Pan American clipper, Vol. 24, No. 11, November 1, 1965

              VOLUME 24

NOVEMBER 1, 1965

No. 11

65 PAA Jets to Fly To HNL Weekly
Pan American Airways Jet Clippers linking the U. S. West Coast with the State of Hawaii will take off and land every 38 minutes during the peak of the 1965-1966 midwinter season, Willis G. Lipscomb, Senior Vice President Traffic and

Many Flights Now Showing Theatre-in-Air

Because of the intervention of various governm ents P an American h as agreed to delay the extension of its theatre-inthe-air program to certain addi­ tional in tern atio n al flights on which the inflight e n te rta in ­ ment system was scheduled to us. be offered sta rtin g O ctober 15. Pan Am erican did, however, immediately extend its movie program to flights between the United S tates and F ra n k fu rt, London, P aris, Rome and Shan­ non pending fu rth e r discussion iei in the In tern atio n al A ir T ra n s­ put, port Association. The existing $1.00 su rch arg e fo r economy class passengers using th is vei service will be made, b u t th ere be no charge fo r first class hei passengers. Inflight visual en tertain m en t continues a t no charge to all passengers irrespective of class cent on Pan A m erican’s C aliforniain| Honolulu Service as it has since itJ last May. acf In addition, inflight e n te r­ al tainm ent will be extended free tht of charge to passengers on lerf flights between Honolulu and .all Manila.

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SCN Visitor Really Slept Like a Baby
SAIGON—Hotels do fill up, and Pan Am always has done its best to help stranded pas­ sengers, but this must be a unique story. Lt. Commander Fred Sny­ der, USN, arrived in Saigon and couldn’t find a hotel room or even a spare hammock. But all was not lost. Madame Nguyen van Luong, reservations agent, contacted a friend, Dr. Nguyen Duy Tai, and temporary accommoda­ tions were arranged for the Commander in the Duy-Tan Maternity Clinic. It must have been one of the clinic’s most unusual ar­ rivals.

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Sales, announced. S ta rtin g October 31, P an Am will offer 59 flights a week in each direction between San F rancisco, Los Angeles, P o rt­ land and S eattle and H aw aii. This num ber will rise to 61 a week on Decem ber 16 during the heavy C hristm as and New Y ear’s holiday season, and to 65 a week in each direction on Ja n u a ry 10. W hen th e m id-January peak schedules become effective, P an Am will be offering more th an 18,000 seats each week in both directions. All flights will offer newlyincreased baggage w eight al­ lowances. P an Am passengers trav elin g via T h rift or Economy Class may take up to 66 pounds of baggage free. F ir s t Class passengers are allowed 77 pounds. Most flights between the U.S. m ainland and H aw aii also offer P an Am’s T heatre-in-the-A ir. P assengers may select any one of nine audio channels fe a tu r­ ing popular and classical music, show tunes, mood music, chil­ d ren ’s entertainm ent, trav el and shopping tips and advice on doing business abroad. F ull length m otion pictures are also shown in-flight on m ultiple screens located w ithin easy view of every passenger. From Los Angeles, 31 J e t Clipper flights will d epart each week fo r H aw aii, increasing to 35 on Ja n u a ry 10. San F rancisco dep artu res are scheduled 21 tim es weekly. From the Pacific N orthw est, S eattle will have daily service to H aw aii, w ith two additional departures added on F ridays and S aturdays sta rtin g Decem­ ber 16 to accommodate the in­ creasing holiday trav el volume from the Pacific N orthw est to Honolulu. Service between P o rtlan d and Honolulu will be provided five days a week through Decem ber 15, a fte r w hich it will become daily. H aw aii is one of the best trav el bargains in the world w ith je t fa res from the W est Coast less th an fo u r cents a mile on P an Am’s T h rift Class service. T h rift Class fa re s are $100 one-way from Los Angeles and San F rancisco. Economy Class fa res from all fo u r W est Coast cities are now down to only $110 one-way, and F ir s t Class fa res are $150 one-way, w ith a five per cent savings on roundtrip tickets.

HONOLULU— Thirty years ago this month Pan Am made aviation history with an air­ plane whose name became a byword of the era. You’ll discover why by turning to page 3.

All-Cargo Clipper Schedules Are Increased to Europe
Increased jet all-cargo schedules across the North Atlantic, including a new nonstop morning freighter service three times a week from New York to Frankfurt, went into effect on October 14. The stepped-up freighter flights follow a 45 per cent increase in scheduled cargo tonmiles flown by P an Am over the N orth A tlantic d uring the first nine m onths of 1965 com pared w ith the sam e period last year. The new services will bring to 22 th e num ber of weekly je t fre ig h te r flights operated by P an Am between the U nited S tates and Europe. In addition to new je t fre ig h te r services from New York, P an Am will also increase its all-cargo frequencies from Chicago, D etroit and Boston to m ajor E uropean cities. W ithin Europe, P an Am’s jet fre ig h te r services will be ex­ panded a t Glasgow, B russels, London and F ra n k fu rt. “The new services reflect the grow ing confidence of shippers in m oving th e ir goods by air fre ig h t as a m ajor p a rt of th e ir distrib u tio n program s,” H arold L. Graham , Vice P resid en t C ar­ go Sales, commented. P an Am’s new m orning je t fre ig h te r flight leaves New York on Tuesday, T hursday and S at­ urday a t 7 :30 a.m. w ith arriv al in F ra n k fu rt seven and oneh alf hours la te r (8 p.m. F ra n k ­ f u r t tim e). From Chicago, P an Am’s je t fre ig h te r service was doubled from two to fo u r weekly flights, w ith new schedules added on T hursday and S aturday to go w ith the cu rre n t W ednesday and F rid ay d epartures. F lig h ts from Chicago on W ednesday and F rid ay serve London, Am­ sterdam , F ra n k fu rt, S tu ttg a rt and M unich, while the new flights from Chicago on T h u rs­ day and S aturday serve Glas-

Actually, Kennedy Airport Is 1,100 Miles from JFK
MELBOURNE, FLORIDA— O rdinarily if you boarded a je t airlin er a t John F. Kennedy International A irport and flew a stra ig h t N ortheasterly course for about 1,100 miles the last place in the world you would expect to land is a t John F. Kennedy International A irport. I t can be done if the Kennedy airp o rt you depart from is at Melbourne, Fla., (MLB) and the Kennedy airp o rt you arriv e at is in Jam aica, N.Y. Melbourne is the closest airp o rt to Cape Kennedy, where Pan Am’s Guided Missile Range Division is located. Passengers m aking th eir first flight to Melbourne from JF K in New York always find it a b it su rp risin g th a t they are bound for the airp o rt th a t they are departing from.

Anniversary of the Jet Age Is Marked by Pan American
A decision made on October 13, 1955— a decade ago— marked the beginning of an era now known as the Je t Age. The decision: an order by P an American Airways fo r 45 U.S.-built je t tran sp o rts a t a cost of $269 million. It was the first order placed fo r American-made jets and the largest single commitment made until th a t time by any airline for new equip­ m ent in aviation history. Three years later, when Pan Am’s J e t Clipper America inaugurated U.S.-flag je t service on October 26, 1958, it was the first of a new generation of a irc ra ft to enter service. In one stroke, Je t Clipper America, and others which followed, slashed flying times between m ajor cities of the world in half. Today U.S.-built je t tran sp o rts are predom inant on the world’s airlines. By the end of 1965, the world’s airlines will have in scheduled service no less than 1,300 je t airc raft, w ith an additional 400 on order fo r fu tu re delivery. Pan Am’s je t fleet, born w ith th a t single commitment a decade ago, has itself almost doubled. Pan Am today operates 82 passenger and cargo J e t Clippers, w ith an additional 44 on order through 1967.

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