Sales clipper, Vol. 17, No. 7, July 1959

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PUBLISHED FOR PAA S TRAFFIC SALES & SERVICE PERSONNEL
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New York, N. Y.
July. 1959
Sales Ahead 10°Jo of End of First Five Months
At the end of the first five months of the year, System sales were 10 per cent ahead of comparable period of 1958 with U..S. Sales leading the way with a 13.5 per cent increase.
U. S. Sales showed an increase in passenger revenue of 12.2 per cent and an increase in cargo of 24.4 per cent.
In the Atlantic Division, passenger sales were strong for a 9.1 per cent increase and a total revenue increase of 7.6 per cent.
In LAD, cargo was up 15.1 per cent and passenger sales were ahead 5.4 per cent for a total increase of 6.3 per cent.
Cargo also was way ahead in PAD —21 per cent—and a two per cent total increase was recorded in this division also.
On a System-wide basis, passenger sales were ahead 9.2 per cent, and cargo sales showed a 16.6 per cent increase.
The transatlantic passenger total for the first five months of the year is 35
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per cent ahead of the same period last year and high seat factors are expected to continue throughout the year in both jets and piston planes on transatlantic routes.
Hawaii travel is 20 per cent ahead of last year and traffic to Latin America shows a 25 per cent increase over last year at this time. New York-Puerto Rico traffic is up more than 40 per cent with New York-Caribbean travel up 17 per cent.
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Designer-Created for Jet Service
A new stewardess uniform specially designed by Don Loper, famous Beverly Hills couturier, for Pan Am, is officially adopted as System Standard and is already being worn by stewardesses on Pan Am Clippers. See Page 5 for full story and more pictures.
July 20 Selected For LAD Jet Debut
Pan American will inaugurate jet service on July 20 between North and South America.
Jet Clippers will link Caracas, Buenos Aires and Asuncion with New York, reducing flying time over the 5,444-mile route to only 11 hours and 35 minutes.
At Caracas and Buenos Aires the jet schedules merge with Pan Am service to other areas of South America, and at New York with Jet Clipper service to Europe.
The Boeing 707 Clippers will carry 110 passengers, 40 in first class and 70 in tourist class.
A refueling stop will be made at Paramaribo, Surinam, on southbound flights until completion of a longer runway at Caracas makes this operational stop unnecessary.
Schedules for the weekly service, being filed for approval of the governments concerned, call for departures from New York each Monday at 9 A.M., Caracas at 1:45 P.M., Paramaribo at 5:30 P.M., Asuncion at 9:50 P.M. and arrival at Buenos Aires at midnight, local times.
Northbound flights will leave Buenos Aires at 8 A.M. each Tuesday, Asuncion at 9:30 A.M., Caracas at 3:30 P.M., and arrive in New York at 8:40 P.M. local times.
Proving flights, May 7 to 9, between New York and Buenos Aires showed the nearly 10-mile-a-minute Jet Clipper to cities which now will see the Jet Clippers regularly. The radar-equipped, four-jet airliner set new records wherever it flew—New York to Caracas, 2,173 miles in 4 hours 23 minutes; Caracas to Paramaribo, 904 miles in 2 hours, 13 minutes; Paramaribo to Asuncion, 2,123 miles in 4 hours, 22 minutes, and Asuncion to Buenos Aires, 741 miles in 1 hour, 36 minutes.
The return to New York was even faster—Buenos Aires to Asuncion in 1 hour, 31 minutes; Asuncion to Caracas, 2,522 miles in 5 hours 12 minutes, and Caracas-New York in 4 hours, 13 minutes.
No effort for speed records is made during proving flights. Scheduled operations should show even faster times between cities on the route.