Clipper, Vol. 13, No. 10, July 3, 1957

              Vol. 13 No. 10
PUBLISHED BY THE EMPLOYEES OF PAN AMERICAN WORLD AIRWAYS
July 3, 1957
Australia Offered Transcontinental Route For Qantas
The Australian delegation to the recent bilateral discussions held in Washington with representatives from the U. S. State Department and CAB has been successful in winning an offer that would allow Qantas to fly across the United States to New York and beyond to London, and to points beyond London. This paves the way for establishment of a one-carrier, round-the-world service from Australia via the United States and Europe.
In return for this concession the Australian delegation has suggested that its government might give United States airlines the following rights—none of which offer any great amount of traffic:
To enter Sydney via New Zealand and to continue through Australia via Melbourne, Perth or Darwin and beyond to other countries, including South America by way of Antarctica. However, implementation of any service “beyond” Australia by a United States carrier would require permission from the countries concerned in addition to that of Australia.
The Australian delegation has now returned home to confer with its government officials on the acceptance of the IJ. S. proposal.
Should the Australian government accept this offer — in which they are getting “everything” for nothing—it would create the unusual situation of a foreign-flag carrier, Qantas, being allowed to carry passengers across the United States while a IJ. S. airline, Pan American, that flies from Sydney to San Francisco is denied the right to do the same thing.
Equipment Shortage Helped By Acquisition Of DC-7C
The Pacific-Alaska Division has acquired another DC-7C that it will be able to use for extra sections and charter work during the rush summer season.
The airplane has been purchased from CMA, hut that airline has an option to buy the plane back (rom Pan American. It will, however, remain in the PAD at least through August.
It will be operated in an all-tourist configuration.
POUR GIRL MAKES GOOD IN BIG CITY
Pan American recently opened a new flight kitchen at Sydney’s Kingsford-Smith Airport. The facilities were given a test run at a dinner party for 20 local journalists. Commissary supervisor Milt Forman personally cooked the meal. Here ground hostess Noel Bressington keeps the guests’ enthusiasm bubbling with a refill of imported champagne.
PRESIDENT TRIPPE REPORTS
Tells Stockholders That Pan American Will Fly Almost Three Million Passengers During 1957
Nearly 3,000,000 passengers will | be carried on Pan American’s global I routes during 1957, President Juan I T. Trippe said at the company’s I 29th annual meeting of stockholders j in New York City.
The record high represents an approximate 15 per cent increase over the 2,600,000 in 1956.
President Trippe based his forecast upon traffic figures for the first four and a half months of 1957 which showed increases in passengers carried throughout the Pan American system in comparison with a corresponding period for 1956.
The greatest upswing—24 per cent—was in Pan American's Atlantic operation. He pointed out that the summer European tourist surge started in May, a month earlier than usual. Westbound trans-Atlantic travel also is running higher than a year ago.
Pan American is scheduling 154 trans-Atlantic flights a week this summer—the majority of which will be operated with DC-7C equipment non-stop in both directions. DC-7C’s are the fastest and quietest transports in international service.
PAA’s chief executive reiterated his previous prediction that the receipt of jet airliners now on order bv American and foreign-flag airlines will more than double present international passenger travel.
! He told stockholders that con-j struction on the first series of jet transports that Pan American will receive beginning late next year was proceeding on schedule. Their actual flight tes-ting was expected to begin in seven months. Pan American has ordered 44 Boeing and Douglas jets and will be the first to put them into service on international routes.
Pan American is continuing to help alleviate the shortage of overseas hotel space, which has been a deterrent to post-war travel, he said.
The company’s wholly-owned subsidiary, Intercontinental Hotels Corporation, which already operates nine tourist hotels abroad, will open tw'o more this year, in Curacao, the Dutch West Indies, and at San Juan, Puerto Rico.
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Juan T. Trippe Finishes 30 Years As PAA President
Pan American President Juan T. Trippe last month completed thirty years as president of the company. Under his leadership the company’s operations have grown from a 90-mile route between Key West and Havana to a world-wide system with 65,139 route miles.
His interest in aviation dated from World War I when he became a Navy pilot. In 1922 he and several friends purchased three World War I fennies and formed Long Island Airways.
Next President Trippe helped form Colonial Air Transport and became its general manager. Operating between New York and Boston, this airline held the first U. S. air mail contract.
The birth of Pan American occurred shortly after he discontinued his association with Colonial. He was one of the organizers and the original president.
In 1943, after PAA had circled South America and bridged both the Pacific and Atlantic, President Trippe declared that the airlines had the choice of being “a luxury service to carry the well-to-do at high prices, or to carry the average man at what he can afford to pay.” He chose the latter course for Pan American, and the great increases in post-war air traffic stemmed largely from the adoption of the policy he postulated in 1943— tourist class service.
Supervisor Shifts Announced By Buildings & Facilities
Buildings & Facilities last month announced the following realignments of supervisory personnel:
Dave McKenzie has been named B&F foreman at Wake, replacing John Fournie, who is returning to Seattle after having completed a year at Wake. Ed Boudinot has been assigned as foreman of the Steam Plant at San Francisco. His post as foreman of the Utility Shop will be taken by Dave Corser, who is returning from Wake.
Berlin And Hamburg Now Stops On PAA Cargo Flights
Pan American has extended its trans-Atlantic all-cargo service to Berlin and Hamburg. This allcargo service is the first to be regularly scheduled between the LJnited States and Berlin.