Classroom clipper, Vol. II, No. 4, January 1946

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January, 1946
ROUTE TO INDIA BEING SURVEYED
Clipper Departs for 20,000 Mile Flight Via Europe and Near East To Calcutta
Preparing for inauguration of scheduled air service from the United States via Europe to India, a Pan American World Airways Clipper left New York last month for a 20,000 mile survey trip to Calcutta and return.
The Clipper, a 34-ton Douglas DC-4, carries 48 technical experts k> survey facilities available for commercial passenger service, which will start as soon as landing rights are negotiated by the. U.S. State Department and the countries concerned.
Arrangements for passengers to transfer to the national lines of the countries to which Pan American will provide service are also- tO' be worked out by traffic officials on the survey flight. They likewise will designate sales agencies for Pan American in the various countries.
The trip halfway around the world and return will visit at least 13 countries in Europe and Asia on its six-week survey. Airports to be visited are: Paris and Marseilles, France; Brussels, Belgium; Frankfurt, Germany; Prague, (Praha) Czechoslovakia ; Vienna, Austria ; Belgrade (Beograd) Yugoslavia; Rome (Roma) (Italy; Athens, (Athenai) Greece, Istanbul and Ankara (Angora) Turkey; Damascus, Syria; Baghdad, Iraq; Teheran, Iran; Karachi; New Delhi and Calcutta, India. In command of the survey flight is Capt. George A. Doole, Jr. veteran Pan American Pilot.
If governmental negotiations for landing rights proceed normally, scheduled operations probably can start late this winter or in early spring. Pan American already has the planes for service and this trip will prepare the airline for service as soon as landing rights and fields are available. Fare rates have not yet been determined, but will be set at low levels comparable with those contemplated for other worldwide operations.
The route being surveyed was recently certified for operation by Pan American, pending landing right agreements, by the U. S. Civil Aeronautics Board, governmental agency which regulates domestic and overseas routes of U. S. airlines. The survey will be followed shortly by a so-called “route proving flight”, on which officials of the Civil Aeronautics Board will be carried to determine that the facilities are adequate for safe operations with passengers.
Published by Pan American World Airways
The survey plane is similar to those to be used initially on the route—a 38 passenger, four-engined, 200-mile-an-hour plane built by Douglas Aircraft. In its military version, the C-54, the new Clipper flew millions of miles all over the world and regularly across the Atlantic during the war. This plane will be supplemented with the faster, 50-passenger Constellation within a few months. Even larger and faster Clippers will come later—the 80-passenger Boeing Stratocruiser and the 400-mile-an hour Republic Rainbow, which carries 40 passengers..
Service through Europe and Asia will be available from Chicago, Detroit, Boston, Washington and Philadelphia, as well as from New York City. These cities will be added as U. S. terminals early next year as soon as routes and facilities are available.
The route certified for operation by Pan American (pending landing rights) is from New York to London, via Gander, Newfoundland, and Shannon, Eire, thence onward through Brussels, Prague, Vienna, Budapest, Belgrade (or Bucharest), Istanbul, Ankara, Teheran (or Beirut and Baghdad), Karachi and Calcutta.
Vol. II, No. 4
SOUTH AMERICA FARES REDUCED
Travel Costs Now Are 60% Less Than Original Air Fares in Latin America
Reductions in air passenger fares over the Latin American trunk line air routes were announced last month by Pan American World Airways and Pan American-Grace Airways (Panagra).
Tariffs filed with the Civil Aeronautics Board in Washington are to become effective January 1, both for travel to and from the United States and in the countries to' the South.
The new reductions in travel costs, are expected to effect savings to the traveling public of one million dollars a year.
It is expected that further benefits will be passed on to the traveling public, in the form of lower fares, when long range four-engined aircraft, now on order are made available to Pan American by manufacturers upon release by the Army and Navy. Continued on Page 2
INDIA SURVEY CREW—Photographed as they made ready to depart on their 20,000-mile mission are (left to right) Captain George A. Doole, Jr., commanding; Captain Samuel H. Miller, first officer; Captain Robert Evans, second officer; Ludwig A. Seigmann, navigator; Michael L. Boyhan and Herbert C. Seilberger, flight engineers; John A. Krinkel and Ralph E. Peterson, radio officers; Francis S. Lopez and
Lewis Casabona, stewards.