Sales clipper, Vol. 22, No. 9, September 1964

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PUBLISHED FOR PAN AMERICAN S TRAFFIC SALES & SERVICE PERSONNEL
Pan Am Launches Biggest Off-Season Atlantic Airlift

r-SPEED CHECK IN . . . Traffic Representative Ursula Goeschen makes a push-button check-in of a "passenger" at Pan American Airways' terminal at New York's John F. Kennedy International Airport on a test unit of a new electronic system which is being developed by Pan Am to streamline pre-flight procedures.
Pan Am Develops First All Electronic Check-In System
The airline industry’s first all electronic check-in and load control system, designed to reduce substantially passenger check-in time, is being developed by Pan Am for installation at its passenger terminal at John F. Kennedy International Airport in New York.
The system, which makes vital information instantly available at the check-in counter and eliminates paperwork and telephone calls to the aircraft load control center, consists of 22 Teleregister cathode-ray interrogators resembling a combination adding machine and small screen TV set.
Located at each of the Pan Am check-in positions, the Teleregister interrogators, made by the Bunker-Ramo Corporation, will be connected to a central IBM 1440 computer complex.
When a passenger arrives at the check-in counter, the agent makes a push-button entry of the passenger’s name and asks the computer for a verification of his reservation. This data is flashed back by the computer and appears on the TV-like screen.
The agent then confirms or corrects this record and enters the baggage weight, which is transmitted to the computer for use in the aircraft load control function. In addition, the system allows the passenger the best possible selection of seats.
Twenty interrogators will be positioned throughout the main terminal at Kennedy Airport. One interrogator will be located at the East Side Terminal and one at the Pan Am Building in New York City.
The new electronic system, conceived and designed by Pan Am in its continuing program to streamline pre-flight procedures and make air travel easier for its passengers, is expected to be in use in time for the 1965 peak travel season.
Pan Am Jet Clippers will cross the Atlantic 178 times a week beginning October 25.
The schedule represents the most transatlantic service ever offered by an airline during the fall-winter “off-season.”
Pan Am will fly to 26 cities throughout Europe from 16 American cities. Service from seven of the American cities will be increased this winter over last; at the others it will be maintained at the same levels.
Several services inaugurated during the summer peak season will make their appearance for the first time among off-season air services.
One is the transatlantic jet service to Berlin begun by Pan Am.
Another is transatlantic jet service originating in New Orleans and Atlanta. Through an interchange agreement Delta Air Lines crews will fly the Jet Clippers daily on the domestic New Orleans-Atlanta-Washington portion; Pan Am crews will take over to fly on five days a week to London, the other two to Paris.
Between John F. Kennedy Airport and Europe (Continued on Page 6)
July Traffic Figures Top Industry Record
Pan Am in July handled the heaviest volume of passenger and cargo traffic in the history of the overseas air transport industry.
Recording gains in scheduled service throughout its system Pan Am’s preliminary July figures showed a 20.9 per cent increase in revenue passenger miles and a 49.6 per cent gain in revenue cargo ton miles compared to the record levels of July, 1963.
Pan Am carried 85,084 passengers across the Atlantic during the month compared to the then-record total of 70,855 in July of 1963. Pan Am flew 421,000,000 revenue passenger miles in scheduled Atlantic services, an increase of 17.1 per cent.
Hawaii Fare Credited
Pacific traffic also was at new heights, partly because of the $100 California-Hawaii fare. Pan Am flew 238,000,000 revenue passenger miles in its scheduled Pacific services, an increase of 34.8 per cent over the previous July.
In July the airline flew 8,000,000 revenue passenger miles in scheduled Alaska services, an increase of 22.2 per cent and 238,-000,000 revenue passenger miles in its scheduled Latin American services, an increase of 15.7 per cent.