Classroom clipper, Vol. II, No. 8, May 1946

              May, 1946
Published by Pan American World Airways
Vol. II, No. 8
RECORD BREAKING FLIGHTS INAUGURATE POST-WAR PACIFIC AIR SERVICES
Flight records were shattered all over the Pacific last month as two new postwar air services were inaugurated by Pan ‘American World Airways.
Land plane Clipper service to Hawaii began April 8 with a Constellation flight from San Francisco to Hawaii. The return flight on the following day over the 2402-mile route was completed in nine hours and nine minutes which was 7j/2 hours less than the best time ever made by the Boeing 314 flying boat type of Clipper which the Constellations are replacing on the Hawaii run.
The other new service is an air link between the United States and Tokyo. It consists of a series of charter flights for the United Nations Relief and Rehabilitation Administration, and the first of these flights left San Francisco on March 24.
The new daily two way land plane Clipper service between San Francisco, Los Angeles and Honolulu virtually halves flying time to Plawaii, reduces fares 30 per cent and vastly increases passenger carrying capacity.
These new daily schedules for 38 passenger Clippers of the Constellation type will be doubled in a few weeks. With an expenditure of between $15,000,000 and $20,000,000 compared with a pre-war investment of $8,000,000, Pan American plans to re-open and extend all its Pacific services. The Auckland, New Zealand and Manila routes will probably be opened by June with extensions to Australia and other points inaugurated if approved by the Civil Aeronautics Board.
In addition, the company has applied to the CAB for a North Pacific route to the Far East via the great circle route originally planned by Pan American for the early 30s.
Before the war the Japanese had refused operating rights for this route and the trans-Pacific service had been inaugurated over the longer mid-Pacific route. It was emphasized that i f the company's applica-tion for the great circle route is approved, services would be continued via Honolulu to the South Pacific and also via Honolulu to the Southern Orient.
In a few months the company expects to assign to the Hawaii service the world’s largest and fastest commercial airplanes— the new double-decked, 80-passenger Clippers, now being built by the Boeing Aircraft Company. This will mean further reduction in fares and flying times and a vast expansion of passenger capacity over the world’s longest non-stop ocean airway.
Fares are now reduced from $278 to the new tariff of $195 one way and $350 round
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“CONNIE” STARTS HONOLULU SERVICE RECORD group of passengers board the Constellation (nicknamed Connie) for the first commercial land plane flight over the 2402-mile route to Honolulu.
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trip. Flying time for the San Francisco-Hawaii route, now nine and a half hours compared with 17 or more hours required by the veteran Boeing B-314 flying boats,
PAA TRAVEL FELLOWSHIPS
Pan American World Airways offers a series of travel fellowships for study in Latin America by qualified graduate students from the United States and for study in this country by students from Latin America. These fellowships provide air transportation by Clipper between the two countries, i.e. between the gateway city in the United States and a city served in the country in Latin America.
The fellowships are awarded on recommendation by the Institute of International Education, 2 West 45th Street, New York 19, New York and all inquiries should be addressed directly to the Institute—not to Pan American World Airways.
will be cut to eight and one half hours with the delivery of the 80 passenger 350 mile-per-hour Clippers scheduled for November.
Twice daily flights with the 38-passenger planes provide annual passenger capacity of 55,480 persons—more than the total number of 55,000 persons who moved between the Mainland and Hawaii by both sea and air combined in 1940. Twice daily schedules with the 80-passenger Boeing-built Strato-cruisers will provide capacity for 116,800 passengers a year, more than twice the volume of traffic by air and surface shipping before Pearl Harbor. Plans for this seat—capacity are premised upon the conviction that both trade and volume will greatly increase, thereby justifying this twice-daily service at a fare within the reach of every business, both large and small, and within the means of the average man and woman.
On the first UNNRA flight the return trip from Japan pioneered the Great Circle Route between Tokyo, Adak in the Aleutians, Anchorage (Alaska), and Seattle, new flight times for commercial aircraft (Continued on page 5)