Pan American clipper, Vol. 28, No. 15, July 15, 1968

              “Today, Pan Am, as the major United States international airline, flies eastbound to Moscow. This afternoon, Aeroflot, the airline of the tjnion of Soviet Socialist Republics, completed a westbound flight to New York. “These two flights culminate negotiations be­ tween the Governments of the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics and the United States which

extend back to 1958 when air services between the nations was mentioned as part of the first Soviet-American Cultural Exchange. “The new air services inaugurated today open new avenues of communications, new oppor­ tunities for international understanding, and for cultural enrichment and economic benefits through trade and tourism. In so doing, they

symbolize to the peoples of the world the peace­ ful aspirations of both nations. “Perhaps more than on any other single occa­ sion, today’s events underscore the capability— apd responsibility—of commercial air service to operate as an instrument for international peace and understanding.” Harold E. Gray, Chairman

Pan Am Begins Moscow Service Today
NEW YORK—Pan Am in­ augurates scheduled service between here and Moscow to­ day (July 15). The service will be the first operated by a United States commercial airline between the United States and the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics. Aeroflot, the Russian-flag airline also begins service on July 15 between Moscow and New York via Montreal. Service between the two countries is a result of a bi­ lateral air agreement between the U.S. and the U.S.S.R. Pan Am will fly to Moscow, via an intermediate stop at Copenhagen, with Boeing 707 jet aircraft. The 4,907-mile trip, including time at Copen­ hagen, will require 10 hours and 35 minutes from New York to Moscow and 11 hours and 45 minutes in the return direction. Pan Am’s weekly flight to Moscow will leave New York each Monday at 8:15 p.m., ar­ rive in Copenhagen the follow­ ing morning at 8:45 a.m. and in Moscow at 1:50 p.m. The return flight will leave Moscow each Tuesday at 4 p.m. arrive in Copenhagen at 4:25 p.m. and New York at 8:45 p.m. Pan Am’s Boeing 707s cruise at a speed of 560 miles per hour and will have 32 First Class seats and 97 Economy seats for the Moscow service. The round-trip Economy Class fare between New York and Moscow will be $815.50 during the peak season (May 22-August 3 for travel from New York and July 17-September 28 for travel from Mos­ cow) and $730 for the remain­ der of the year. The one way Economy Class fare will be $429.20 during the peak period and $384.20 during the rest of the year. First Class year-round fares will be $1109.50 round-trip and $583.90, one-way. In addition, Pan Am will offer a 14-21 day Economy ex­ cursion fare of $548 and a Group Inclusive Tour fare for groups of 15 or more for $407 during the peak season and $357 during the remainder of the year.

New York, Newark Airports To Have Joint ATC Facility
By James A. Arey Volume 28 July 15, 1968 No. 15

JFK Airport Observes its First Twenty Years
JFK— -New York City’s beloved and diminutive late mayor, Fiorello LaGuardia, once described by comedian Fred Allen as “the only man who could walk under a horse with his hat on,” nevertheless reached for the skies. In 1941, only two years after LaGuardia Field was opened, the mayor an­ nounced plans for a far larger airport, to be built on filled-in marshland in a section of south Queens known as Idlewild. The new airport opened 20 years ago this month and, this year alone, it will be used by about 22,500,000 passengers. In contrast with the world’s great seaports, which were centuries in the making, New York International Airport—or John F. Kennedy, as it is named today—was hard-pressed to keep up with the development of commercial aviation. In 1949, its first full year of operation, 222,620 passengers filed through the airport’s cinder-block and quonset-hut temporary build­ HONOLULU — First Class ings. By its tenth year, 1958, fares between the Pacific North­ 5,800,000 passengers used the west and Hawaii will be reduced airport, which was fast replac­ by Pan Am starting July 26, sub­ ing New York Harbor’s “luxury ject to government approval. liner row” as the major point The new First Class fare be­ of embarkation for Americans tween Portland or Seattle and going abroad. Then, in the fall Hilo or Honolulu will drop to of 1958, came the jet age. Today, $266 round-trip or $140 one-way, more than 75 percent of all air Mr. Blake said. The present First passengers between the U.S. Class fare in these markets is and Europe use Kennedy Air­ $285 round-trip or $150 one-way. port. But that’s getting ahead of Children from two through 11 the story. years may travel at half fare, Jamaica Bay Area while infants under two are By the end of 1941, 11 months charged $26 round-trip or $14 after Mayor LaGuardia an­ one-way. nounced plans for the big new Pan Am also offers Economy airport, the city had acquired Class service between the Pacific title to 1,200 acres of land on Northwest and Hawaii for $220 Jamaica Bay. Most of it needed round-trip or $110 one-way. so much landfill nobody else Between Seattle and Honolulu, wanted it anyway. Then, despite Pan Am provides two daily wartime building restrictions, round-trip flights. In addition, the city spent about $60 million Pan Am offers twice weekly ser­ over five years to fill and expand vice between Seattle and Hilo. the airport to 4,900 acres. Six Between Portland and Hono­ runways were laid down; a lulu, Pan Am offers daily service cinder-block temporary terminal with an additional flight on Wed­ was built, and two hangars were nesday and Saturday. The Wed­ constructed near it. The land nesday and Saturday flights also was so soggy 70 miles of storm serve Hilo. (Continued on Page 9)

First Class SEA-HNL Fares Cut

JFK—Visualize 33 men in one room controlling all flights operating to and from Ken­ nedy, LaGuardia and Newark airports and you’ll have a pretty good picture of the Federal Aviation Administration’s new, $7 million Common Instrument Flight Rules Room (CIFRR). Located in Hangar 11 at Kennedy Airport, this highly computerized facility soon will assume the air traffic controll responsibilities which are now handled separately by individ­ ual IFR Rooms at each of the three airports. In doing so, the CIFRR will provide more efficient air han­ dling of commercial jetliners and other aircraft and, thus, help serve to reduce takeoff and landing delays. At a special briefing for news­ men July 10, Chris Walk, man­ ager of the FAA’s New York Office, explained that the chief purpose of the CIFRR is to at­ tain better utilization of air­ space in the New York area. At present, each airport has its own chunk of airspace. Three-mile wide buffer zones separate each airport’s airspace from its neighbors’. These buffer zones are, in effect, a no-man’s land and cannot be used by air­ craft. With the new system, the buf­ fer zones will be eliminated. Walk said controllers in the CIFRR will be able to use all airspace in the Metropolitan New York area on an “as-need­ ed” basis. “We’ll be able to sep­ MIAMI—It may be a trifle premature, but five-year-old arate airplanes from airplanes Brigitte Andrew gets her stewardess wings right from the instead of airplanes from air­ top as she is pinned by Pan Am President Najeeb Halaby space,” he said. during graduation ceremonies at the Stewardess College Tower Functions Unchanged here. See story centerfold, “The President Pays a Call.” From an operations stand­ point, the functions of each air­ port’s control tower will remain unchanged. That is, control tower personnel at each location will still give aircraft takeoff and landing clearance as well as control movement of planes on the ground. However, the air traffic con­ BERLIN—For the first time in history, Pan Am carried trol of planes entering or leav­ over a quarter of a million passengers on Inter-German flights ing the immediate area of each within the period of a month. airport (generally defined as The new record was established in June when 251,386 five miles from the end of a passengers were carried between the West German citis of runway) will be handled by con­ Hamburg, Stuttgart, Frankfurt, Hanovr, Dusseldorf, Nurem­ trollers located under one roof. berg, Munich, and Cologne, and Berlin. Passengers were accom­ The CIFRR, the only one of modated on 2,742 flights, averaging about 92 passengers per its kind in the world, boasts the flight. latest in sophisticated electronic The number of passengers carried was 33.5 percent higher hardware in its semi-darkened than June 1967. Among the reasons for the increase in passen­ confines, including a pair of 9 gers was the German Athletic Festival held in Berlin and a by 12-foot screens for radar long religious holiday from June 13 to 17. (Continued on Page 3)

inter-Germ an Flights

Establish New R etort!