Pan American clipper, Vol. 25, No. 24, December 1, 1966

              Announce Lowest Fares Over Atlantic
| Pan American will intro­ duce the lowest air fares ever offered across the Atlantic, 'the Pacific and to South tAmerica, Willis G. Lipscomb, Senior. Vice President-Traffic land Sales has announced. | The new fares will apply ito roundtrip travel for groups I of 10 persons or more travel­ ling on inclusive tours. Fares from New York to London I will be $230, to Paris $242, iFrankfurt $256, Rome $285 | and Beirut $376 for 14- to 121-day tours. To South America and on the Pacific the fares will be good for tours as long as 28 days. Roundtrip inclusive tour fares San FranciscoTokyo and New York-Buenos Aires will both be $450. In a departure from all previous promotional fares these new fares will be good for travel every day of the week, every week of the year and members of the groups of 10 need not belong to any organization. The fares are subject to approval by appro­ priate* government involved. Presently the Economy Class fare is the lowest fare for travel any day of the year. From New York the basic economy fare to Lon­ don is $399, the summer eco­ nomy fare $484.50; to Paris $440.80 basic and $526.30 in summer; Frankfurt $478.80 and $564.30; Rome $544.40 and $629.90 and Beirut $798 and $883.50. Comparable economy fare on the New York-Buenos Aires flight is $630. San Fran­ cisco-Tokyo is $703 basic and $760 in peak winter months. In letters to the other 17 transatlantic airline members of the International Air Transport Association, Pan Am had proposed that all agree to adopt the new trans­ atlantic inclusive fares be­ ginning April 1 next year, when the current Atlantic fare agreement will expire. Shortly after sending its letters Pan Am learned that a government in effect has withdrawn its approval of the existing fare agreement thus creating an “open rate” situ­ ation oi^ the Atlantic. Conse­ quently Pan Am will intro­ duce the new fares beginning January 1 for the Atlantic, South America and the Pa­ cific. Pan Am will urge IATA to incorporate these “inclusive tour” fares in its next fare agreement. '' Inclusive tour fares are of(Continued on Page 5)

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G ray Suggests Moves To Aid Payments Balance
WASHINGTON D C . — A five-point program which would remove m any restrictions imposed upon visitors to th e United S tates and contribute a total of about $4.7 M lion to our balance of paym ents over th e next ten years, was advocated 0f a p°an No. 24 American. Speaking before the Interna­ tional Aviation Club, Mr. Gray urged removal of government barriers, specifically elimination of the visa requirements for visitors from friendly European countries and a re-examination of our position requiring vig­ orous baggage examination by customs agents. Mr. Gray also called for a .reduction of the language bar­ rier, a strong governmentfinanced overseas promotional program, a reduction of the highcost barrier and creation of^a “good host” attitude within the United States. Mr. Gray said that if a growth rate of 20 per cent annually could be realized, our earnings from European tourists could exceed a billion dollars a year by 1975. Between 1965 and 1975 the United States would earn from Europe a cumulative total of $4.7 billion. He noted that the removal of government barriers to tourism would bring about a substantial increase in the flow of travel from Europe to America. He said that one way to help protect our gold reserve is to bring the outflow and inflow of tourists into better balance, thereby easing our critical balance of payments deficit. He said, “The time has come (Continued on Page 11)

Volume 25

December 1, 1966

pacific Route Proposal presented to the CAB
Pan American on November 17 made public its plan for improving and expanding air service between th e United |States and the fast-grow ing m arkets of th e Pacific and the lOrient. The plan disclosed in New York and in Washington, D.C., is detailed in Pan Am’s direct exhibits to the Civil Aeronau­ tics Board, the U.S. Government agency conducting the TransIpacific Route- Investigation. Pan Am is seeking government ^authority to operate flights from ^five major East Coast and Mid| west cities to the Pacific and the j Far East, including direct air service to the Orient over the WASHINGTON, D.C. — The l short Great Circle Route to Tokyo and beyond, to points best United States and the Soviet Union on November 4 signed a | reached by Tokyo. If its application is approved, Civil Air Transport Agreement | Pan Am would provide a number providing for reciprocal air | of major American cities with services between New York and direct access to and from Hawaii, Moscow by Pan American and I Oceania, the Central and South the Soviet airline, Aeroflot. The Agreement was signed Pacific, Australasia and the Far on behalf of the United States | East via the Mid-Pacific. Proposed initial schedules by Llewellyn E. Thompson, p show at least 28^ different rout- Acting Deputy Under Secretary ings in Pan Am’s exhibits pack- of State for Political Affairs, l age. Service will be operated with and for the Soviet Union by f the 747 Superjet, which Pan Am Yevgeniy F. Loginov, Minister | was the first airline to order, of Civil Aviation of the U.S.S.R. The signing ceremonies at I as well as with long range 707 the Department of State were j jets. The U. S i cities named in the attended by Charles S. Murphy, i : airline’s proposals are New York, Chairman of the Civil Aero­ h Boston, Washington, D. C., Balti- nautics Board, Charles O. Cary, I more, Philadelphia, Chicago, De- Assistant Administrator for In­ I troit, San Diego, San Francisco, ternational Aviation Affairs of I Los Angeles, Seattle, Portland, the Federal Aviation Agency, I Fairbanks (Alaska,) Honolulu and Alan S. Boyd, Under Secre­ tary of Commerce for Trans­ I and Hilo (both Hawaii.) Other highlights of the Pan portation who has since been I Am Pacific plan include the first designated by President Johnson I non-stop flights to Honolulu from as Secretary of Transportation I New York and Chicago; air serv­ and Anatoliy F. Dobyrnin, ice to a number of new points Ambassador of the U.S.S.R. Technical teams from Aero­ abroad, including Osaka, Taipei, Seoul, Kuala Lumpur and Bali, flot and Pan Am will meet in and substantial reductions in Moscow the second week of passenger fares and cargo rates. January to negotiate an oper­ Fares would be reduced 20 to ating agreement between the ■ 30 per cent and cargo rates by two companies. If no problems develop, service should be some 35 per cent. inaugurated May 1. (Continued on Page 11)
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WEARING A SMILE AND A JANTZEN is 19-year-old Viki Livesay, daughter of Mark Livesay, Pan Am senior industrial engineer a t th e Guided Missiles Range Division. Yiki recently was local winner in the Jantzen Smile Girl Contest and was runner-up in the S tate of Florida. She’s a sophomore at-- Southern M ethodist U niversity.

■ Not a C hinam an’s Chance 9
By Don De Manche Captain H. L. Turner, in command of Pan American’s Anzac Clipper, tapped his ear­ phone with his forefinger. He was about one hour’s flying time out of Honolulu enroute from Sari Francisco, and he was trying to pickup a message being sent from the company communications facility at Mokapu. Suddenly, the static silenced and he heard the mes­ sage . . . “Pearl Harbor under aerial attack . . .” It was just after 8 o’clock Sunday morning, Dec. 7, 1941. Captain Turner diverted im­ mediately to Hilo, refueled and later made the return flight to San Francisco without incident. On Wake Island, West of the International Date Line, it was early Monday morning, De­ cember 8. Station Manager John B. Cooke, had just han­ dled the departure of the Philippine Clipper, commanded by Captain John H. Hamilton, carrying a crew of eight; 1st Officer William Moss; 2nd Officer J. A. Hrutky; 3rd Of­ ficer E. J. Leep; Flight Meteor­ ologist Walter R. Nobs; 1st Engineer T. E. Barnett; 1st Radio Officer D. V. McKay; 2nd Radio Officer T. M. Hrutky, brother of the 2nd Officer and Flight Steward C. P. Relyea. It was Bill Moss’ first flight as a Pan Am First Officer. He later made Captain and today is in charge of the company’s Inertial Navigation Special Project. Captain Hamilton still is flying the Pacific and John Cooke is Manager of Pacific Stations. A few minutes after the huge flying boat had left its base on Wake the news reached the tiny atoll that Pearl Har­ bor had been attacked and they could expect a similar aerial attack at any minute. Guam, Midway, Manila and all the other key bases of the then Trans Pacific Division of Pan Am were similarly alerted. The Naval Commander on Wake immediately radioed Captain Hamilton and sug­ gested he return to the island. Captain Hamilton wheeled the big flying boat around, dumped 3,000 pounds of gasoline to get (Continued on Page 9)