Pan American clipper, Vol. 19, No. 8, November 1960

              Volume 19

November 1960

No. 8

GOODBYE, TIME CLOCK! That’s the story told by the broad smile of Henry Goodfellow, SEA mechanic, and the watch he’s holding. Hank acquired the watch plus a hatful of other gifts from fellow-employees who gathered to bid him adieu on his retirement day.

Revamp Sales Staff For Jet-Age Impart
E ffective D ecem ber 1, P a n A m ’s sales organization is being stream lined to achieve m axim um sales re su lts by th e in­ te g ra tio n of S ystem Sales and U. S. Sales. A t th e sam e tim e, OD and LAD Space Control is being centralized under a single System Reservations Control de­ partm ent to provide uniform sales/control procedures and fa ­ cilitate preparation for the eventual introduction of elec­ tronic reservations equipment. In announcing these changes, A record total of more than Willis C. Lipscomb, Vice Presi­ six thousand tons of cargo was dent, Traffic/Sales, said, “the carried by Pan American A ir­ achievement of optimum results in the fast-moving jet era will ways across the A tlantic during demand maximum efficiency and the first nine months of 1960. Pan American’s transatlantic productivity by each and every cargo between January 1 and employee in the Company’s September 30 this year exceeded Traffic/Sales departm ent.” by 45.9 per cent the volume car­ M ajor features of the new ried during the same period in table of organization include 1959. appointment of John W. G. For the January-to-Septem ber Ogilvie as D irector-Training; months of this year, our West­ Henry W. Beardsley as U. S. bound cargo totaled 6,631,460 Sales Manager, and the creation pounds and Eastbound Cargo of a new post of Director-Cargo reached 6,212,140 pounds. Sales. Our transatlantic cargo totals No appointment has yet been in nine months of this year have made to fill this position, and equalled those for the entire 12 in the meantime, James Mont­ months of 1959, with the peak gom ery, D ire c to r-P a s s e n g e r year-end months of 1960 still to Sales, will direct Cargo Sales in come. addition to his other duties. On November 10 we inaugu­ He will be assisted by a staff rated the first direct all-cargo including H arry P. Heim, Man­ service linking the markets of ager-A gency S a le s; G eorge the United States with the Mid­ S tre h lk e , M a n a g e r-In te rlin e dle E ast’s. Sales; Claude Fusco, ManagerThree all-cargo DC-7F flights Tour Sales; Phil Siefert, Man­ a week from New York term i­ ager-Special Sales; George Po- nate in Beirut, Lebanon, under liti, M a n a g e r-R e se rv a tio n s/ the new schedule which in­ creases Pan American’s all(Continued on page 4)

A tlantic Cargo Record Broken By 46% Jump

Midway between the asphalt of Manhattan’s streets and the solid rock of the island’s core, work is now going on night and day on the understructure of the Pan Am Building, the largest office building in the world. Pan American and Grand Central Terminal Building, Inc., have reached agreement for a long-term lease by Pan Am of 613,000 square feet of space in the 59-story skyscraper which is being built over the platform s and railroad tracks of Grand Central Terminal. The building is expected to be completed late in 1962 and the P a n A m erican in au g u ra te s transpacific Econom y Service targ et date for Pan Am occu­ on D ecem ber 1 a t fa re s approxim ately 14 p er cent below pancy is the Spring of 1963. Pan p rese n t to u rist-class levels. Am will lease the equivalent of T he new ju s t fa re from W est C oast cities to Tokyo is 15 stories in the $100,000,000 $435 compared to the previous octagonal-shaped structure, in­ tourist-class fare of $508, with rating system. Our plan calls cluding 10,000 square feet on p ro p o rtio n a te re d u c tio n s to for a rate structure sim ilar to the first floor to house our m ajor th a t now in effect for tra n s­ New York Sales Office. other Pacific points. The tra n s p a c ific Econom y pacific cargo. President Trippe has an­ Pan American also will inau­ nounced th a t the new building fare, which is subject to ap­ proval of the Governments con­ gurate a family plan fare to will become Pan Am’s Home cerned, was agreed upon by the Bermuda providing a one third Office. Pan Am facilities cur­ International Air Transport As­ discount on Tuesdays, Wednes­ rently located in the Long Island sociation as a result of our days and Thursdays for each City Building, the Chrysler long-standing efforts to obtain a additional member of a family Building, and 80 E ast 42 Street low cost fare across the Pacific group. (Continued on page 2) and on all the world’s m ajor air routes. We also plan to inaugurate Economy service about January 1st on the long-haul routes be­ tween N orth and South America a t fares approximately one third less than present touristclass fares. The Pan Am Economy fares are subject to Government ap­ proval and to agreement by other carriers serving the area on conditions of service. pS W rtS V ! t m Our proposed Economy South American service is in keeping pH W W JS#: with our policy of extending m'mmnmm MpMpiP#': the two-class concept of air transportation throughout the ■ IH world. 'i ipflpi Following are typical exam­ ples of the proposed Pan Am Economy roundtrip jet f a r e s : New Present Pan Am Tourist Economy : 1r • 'f New YorkBuenos Aires $934.00 $599.00 New YorkItfilH Itp lfS H K n Rio de Janeiro $790.00 $594.00 New YorkP'fwoswirss $919.00 $599.00 Montevideo Pan American also will con­ tinue to press fo r a complete f '' rm '! ' u*iu *.J r,; tH ,j. i revision of transatlantic cargo §!«sr isihi 'StjnfcnSi m im M i rates at the special IATA meet­ ing scheduled for Paris on Jan u ­ ary 23. B r a m w i.:'- i ' Pan American, with the sup­ port of other American-flag carriers, has strongly advocated drastic reductions in tran satlan ­ tic cargo rates by means of a structure based' on weight classifications rath er than the present complicated commodity

Our New Office: W orlds Largest
Fares Cut in Pacific, Latin America Next

cargo services from New York to 10 a week. The Beirut flights leave Idlewild at 4 a.m. on Tues­ day, Thursday, and Saturday. In addition, Pan Am’s sched-

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•• » « - ----------- *------- W! PAN AM BUILDING, to be our new Home Office, towers 59 stories above busy midtown Manhattan in artist’s ren­ dering. Pan Am has leased equivalent of 15 stories in the skyscraper, construction of which is now going on around the clock.

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