Pan American clipper, Vol. 20, No. 1, "Holiday Issue", 1961

              Volume 20

Holiday Issue, 1961

No. 1

RECORD HEIGHTS are claimed by the Ankara station, which believes it has the tallest and shortest men in the Division. ATS Sid Besheer at six feet, eight inches (tall, that is — he hasn’t divulged his waist measurement) towers above Cargo Rep. Huseyin Inonu, who says he’s an even five feet tall. Any challengers? How about Honolulu Airport Manager Dick Conley?

After a record-breaking proving flight had paved the way, Pan American inaugurated Jet Clipper service to Africa on January third when a DC-8C Jet Clipper commanded by Cap­ tain George Blackford departed IDL enroute to Johannesburg with stops at Dakar, Senegal; Roberts Field, Monrovia; Accra, Ghana; and Leopoldville, Congo. Jet Clippers following this route will depart IDL every Tuesday at 5:30 P.M. Schedule time to Johannesburg is 20 hours and 35 minutes. A second weekly Jet Clipper flight will leave IDL at 5:30 P.M. Satur­ days, stopping at Santa Maria, Lisbon, Dakar, Roberts Field The Overseas Division is taking aim at a $163,645,000 and terminating at Accra. sales target for 1961 — its share in the total Pan Am sales The replacement of DC-7C's effort which is expected to reach half a billion dollars during with jet equipment reduces the the next 12 months. flying time between New York The total quota for passenger signed these sector passenger and Johannesburg from 33 for Atlantic, $106,808,sales is $443,150,000, a gain of quotas: 000, up 21.2 per cent over 1960 hours and 50 minutes to 20 15.6 per cent over 1960 sales sales; Pacific, $68,778,000, hours and 35 minutes and the and the total cargo quota is up 15.6 for per cent over 1960 sales; New York-Accra flight time $53,353,000, a 19.3 per cent in­ for Alaska, $2,457,000, up 11.8 from 29 hours and 5 minutes to crease over 1960 sales. per cent over 1960; for LAD, 19 hours and 15 minutes. For 1960, System sales totaled $60,975,000, up 6.9 per cent. Among the passengers on the an impressive $427,933,000 — an The Atlantic sector has a car­ inaugural flight were Dag Hamincrease of 13.9 per cent over go quota of $12,956,000, up 23.5 marskjold, Secretary General of 1959 and a net gain of $52,142,cent over 1960 sales; Pacific the United Nations, and Fran­ 000. Passenger sales were $383,- per /Alaska -a quota of $6,313,- cis H. Russell, United States 195,000, a 14.4 per cent gain 000 up has per cent; LAD’s Ambassador to Ghana and Mrs. over 1959, and cargo sales were quota is 19.7 $5,284,000, up 14.7 per Russell. $44,738,000, an increase of 9.8 The DC-8C proving flight (Continued on page 10) per cent over 1959. from Johannesburg to Idlewild, For passenger sales, the At­ commanded by Chief Pilot Capt. lantic sector of the Overseas Sam Miller, completed the trip Division has a 1961 quota of P a y D ividend in 17 hours and 31 minutes air $92,424,000, a 19.7 per cent in­ At a meeting on January time and flew non-stop from crease, the Pacific/Alaska sec­ 10, 1961, Directors of Pan Dakar to Idlewild in eight hours tor has a quota of $51,952,000, American World Airways, and 25 minutes. an increase of*12 per cent; LAD Inc. declared a dividend of The previous speed mark be­ has a quota of $59,756,000, a 20 cents per share payable tween New York and Dakar, set 13.2 per cent increase; and U.S. February 10, 1961 to stock­ by a Pan Am DC-7C on July 22, and Canada have a quota of holders of record at the close 1960, was 13 hours, 17 minutes. $239,018,000, a 15.6 per cent of business on January 20, boost. 1961. LAD’s quota is broken down This is the sixty-fifth divi­ with LAD Stations accountable dend paid by Pan American. for $52,741,000 and affiliates Four dividends of 20 cents a given a quota of $7,015,000. share each were paid in 1960. U.S./Canada offices were as­

Jets Cut 13 Hrs. Off African Run

O'Seas Division Aims At $164 Million Sales

Rent Offices In New Y o rk

B e e f B o u r g u ig n o n !

Economy Flights Serve Piping Hot M eals
Economy passengers on transatlantic and Polar flights are now enjoying hot luncheons and dinners. An entire array of entrees has been created to make Pan Am’s new hot meals the most attractive Economy offering in Atlantic service. Many new menus will be served in the Pacific sector where hot meals have always been the rule for tourist passengers. The Oriental character of some of these meals will have greater appeal to local passengers and special savor and interest for the tourist. The new full Economy luncheon or dinner includes hot soup, vegetables or salad, and desert, besides the hot-dish entree. Included in the new items created by the Overseas Division, in, keeping with the terms of the IATA regulations, effective December I, are such items as Veal a l’Ancienne, a rich oldfashioned veal fricasse; Beef Bourguignon, beef in wine sauce; Seafood Nantus, a variety of sea foods in a bechamel cream sauce; Scallops Poutette, scallops in a white wine sauce; Breast of Chicken Bercy; Beef a la Mode, a French pot-roast; and Trout Meuniere, sauteed in lemon parsley butter. On Fridays and fast days, seafood dishes will be carried as NEW HOT ECONOMY meals are sampled by Vice President well as the major entree planned for the meal. The menus will be Traffic & Sales Willis G. Lipscomb (left) and Executive Vice rotated so that the same dish is not repeated on flights on which President Harold E. Gray from tray held by Division Service more than one meal is served. Manager Lloyd Wilson.

Pan American has acquired additional office space at two New York City locations and is completing a series of moves which will permit expansion of the General Accounting Office and New York DSO Reserva­ tions operations at Long Island City. The General Accounting office is acquiring additional room at LIC by shifting three of its units to new quarters at 4325 Hunter St. The new quarters are near the LIC building and permit efficient interchange of mail between the two locations. Assigned to 4325 Hunter St. are GAO’s Cargo and Mail, In­ ternal Audit, and Flight and Traffic Statistics units. The other new address is 260 Park Avenue South, where the entire IHC unit formerly at LIC and some System Traffic/Sales units are occupying 7,000 square feet of usable floor space. In other moves, the entire Technical Assistance Program unit, formerly at LIC, has moved (Continued on page 9)