Pan American clipper, Vol. 24, No. 7, September 1, 1965

              Volume 23

DECEMBER, 1964

No. 7

'Charge it, How the Password For Clipper Pax
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Pan American Airways recently unveiled a broad new approach to credit financing of air transportation, utilizing simplified “charge it, please” techniques. Willis G. Lipscomb, Senior Vice President-Traffic and Sales said the new Pan Am credit plan is designed to bring international travel within the scope of the millions of persons who carry nationally-recognized general-purpose credit cards; will be able to charge a trip to almost any overseas destination. Travelers will be able to ob­ tain air transportation on credit at any Pan Am office or at any of 3,850 Pan Am-authorized travel agents in the United States or Canada, with a choice Berlin’s Tempelhof Airport of: welcomed its first commercial 1. Charging air transportation with an American Express credit jet transport on December 2. The plane, a three-engine Boe­ card. 2; Charging air transportation ing 727 leased by Pan Am from with a Universal Air Travel Plan the Boeing Company, was landed easily by Chief Pilot^Technical card. 3. Charging air transportation Capt. Scott Flower, using only by showing any general-purpose about half the available run­ credit card as a credit reference. way. It had flown from Frank­ 4. Charging air transportation furt in 42 minutes, compared to one hour, 20 minutes for our (Continued on page 22) DC-6B’s. Pan Am and Boeing pilots then executed a series of take­ offs and landings to demon­ strate the high performance and low sound level of the 727 to aviation and government offi­ cials. The demonstration in­ In a highly significant move cluded a take-off, flight and to establish a forceful, all-en­ landing with one of the three compassing Public Relations engines deliberately shut down. program, Chairman of the Board All operations were completely Juan T. Trippe has named Wil­ satisfactory. lis Player Vice President in As part of its continuing pro­ charge of Public Relations. gram to provide its passengers (Continued on page 7) (Continued on page 7)

Slash Fares To Latin America By 14% to 43%
A sweeping program of fare reductions to various Caribbean and South American destinations will be introduced by Pan American Airways on January 1, Willis G. Lipscomb, Senior Vice President-Traffic and Sales, announced. The new series of 17-day R rn n n m v a r>rl ‘R’it'a f Economy and First Class Caribbean Excursion fares pro­ vide reductions of 14 to 43 per cent from basic Economy fares and 21 to 41 per cent from regu­ lar First Class fares. In nearly all cases the new fares will be offered on a year-around basis without travel restrictions as to season, day of week, time of day or direction. Travelers may complete their roundtrip at any Record earnings for Pan time during the 17-day period. Also beginning January 1, American World Airways for the first nine months of the year Pan Am will offer 30-iday Ex­ were made public recently by cursion fares with reductions of Juan T. Trippe, Chairman of 10 to 16 per cent for Economy class year-around travel from the Board. Net income for the nine-month New York, Miami, or Los Ange­ period ending September 30, les to Buenos Aires, Montevi­ 1964, was $34,238,000, or $2.49 deo, Rio de Janeiro and Sao per share. This is an increase of Paulo, to complement existing* 20.7 per cent over net income of First Class Excursions on these $28,364,000, or $2.16 per share routes. for the same period last year. The fares are subject to ap­ Pan Am’s net income for the first proval of the governments in­ nine months of 1964 exceeded volved. net income for the entire year Mr. Lipscomb described Pan 1963, which was $33,568,000. Am’s new low fare levels as the Third quarter net income most significant development in totaled $23,389,000, as compared Caribbean tourism since the in­ with $18,090,000 for the same troduction of the jet transport quarter in 1963. Per share earn­ more than five years ago. He ings for the quarter were $1.67 noted that tourism to the on 13,974,576 shares, the aver­ Caribbean is growing at the age number outstanding. Per rate of more than 100,000 air share earnings for the same visitors a year and will reach period in 1963 were $1.41 per 1,750,000 in 1964. share on 12,850,138 shares, the “Pan Am’s comprehensive average number outstanding in program of fare reductions will 1963 after adjustment for the be instrumental in the doubling 1964 stock split. of the Caribbean travel market (Continued on page 22) (Continued on page 2)

Tempelhof Welcomes Its First Jet

Earnings Soar For 9 Months

“SQUATTER’S RIGHTS”, says little Paul Guzzardo, youngest son of Frank Guz­ zardo, Sales Manager/ROM. Paul has taken possession of the Eisenhower Trophy, al­ most his size, that was to be presented to the winner of the Fourth World Ama­ teur Golf Campionship.

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The Name The S a m That’s A ll
By T. Danielsson

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CHRISTMAS CAME TO KENNEDY the night mainte*nce men placed a huge holly wreath at the back of the Am terminal. Framed between two jet engines, the Rightly lit decoration adds its greeting to the rest of the holiday finery at JFK.

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What’s in a name? Plenty, if the name is that of Captain Gray. And what Pan Am sta­ tion wouldn’t respond the same as Stockholm did. It all started with a message that requested Pan Am to handle Captain Gray’s arrival at Arlanda Airport in a private plane. Everyone was alerted and all City Ticket Office and Air­ port officials were on hand to receive the President of Pan American. Well the name was the same but it just happened to be that another Captain Gray was piloting a small pri­ vate company airplane on a tour throughout Europe. But let that not suffice. Barbro Ekberg, a Sales Repre­ sentative in Stockholdm, de­ cided to spend a week-end in Rome, and was surprised to find the press awaiting her arrival. The pax list indicated a Miss Ekberg from Sweden and all concerned were ex­ pecting an Anita-type Ekberg.

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AFTER OPENING Kennedy Library Exhibit in Dublin, brankfurt and Berlin, (see back page), Mrs. Joan M. Ken­ nedy (right), wife of Senator Edward M. “Ted” Kennedy, her sister, Mrs. Candace McMurrey, and Public Relations Director David T. Parsons arrive at JFK on a Jet Clipper direct from Berlin.