC-ALASKA DIVISION
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15TH YEAR PAA HAS FLOWN IN ALASKA
Vol. 3, No. 58	PUBLISHED BY THE EMPLOYES OF PAN AMERICAN WORLD AIRWAYS	January 15, 1947
Pan American Now Spearheading Drive to Cut Red Tape for International Air Travellers
The Red Tape Snippers at Work
Pan American World Airways System’s committee on standardization or documents and uniformity of procedure, or the international red tape snippers, working out details of IATA and PICAO recommendations for smoothing international air passenger and cargo transport. Left to right: Mauricio Soares, special representative, Panair do Brasil; John O’Neal, coordinator, Latin-American Division; H. H. Galbraith, chairman, system documentation coordinators; Mr. Jack P. Peak, coordinator, Pacific-AIaska Division; and W. B. Tobey, coordinator, Atlantic
Division.
New Committee Has Recently Concluded Washington Meeting
Jack Peak is Pacific-AIaska Representative
Pan American World Airways is spear heading a world-wide campaign for the dissolution of that giant web of international red tape which obstructs the flexible operation of scheduled international air transport services.
The red tape takes the form of restrictions of a dubious character covering customs, immigration, public health, passports and other entry requirements which have prevented the fullest utilization of the speed and efficiency of today’s international air carrier.
Indicative of the keen public interest in this subject are the thousands of words which have been written in the American press since the war’s conclusion criticizing these unnecessary borderline barriers. Recently a series of articles by Marshall McNeil was printed in the Scripps-Howard newspapers on red tape. An interview of Assistant Secretary of State Will Clayton, included in the series, gave promise of State Department support for measures to simplify this country’s import and immigration laws and regulations.
Leadership, on the part of this nation, ultimately will be followed by other member governments to the international civil aviation organization.
Anticipating action at the government level, Pan American has set out to put its own house in order. It is adopting for the entire Pan American system uniform documents and forms required for the clearance of air passengers, mail and cargoes between nations.
Pan American’s efforts are being directed through a hardworking committee of experts which recently concluded meetings in Washington on the first phase of a red tape snipping program.
The committee, known as the System Aircraft Documentation Coordinating Com-mitte, has completed the drafting of a maximum of eight declaration and clear-
ance manifests and forms, which are to be adopted for use by all the divisions of the PAA system. These documents comply fully with the requirements set forth in the recommendations of the International Air Transport Association and the Provisional International Civil Aviation Organization.
The program adopted by this group moves upward in the system to division heads for final approval. Meanwhile another PAA group headed by V. E. Chenea, of New York, negotiates directly with representatives of other airlines on simplification of government forms and regulations. ■
The coordinating committee of red tape
snippers is composed of H. H. Galbraith, representing PAA system, chairman; John O’Neal, Latin-American Division; Jack P. Peak, Pacific-AIaska Division, W. B. Tobey, Atlantic Division, and Mauricio Soares, special representative of Panair do Brasl. (See picture).
The work of these men has resulted in elimination of several forms, designing of the basic forms mentioned earlier and seventeen specific recommendations for action deemed essential to the ultimate simplification and standardization of aircraft documents.
This spring the committee will meet again to work out uniform practices and procedures for system adoption.