Pan American clipper, Vol. 22, No. 2, March 1963

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March-April, 1963

Record Flights Set for Peak Summer Season
PACIFIC: A major increase in Jet Clipper service between the West Coast and Honolulu and an increase of two round-trips per week be­ tween Honolulu and Tokyo are the main
fe a tu re s of o ur trans-P acific sum m er schedules. D uring the peak sum m er sea­ son, we’ll be o p eratin g 23 round trip s per week betw een Los A ngeles and Honolulu, 17 week­ ly freq u en cies betw een San F ran cisco and Honolulu, daily service betw een S eattle and Honolulu, and P o rtlan d /H o n o lulu service five tim es weekly. S ta rtin g A pril 1, we’ll add two frequencies p er week to our p re se n t daily service betw een Honolulu and Tokyo. F lig h t 847 will o rig in ate a t Honolulu on T uesdays and T h ursdays and term in ate a t TYO. F lig h t 848 will o rig in ate in TYO on W ednesdays and F rid ay s, and term in ate a t HNL. O ur o th er Pacific services in ­ clude J e t C lippers th ree tim es weekly to Sydney, once via Pago Pago, tw ice via N andi. O u r G reat Circle flights be­ tw een Los Angeles, San F ra n ­ cisco and Tokyo operate th ree tim es weekly. J e t Clippers operate th ree f r e ­ quencies a week on our route from Honolulu to Singapore. All of these flights make interm e­ diate stops a t Guam and Saigon, two serve M anila, and one stops
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A TLA N TIC: Every 24 minutes this summer, a transat­ lantic Pan Am Clipper will be taking off or landing at one of 22 cities in Europe and 15 U.S. gateway cities linked by the largest

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ROGER GROSJEAN, guid­ ing genius behind our IDL frozen food production cen­ ter since 1957, shares with Clipper readers the secrets of his culinary artistry in “Chez Roger” menu, a Clip­ per feature making its debut on page 9 of this issue. Chef Grosjean has worked at the world’s leading restaurants, including Max­ im’s, during his three dec­ ades of experience in pre­ paring gourmet delights.

com m ercial a irlift of scheduled tra n sa tla n tic flights in history. Our schedule fo r the sum m er season calls fo r 214 tra n s a t­ A Clipper menu proved tasti­ lantic crossings p er week, pro­ ly tempting to a customs in­ viding over 450,000 seats during spector at Idlewild who queried the peak sum m er season. 210 of a Pan Am pax on his arrival these scheduled crossings will be operated w ith J e t Clippers. from Paris. From Idlew ild, we’ll be oper­ The inspector, impressed by the attractive menu and notic­ atin g th ree nonstop flights to ing that it was not listed on the London every day, two daily passenger’s customs declaration, nonstops to P aris and daily non­ wanted to know how much the stop service to F ra n k fu rt, Am­ traveler had paid for the “print” sterdam , Shannon and Rome, in Europe. When it was pointed plus five weekly nonstop flights out that the “print” was the to Lisbon and one a week to menu from the flight, the in­ Oslo. In addition, we’ll offer two spector humbly “ate crow” ac­ cording to the happy Clipper daily d irect services from Idlewild to F ra n k fu rt and 18 weekly pax. to Rome in addition to our non­ stop flights to these cities. S tu t t g a r t, C o p en h ag e n an d B russels will also be served daily by d irect J e t Clipper flights from New York. M unich will be served by nine d irect flights from IDL p er week. O ther d irect services from New P an A m erican has been York include th re e flights week­ chosen by the U.S. F ederal ly to H am burg, fo u r weekly to A viation Agency to take p a rt in D usseldorf, th ree to Vienna, a m aintenance evaluation pro­ fo u r a week to B arcelona and gram w hich eventually may Nice, and once weekly direct save the airlin e in d u stry untold flig h ts to S to c k h o lm a n d thousands of dollars in m ain­ H elsinki. From Dulles In tern atio n al tenance costs. The program , if adopted, A irport, w hich serves W ashing­ would place in our own hands ton, D.C., we’ll be operating the responsibility fo r settin g fo u r flights a week to London tim e lim its betw een overhauls and th ree flights to P aris. These fo r system s and com ponents of flights all stop a t P hiladelphia, our a irc ra ft, subject to review providing the City of B rotherly a fte r the fa c t by th e FAA. A t Love w ith a daily nonstop present, the FAA m ust approve tra n sa tla n tic service. B altim ore will be the point of in advance all changes in over­ origin of th ree weekly flights to haul tim e lim its. F o r th e in itial study, a w ork­ P aris. The B altim ore flights will ing com m ittee led by R alph also serve Boston. Daily flight Dobbins, Chief-Staff E ngineer­ 56, o rig in atin g in D etroit, will ing, has selected five system s of also stop a t Boston, giving Bos­ our DC8 a irc ra ft fo r evaluation. tonians daily nonstop flights to Bill Dade, Supt. of Service London and th ree weekly to A nalysis, studied DC8 flight en­ P aris. Chicago will have a daily non­ gin eer’s reports accum ulated over the p ast two years to de­ stop flight to London, continu­ term ine the actual operating ing on to F ra n k fu rt. The Chi­ perform ance of each system . cago flight originates in H ous­ This led to settin g up of p er­ ton and stops a t D allas enroute form ance a le rt values fo r each to and from Chicago, thro u g h system — th a t is, the point a t our interchange w ith B raniff w hich our experience indicates In tern atio n al Airw ays. Daily service between the th a t special corrective action should be taken in o rder to W est Coast and London will be operated d uring the peak sea­ m aintain system reliability. The DC8 airfo il anti-ice sys- son. F lig h t 120 will operate fo u r

Humble Pie"

FIRST BOEING 707-321C Cargo Jet, shown making its maiden flight in top photo, has largest loading door on any commercial aircraft (bottom photo). Scheduled all-cargo service with the new aircraft is expected to begin in the latter half of June. One of our three 707-321C’s will be assigned to Atlantic all-cargo service, another to all-cargo service across the Pacific. The first 321C will be delivered in late April in all-passenger configuration. It will be used as a passenger aircraft during the summer season, then be assigned to Atlantic all-cargo service. All three 321C’s — N765PA, N766PA, and N767PA — can readily be converted from all-cargo to all-passenger configuration, and viceversa, or can be operated as part passenger-part cargo aircraft.

PAA Testing FAA Plan for Maintenance

6 2 Profits Rise By 62%
Pan American World Airways has issued a preliminary report for 1962 net income of $14,500,000 or $2.16 per share, up 62.6 per cent from $8,900,000 reported in 1961. Total reve­ nues were $501,468,000, the first time in the Company’s
history th a t revenues have ex­ ceeded $500,000,000. A ccruals to th e reserve fo r self-insurance in 1962 proved a t year-end to be in excess of re ­ quirem ents, and, to th e extent not used, were resto red to earnings. Revenue ton-m iles cost was 44.1 cents com pared to 49.1 cents in 1961. H igh daily u tili­ zation of je t equipm ent was re ­ sponsible fo r the decrease in o peratin g costs. The com pany’s passen g er revenue fo r 1962 was $365,100,000, a 9.4 p e r cent increase over the $333,800,000 reported last year. F re ig h t revenues were $49,700,000, up 12.1 p er cent from 1961’s $44,400,000. P an A m erican flew 110,831,000 revenue m iles in 1962, an increase of 9.2 p er cent over 1961. T otal revenue ton-m iles were 1,042,200,000, an increase of 18 p er cent over 1961. We operated 7.2 billion p assen g er miles or 16.1 per cent more th an the previous year. P an A m erican flew approxi­ m ately 195,000,000 cargo tonmiles in 1962, a gain of 22.0 p er cent over 1961. P assen g ers c a r­ ried increased 18.4 p er cent.

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KAREN SYENDSEN, IDLbased Stewardess, has been selected “Viking Queen 1963” by the NorwegianAmerican Womens’ Com­ mittee and is currently touring Norway as official representative of the Norgian-American community. Miss Svendsen was born in Minneapolis in 1939. She speaks Norwegian fluently, and has been with Pan Am since June, 1962.