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Published for PAA’s Traffic Sedes & Service Personnel
Voi. 11, No. 4 New York, N. Y. April, 1954
DRYDOCK FOR PAA CLIPPERS—This is a sight that the sales personnel at LAD's sales H.Q. in the West Wing of Hangar 7, Miami International Airport, can look down upon any day in the week. Their offices are on the 4th floor and the lb-ton “drydock” that PAA designed and built to service its Clippers is also four stories high. It even has a telephone through which men working at the wing tips 117 feet apart can talk to one another. For a story on the Miami Overhaul Base, “M.O.B. — Monument to PAA Safety”, see Page 5.
GO NOW, PAY LATER
"PAY LATER" PLAN FILED WITH CAB
Cars, TV sets, houses, almost everything in the United States can be bought on the installment or "time payment" plan. These things are "easy" to buy and hence easy to sell. In filing its "Pan Am Pay Later Plan" PAA is making travel just as easy to buy, is making travel more competitive ."More than any other single influence, credit has enabled Americans to achieve and maintain the highest standard of living in the world. We want to see international travel made a regular part of that standard of living," said Willis G. Lipscomb, Vice President, Traffic and Sales, in announcing the plan.
BULLETIN
As we go to press, the “Pan Am Pay Later Plan” is being presented to the Civil Aeronautics Board in Washington by Richard L. Lounsbury, General Traffic Manager.
There has never been anything quite like it before: a time-payment plan for nternational travel in which the traveler pays 10 percent down on all or part of his PAA and specified connecting carrier transportation or of a pre-arranged tour featuring PAA System transportation.
Under the proposed PAY LATER plan, a traveler has up to 20 months to pay.
He can make the arrangements right in the agent’s or PAA office, doesn’t have to go anywhere else to be interviewed.
The plan is uniform and nationwide.
It is easy for agents to sell and the agent doesn’t have to wait for payment.
New Market
The plan will open up a tremendous new travel market — especially among that large majority of the population which does not have large cash reserves. For the teacher, the factory worker, the butcher, the baker and candlestick maker, PAA’s PAY LATER plan will make international travel as easy to buy as a car or a camera. It will make prepaid travel much easier to buy.
The idea of selling travel on a time-payment basis is not new, but nobody, up until now, has been able to develop a real national plan for financing travel.
The Client's Part
Under the proposed plan, all the client has to do is: Give the agent or PAA representative a 10 percent deposit on his trip; fill out and sign an application, and, when he gets his tickets, sign a note and ticket receipt.
Continued on Page 2
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“Clipper” Trade Mark, Reg. U. S. Pat. Off.
Response to PAA TV
Agents Write To Praise PAA Show
A thick folder full of letters froin U. S. agents to Willis G. Lipscomb, Vice President Traffic & Sales, measured their enthusiasitc response to the February 25 nationwide closed-circuit TV show in which Pan American pictured and spelled out its 1954 program.
The letters, from agents in cities all over the country, are generous with words of praise like — “outstanding-job,” “wealth of material,” “masterly presentation,” “audience interest maintained throughout.”
Almost all agents cited Pan American’s firm, advance schedules as an outstanding sales aid. Typical comments on this were: “There’s one thing I’d like to commend you for, and that is to make up a timetable and then stick to it! What a relief . . .” “The advance schedules are helping us immeasux-e-ably with bookings for 1954.”
Some agents offered detailed, multi-paged analyses of the show. Many suggested that Mr. Lipscomb, as master of ceremonies, USSM John Ogilvie, Bill Risley and others might make a good living on TV.
The Summing Up
Perhaps the general reaction was best summed up by R. W. Hemphill, Pi’esident of the Hemphill Travel Service in Los Angeles, who wi-ote: “I think we all went away with the feeling that we had somehow sat down in your office and talked with you, (Executive V. P.) Harold Gray, John Ogilvie, Captain Walker, Bill Risley and the others.”
$10 FREE
Remind outbound passengers that they can send home duty-free (to the U. S.) individual gifts valued at $10 or less.
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| Full Text | Published for PAA’s Traffic Sedes & Service Personnel Voi. 11, No. 4 New York, N. Y. April, 1954 DRYDOCK FOR PAA CLIPPERS—This is a sight that the sales personnel at LAD's sales H.Q. in the West Wing of Hangar 7, Miami International Airport, can look down upon any day in the week. Their offices are on the 4th floor and the lb-ton “drydock” that PAA designed and built to service its Clippers is also four stories high. It even has a telephone through which men working at the wing tips 117 feet apart can talk to one another. For a story on the Miami Overhaul Base, “M.O.B. — Monument to PAA Safety”, see Page 5. GO NOW, PAY LATER "PAY LATER" PLAN FILED WITH CAB Cars, TV sets, houses, almost everything in the United States can be bought on the installment or "time payment" plan. These things are "easy" to buy and hence easy to sell. In filing its "Pan Am Pay Later Plan" PAA is making travel just as easy to buy, is making travel more competitive ."More than any other single influence, credit has enabled Americans to achieve and maintain the highest standard of living in the world. We want to see international travel made a regular part of that standard of living," said Willis G. Lipscomb, Vice President, Traffic and Sales, in announcing the plan. BULLETIN As we go to press, the “Pan Am Pay Later Plan” is being presented to the Civil Aeronautics Board in Washington by Richard L. Lounsbury, General Traffic Manager. There has never been anything quite like it before: a time-payment plan for nternational travel in which the traveler pays 10 percent down on all or part of his PAA and specified connecting carrier transportation or of a pre-arranged tour featuring PAA System transportation. Under the proposed PAY LATER plan, a traveler has up to 20 months to pay. He can make the arrangements right in the agent’s or PAA office, doesn’t have to go anywhere else to be interviewed. The plan is uniform and nationwide. It is easy for agents to sell and the agent doesn’t have to wait for payment. New Market The plan will open up a tremendous new travel market — especially among that large majority of the population which does not have large cash reserves. For the teacher, the factory worker, the butcher, the baker and candlestick maker, PAA’s PAY LATER plan will make international travel as easy to buy as a car or a camera. It will make prepaid travel much easier to buy. The idea of selling travel on a time-payment basis is not new, but nobody, up until now, has been able to develop a real national plan for financing travel. The Client's Part Under the proposed plan, all the client has to do is: Give the agent or PAA representative a 10 percent deposit on his trip; fill out and sign an application, and, when he gets his tickets, sign a note and ticket receipt. Continued on Page 2 m “Clipper” Trade Mark, Reg. U. S. Pat. Off. Response to PAA TV Agents Write To Praise PAA Show A thick folder full of letters froin U. S. agents to Willis G. Lipscomb, Vice President Traffic & Sales, measured their enthusiasitc response to the February 25 nationwide closed-circuit TV show in which Pan American pictured and spelled out its 1954 program. The letters, from agents in cities all over the country, are generous with words of praise like — “outstanding-job,” “wealth of material,” “masterly presentation,” “audience interest maintained throughout.” Almost all agents cited Pan American’s firm, advance schedules as an outstanding sales aid. Typical comments on this were: “There’s one thing I’d like to commend you for, and that is to make up a timetable and then stick to it! What a relief . . .” “The advance schedules are helping us immeasux-e-ably with bookings for 1954.” Some agents offered detailed, multi-paged analyses of the show. Many suggested that Mr. Lipscomb, as master of ceremonies, USSM John Ogilvie, Bill Risley and others might make a good living on TV. The Summing Up Perhaps the general reaction was best summed up by R. W. Hemphill, Pi’esident of the Hemphill Travel Service in Los Angeles, who wi-ote: “I think we all went away with the feeling that we had somehow sat down in your office and talked with you, (Executive V. P.) Harold Gray, John Ogilvie, Captain Walker, Bill Risley and the others.” $10 FREE Remind outbound passengers that they can send home duty-free (to the U. S.) individual gifts valued at $10 or less. 1 |
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