Pan Am clipper, Vol. 15, No. 6, July 1989

              A Hands-on Opportunity
Pan A ill's Interns
Pan Am’s
Cargo Professionals
TWO HOURS PRIOR TO FLIGHT DEPARTURE, containers and pallets loaded with cargo shipments are transferred from the cargo warehouse to the cargo compound adjacent to the ramp area by truck. Before driving off, Cargo Fleet Serviceman Vinnie Valenti double-checks his load with Cargo Fleet Service Crew Chief Sam Verni. Vinnie transferred into cargo four years ago after 18 years with the Company. Sam is a 25 year Cargo Professional.
Story on page 6
in the
Real World
by Susanne Walker
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Corporations and businesses across the country are beginning to discover the marvelous benefits of college internship programs. Without question, few such programs have been as successful as Pan Am’s because of its practical philosophy. Officially recognized for the last eight years, but in existence for almost thirty, the Pan Am intern program is one that rivals similar programs nationwide. As a result of this program, employees and interns continue to reap the rewards of innovative management and competent organization.
Ellen Shikuma, Manager of Personnel Development, said of her goals for the program, “We’re dedicated to placing students in challenging and mutually rewarding positions. This allows interns to become an integral part of our multinational corporation and provides them with excellent firsthand business and learning experience. The program also gives Pan Am a pool of ready and experienced applicants for open positions.” Likewise, Shikuma says, Pan Am gains a great deal from the internship program — eager minds, new ideas and the opportunity to groom perspective employees for subsequent employment. With minimal costs and training, both the Company and the intern come out ahead. As Gary Trahan, an intern from LaGuardia Community College, put it, “This program is effective because everyone wins.
Pan Am gets someone eager to learn and I get a company equally eager to allow me to learn by putting into practice the skills I have learned in college.”
Despite the presence of over 150 interns in Miami, Rockleigh, JFK, and the Pan Am Building, these young people and their contributions to the company may sometimes go unnoticed. That is not to say, however, that the interns are dissatisfied with their experience here. Far from it. The interns are content
Three pan am veterans from the
FLYING BOAT ERA were among the special guests in attendance when the 50th anniversary of the flight of the Dixie Clipper was celebrated in New York on June 28th. Chairman Tom Plaskett hosted retired Captain Gib Blackmore (seated), who was the first officer aboard Pan Am’s first scheduled transatlantic passenger flight between New York and Marseilles, with stops in the Azores and Lisbon. Next to the Chairman is Joe Tavares, now Manager Flight Control in RIO, who was working as a cleaner at Horta in the Azores when the first flight arrived. Joe is the only Pan Am employee ever awarded a 50-year service pin. Next to Joe is Ed Garcia, a retired purser who began his career on the flying boats the following year.
Summer interns in the Marketing Automation department in the Pan Am Building, seated, left to right: Sharon Remedios, Gary Trahan, Dana Tamuccio. Standing are Helen Wong, Mary Fong and Elio Usalj.
Living History, Living Proof
Am and are proud of their association with the company. Elio Usalj, an intern in the Marketing Automation department in the PAB, summed it up by saying, continued on page 5
Major Expansion Planned For Miami Hub
A major expansion of Pan Am’s Miami hub md new services to Miami and two other key south Florida destinations—Fort Lauderdale and West Palm Beach—are planned for implementation during the next twelve months. The expansion plan also calls for multiple daily nonstop services to San Juan from both New York and Miami.
The expansion plan, which has been under serious consideration for more than a year, is contingent on the acquisition of additional Airbus A300 and B727 aircraft and the hiring of additional airmen and flight attendants. Pan Am has been negotiating to assume the leases on up to seven A300-B4 aircraft and to lease ten additional B727s currently available in the marketplace.
The Miami hub expansion will also require the reallocation of seven existing A310s and B727s. During July, the go-ahead was given to recruit and train an additional 250 airmen and 325 flight
by Alan Loflin
attendants by the end of November. All new positions will support the Miami expansion.
The ultimate Miami hub expansion will result in new or additional nonstop services from Philadelphia, Boston, Chicago, Washington, New Orleans, and San Francisco as well as one additional daily frequency from both JFK and LaGuardia. There will also be new or additional services from Miami to Nassau, Grand Cayman, St. Maarten and Antigua; and Tegucigalpa and San Salvador. The San Juan schedule calls for four daily A300 round trips from JFK and three from Miami.
In terms of New South Florida markets for Pan Am, the expansion provides an excellent opportunity to fill service needs on underserved routes. There is currently no existing service between JFK and West Palm Beach and only two flights per day from JFK to Fort Lauderdale on Delta.
“The first assumption is that Pan Am is taking
advantage of the reduction in services by Eastern Airlines, ” says Bill Lange, Vice President Airline Planning, “and in a sense we are, even though most of the Miami expansion was in the plans long before the Eastern strike began on March 4th. But the situation at Eastern presented us with both an excellent window of opportunity and the necessity to move faster because other carriers, including American and Delta, were also moving to fill the voids left by Eastern’s sharp curtailment of service.”
The Miami expansion is also being facilitated by a complete renovation of the F-Concourse and the Pan Am check-in and baggage areas. The construction of new gates and the expansion of existing gate space provides an opportunity to expand in a meaningful way, according to Lange, who acknowledges the construction has constrained Pan Am’s growth potential for the last couple of years. “It simply would not have continued on page 10