Pan American clipper, Vol. 28, No. 21, October 15, 1968

              Halaby: Flight Lid i s ! Desperate Substitute'
WASHINGTON, D.C.— Making rules instead of in­ creasing airport and airways capacities “are really desper­ ate substitutes,” Pan Am President Najeeb Halaby tes­ tified before the Federal Avia­ tion Administration. Mr. Halaby, a former FAA administrator, explained that he was testifying at the final session on Oct. 3 of the FAA hearings into the agency’s proposals to place hourly flight limits at five airports “to put some emphasis on the positive side of this problem.” “A rule in place of a run­ way, a rule in place of an ILS, a rule in place of enroute air­ way capacity are really des­ perate substitutes,” he contin­ ued. “We would like to see the government and the (FAA) place a great deal more em­ phasis on creating new capaci­ ties than upon regulating a demand.” Alleviating the present con­ gestion problems can be done in two ways, Mr. Halaby said, “restrict demand or increase capacity . . . I am deeply con­ cerned that if you fix or freeze the number of air movements permitted at any airport, that will become a magic figure . . . a number that budgeteers will consider as adequate.” The FAA proposals single out JFK, LaGuardia and New­ ark airports in the metropoli­ tan New York area; National Airport here; and O’Hare International Airport at Chi­ cago. Hourly flight limits pro­ posed were 80 at JFK, 60 at LaGuardia, Newark and Na­ tional, and 135 an hour at O’Hare. Mr. Halaby described the New York area as requiring action first. That, he said, is “where the capacity lags farthest behind the demand.” Commenting on the situa­ tion this summer—“the crisis of air traffic, it was usually called,” he said—Mr. Halaby predicted that it was “what I’d call a live simulation of the situation” in 1970, under what would then be considered normal circumstances unless the airways “are very rapidly improved and expanded.” The very success of aviation in expanding the economy of the New York metropolitan area helped bring about the present congested situation, he noted. He urged that the metropolitan area be con­ sidered as an area, within which there are not only the jetports but the Westchester, Morristown, Teterboro, . Re­ public and MacArthur fields that can be employer to help disperse the aircraft presently concentrating on just a few of the area’s aviation facili­ ties. “Demand is the thing,” Mr. Haliby said. “Whether it’s for a family of three taking off from Westchester in a light twin, a stretch jet with 250 passengers, a businessman fly­ ing his Falcon or 737—whether it’s-an individual or a group or an organization—this is the public for which you have the responsibility to, provide the capacity and the facilities, and no retreat into regulation will solve the problem.” Mr. Halaby recommended that the FAA “go step by (Continued on Page 3)

The 747 rolls out. See Page 4.

Volume 28

October 15, 1968

No. 21

Pan Am Asks CAB to Increase Service in Polynesia, Micronesia
By Dick Piperno WASHINGTON, D.C.—Pan Am should be granted addi­ tional authority in Polynesia and Micronesia because its proposed services are the most comprehensive and its current routes the best suited to speed the development of both re­ gions, the airline said here. “Pan Am has served both areas for many years and can provide by far the most public benefit to both,” The airline said in its brief to the Civil Aeronautics Board Examiner conducting the Pacific Islands Local Service Case. Focusing first on the South

Pan Am Flies Million in Aug.
More than one million pas­ sengers were flown by Pan Am in scheduled service dur­ ing August. It was the first time that Pan Am topped the millionpassenger mark for a single month in its 41-year history. Company officials believe it is the first time any inter­ national carrier has carried over a million passengers in one month on overseas routes. The total number of reve­ nue passengers carried by Pan Am in August was 1,004,624, of which 494,748 passen­ gers were on Atlantic routes, 158,613 on Pacific routes, and 351,263 on Latin American routes.

Pacific points involved in the proceeding, Pan Am said that its proposed service would link these islands with both coasts of the continental United States and connect them with Pan Am’s worldwide route system. Among the three levels of service proposed by Pan Am for 1969 would be nonstop flights from Honolulu to Aus­ tralia and New Zealand, through flights from the U. S. Mainland .to Australia via Pago Pago, Nandi and Nou­ mea and another service cen­ tered at Pago Pago for trans­ portation to nearby islands.

The latter would be oper­ ated initially with F-27 air­ craft “to provide service to intermediate islands that do not have adequate facilities for larger equipment or for great numbers of tourists.” Another feature of the Pan Am plan is that helicopters would ultimately be used to provide city-center to citycenter service between Pago Pago and Apia (Western Samoa) as well as between other points in the Samoan islands lacking fixed-wing air­ craft facilities. Pan Am said that it is the (Continued on Page 4)

W ill There Be Room at the Top for You?
CLIPPER—What year did you come to Pan Am? RENNELL—I joined Pan Am Jan. 1, 1948. After returning from 5 years in the Pacific with the U.S. Navy, during World War II, I’d returned to my former employer, the Grace Steamship Company, and had been back with them for roughly two years when I heard word that Pan Am was becoming very much involved in air freight. Freight traffic was my specialty with the Grace Line and, since I could see the very, very exciting horizons in this field, I sought Rennell, vice-president of out an opportunity to join Pan Sales, North America, for Am in the air freight or air his candid opinion concern­ cargo end of the business. Fortunately, I was accepted. ing the chances of career My first job had the title of advancement at Pan Am. superintendent of Cargo Agen­ Mr. Rennell spoke frankly— cies. What that meant, basi­ so frankly that he admitted cally, was the administrations he almost quit the airline of a program of locating and contracting with cargo sales more than once. agents to represent Pan Am throughout the U.S. and, in effect, be our cargo receiving stations not only at the gate­ way cities but in the interior. Unlike many of my cohorts, all of my 20 years with Pan Am have been in New York City, obviously with a great deal of overseas travel. C LIPPER—W hat was your impression of Pan Am when you first came here? RENNELL—It was quite dif­ ferent than the young man gets coming in today. I felt that I was in a relatively small family. Everybody knew everybody else. You’d go off on a trip and the chances were that you’d know half the peo­ ple in the cabin and up front. And at the airports and in the district sales offices. I felt I was with a young family that was on the threshhold of some very exciting years. That is exactly as it was. When you think of what’s happened in the last 20 years in this company and in this industry, we’ve gotten out of diapers and into very, very long pants. CLIPPER—Is there still room for advancement for young men? RENNELL—Very much so. The opportunities for advance­ ment and promotion are even greater today than they were then. For example, let’s take Eastern Europe. Until this recent unpleas­ antness in Czechoslovakia it was very apparent that the doors were being opened. Trade was starting, people were moving back and forth to a much greater extent. As you know, Pan Am is the au­ thorized U.S. carrier to East­ ern Europe. I think that we will see a return to the more open-door philosophy and pol­ icy that we were seeing before and that Pan Am, one of these days, is going to be very big in Eastern Europe. We already have service to Prague and Moscow and a sales office in Warsaw. All the other capitals are fair game and we’ll have to open offices there. We’ll have to set up organizations. This is just one piece of what I think is a whole new area for growth in Pan Am’s development. CLIPPER—Is a person locked into the city in which he is hired or can he go to another part of the world if he so desires? RENNELL—He definitely is not locked in. Just off the top of my head, I can think of at least a dozen young men in the last 18 months who came out of the Sales representative category and were promoted either to another place within (Continued on Page 9)