Clipper, Vol. XVI, No. 11, November 1959

              PARC OPENS WING PICTURES . . . Page 6
CLIPPER
LATIN AMERICAN DIVISION
MIAMI MOTOR POOL PICTURES . . . Pages 4-5
VOL XVI, NO. 11
MIAMI, FLORIDA, NOVEMBER 1959
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Through Service Links Brazil With California Gateways
Direct one-plane service between California and Brazil with Douglas DC-7C’s, the fastest of piston-engined airliners, has been introduced by Pan American.
There are two flights a week between San Francisco and Los Angeles and Brazil. In December, the flights are to be increased to four a week.
The new schedule, in addition to providing for travel on the most luxurious of piston-engined airliners, eliminates the necessity of passengers changing planes at Caracas.
Flights depart San Francisco on Monday at 10:30 p.m., and Los Angeles at 1 a.m. Tuesday. They arrive at Guatemala City Tuesday at 10:45 a.m., Panama at 4 p.m.,
Barranquilla at 6:25 p.m., Caracas at 10 p.m., Rio de Janeiro Wednesday at 11:05 a.m. and Sao Paulo at 1:15 p.m.
Northbound flights depart Sao Paulo on Thursday at 8 p.m. arriving Rio at 9 p.m., Caracas Friday at 7:15 a.m., Barranquilla at 11:05 a.m., Panama at 12:50 p.m., Guatemala at 3 :40 p.m., Los Angeles at 10:15 p.m. and San Francisco Saturday at 1:20 a.m.
All times are local.
When the schedule is increased to two flights in each direction in December, the southbound flights will depart San Francisco on Mondays and Thursdays and the northbound flights will depart Sao Paulo on Thursdays and Sundays.
needs,” James R. Brumby, campaign chairman has announced, adding, “this sum is the very least the Fund must raise if we are to look forward not only to next year but 10 years hence if Dade County is to be a good place in which to live.
Unions Aid in Drive
As in past years the various union groups within Pan American have been working to make the in-plant solicitation effective and obtain the best results on record for Company employes.
Concluding distribution of the monthly $50 prizes awarded by Pan Am for Fair Share givers in last year’s campaign, the award for November went to Patricia A. Tays, traffic representative in Reservations; and for December, to R. A. Posey, mechanic, at COB.
It’s a Wonderful NEW World With Pan American
Jet Services Extended to World Routes
707’s Popularity,
Low Fare to Boom Travel Next Year
Jet Network World Wide
The airline’s jet network now links New York with Caracas, Asuncion and Buenos Aires; New York and Boston with nine cities in Europe; Los Angeles, San Francisco, Seattle and Portland wi Honolulu, Tokyo and London; and its round-the-world jet route serves New York, London, Frankfurt, Istanbul, Beirut, Karachi, Calcutta, Bangkok, Hong Kong, Tokyo, Honolulu, Los Angeles and San Francisco.
The airline is expanding jet schedules to the Caribbean area and increasing them to South America. Jet flights are being inaugurated from Miami and New York to San Juan, Ciudad Trujillo, Montego Bay and Nassau. Flights from New York to Caracas, and to Buenos Aires by way of Caracas and Asuncion, Paraguay, have peen increased.
In December it is planned to increase Pan Am’s jet service between Seattle, Portland and Honolulu from two to three per week and extend its four weekly flights to Tokyo and Hong Kong, with one going on to Manila.
Double Service To San Juan
A month later daily jet flights will be instituted between the West Coast and Tokyo and Hong Kong and one additional flight will be added on the Seattle-Honolulu route.
In the winter, Pan Am’s round-the-world jet service will be increased from the present two per week to six. Jet service to Puerto Continued on Page 3
FAIR SHARE GIVERS in last year's United Fund drive have been awarded a $50 prize every month. The last two names for November and December are drawn from the box, held by Margaret Falcon, secretary at Executive, by Lucy Lasseville, left, clerk-stenographer; and Barbara Driskell, right, accounting clerk. The winners were Patricia A. Tays, traffic rep. insert right, and R. A. Posey, Mechanic, COB.
Boosters Still Working
Employes Subscribe $53,110 In United Fund Campaign
Pan American employes have subscribed $53,110 to the Dade County United Fund.
With 800 cards still not returned by boosters, it is hoped total contributions for the in-plant campaign will equal or exceed the sum pledged in<*> last year’s drive, which was in ex
cess of $60,000. The total number of cards distributed at the beginning of the campaign was 4,630.
While the total of gifts so far is slightly less than last year for the same period, the average subscription per giver is higher. The total number of employes solicited dur-
ing the present campaign is less than a year ago.
Need $3,635,729 The county-wide total to be raised this year is $3,635,729. This is $400,000 more than ever before sought by the United Fund here.
“Any breakdown in support by any group of corporations, employes or private individuals will mean that volunteers will not be able to meet the community’s
In the first year of jet operations Pan American World Airways has provided service with the big Boeing jets to 21 cities overseas, flying to Latin America, across the Atlantic to Europe, across the Pacific, from the West Coast to London, and around the world.
Pan American, since it inaugurated the first American-flag jet service on October 26, 1958, has flown over 210,000 jet passengers. Of this total, 189,000 were transatlantic passengers.
The popularity of the jets, combined with the public preference for the economy fare, and frequent jet schedules to all of Pan Am’s major traffic centers, will result in a 20 percent increase in travel over the Company’s worldwide routes next year, Willis G. Lipscomb, vice president, Traffic and Sales, predicted.
Vacation Travel To Be Avoided After Dec. 10
Vacation travel at the 90 per cent discount privilege will be fairly easy until December 10. After that date it will be next to impossible throughout the Latin American Division.
Reservations during the holidays and the beginning of the tourist season are tight with no slackening in sight. Employes are cautioned against starting trips, except non-stop, point-to-point flights. Delays in boarding and off-loading are almost certain to be encountered.
This condition prevails in all areas, including the Caribbean, Nassau, Western Sector, Mexico, Central America to California, and the North Coast.
New Low Fare To San Juan Is Proposed
A new bargain coach fare of $37 is being offered air travelers from Miami to San Juan, Puerto Rico, by Pan American.
The new one-way fare, filed with the Civil Aeronautics Board, will come close on the heels of Pan Am’s pure jet Clipper flights between Miami and San Juan.
Daily roundtrip flights accommodating coach fare passengers aboard four-engine Super-6 piston engine Clippers will connect the two cities.
Jet Fares Unchanged
They will depart Miami each day at 9:15 a.m., arriving in San Juan at 2 p.m. Leaving the Puerto Rican capital daily at 5:30 p.m., they arrive in Miami at 8:25 p.m., local times.
Jet Clippers, carrying 121 first class and tourist class passengers and trimming one hour and 35 minutes off present piston engine time, will leave Miami at 4:30 p.m. and arrive in San Juan at 7:40 p.m. Northbound, they depart San Juan at 2 p.m., arriving in Miami at 3:20 p.m., local times.
Pan Am’s present first class fare of $67.60 and tourist fare of $45.70 remains the same for jet travel.
To Extend Jet Service
Starting in early December, Pan American will extend the 575-mile-an-hour jetliner service to other areas in the Caribbean.
On December 11 the big Boeing 707’s will begin flying two flights a week in each direction between Miami and Ciudad Trujillo, Dominican Republic, and Montego Bay, Jamaica.
On the same date, the jetliners will begin four flights a week between New York and Ciudad Trujillo.
Beginning December 12, the jetliners will fly six flights a week between New York and Nassau. This service will be increased to 10 flights a week starting January 1.
Committee Posts Given Executives
Two Pan Am executives have been named to fill important committee posts for the International Air Transport Association.
An IATA spokesman said they were chosen as “outstanding experts to serve on behalf of the entire industry.” The committee assignments went to:
Willis G. Lipscomb, vice president, Traffic and Sales, named to serve on the Traffic Advisory Committee.
Hubert A. Schneider, who assumes the duties of vice president and general counsel on January 1, appointed a member of the IATA I Legal Committee.
Airlines Offer Rate Cuts To Government
Pan Am Joins in Proposing Cargo, Passenger Airlift
A unique and far reaching program for reducing substantially tariffs applicable to overseas government air traffic, as well as providing a more effective airlift in emergencies, has been submitted to United States government departments and agencies by Pan American and three other U.S. air carriers.
Acting under a recent order issued by the Civil Aeronautics Board and in line with requests from the Department of Defense for an increase in the nation’s long range cargo airlift capacity, the four air carriers which provide the scheduled United States flag service to Europe, Africa, the Middle East, he Orient, and Australasia, have developed a program benefiting all government departments and agencies, and especially valuable to the Department of Defense.
Aims at Reducing Costs
It also is in accord with a principal Hoover Commission recommendation advocating the reduction of government competition with the private airline industry all with a view of reducing government cost and taxes.
The reduced rates to be made available to the government would reflect the lower cost of handling government traffic, where advertising and other normal selling costs are not involved.
Lower government tariffs would increase the volume of government overseas air passenger and cargo business. The government also would be justified in transferring part of the traffic now carried by the government by MATS service and destined to points abroad regularly serviced by the scheduled airlines.
Aid In Buying Aircraft
Moreover, transfer of such traffic to the civil airlines will justify and enable them, as regulated public utilities, to acquire new fleets of modern, long range, turbine powered cargo aircraft. Such air-Continued on page 3
LONG TRIP—StepFianie Hill, nine years old, arrived in Sao Paulo from Hong Kong to visit her uncle, Alex Anadenkoff, head of the World Council of Churches in the Brazil city. She traveled alone in care of Pan American personnel who arranged onward connections for her. With her is Stewardess Luz Maria Kerr.