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Pan Am. Pan American World Airways, or "Pan Am," was principal international air carrier of the United States for most of its lifetime—first flying mail between Key West, Florida, and Havana, Cuba, in 1927. By the 1950s, Pan Am offered "around the world" service and its brand was as familiar abroad as Coca-Cola.
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Pan Am marketed business class in the 1980s. Image credit: Everything Pan Am. Pan Am economy class in the 1980s. Image credit: Everything Pan Am . The 80s were tough on Pan Am. In 1982, the airline's workforce had to be trimmed by 22%, and Pan Am reportedly lost more than $480 million that year alone. Between 1983-84, it lost a further $273.
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Pan Am was originally incorporated as Pan American Airlines on 14th March 1927. The airline was founded as a shell company meaning it had no assets or employees, just a name and a bank account. Having raised $250,000 in startup capital, the airline commenced operations on 19th of October that same year with a Fairchild FC-2 floatplane.
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Pan Am came to be in 1927 as Pan American Airways. The company began as a modest move to bolster the US presence in the Central American market before becoming the leading airline in the world. Pan Am defined the standard for luxury long-haul travel, with the naval uniforms, exciting destinations, and the jet airliner as the heart of the industry.
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Pan American Airways was the nation's sole international airline before World War II. During the war, Pan Am helped build a worldwide network of paved runways, enabling the airline to replace its luxurious but inefficient flying boats with four-engine land planes. Pan Am gained much wartime experience delivering high-priority passengers and.
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Given Pan Am's status as the principal international airline for the United States, and the often extreme opposition to U.S. policy that could be found internationally, this made the company's assets subject to violent attack. For instance, Pan Am flights 73, 281, and 841 were among those subjected to the frequent hijackings of the 1970s and
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After World War II, the airline officially changed its name to the familiar title of Pan Am American World Airways in 1950. Thereafter, in October 1955, Juan Trippe ordered 45 jetliners to help his company venture across the Atlantic. These planes included 20 Boeing 707s and 25 Douglas DC-8s. A New York-London route operated by a 707 began on.
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Pan Am's legacy: Pan American World Airways started operations in 1927 and by the late '40s was the quintessential airline of the Jet Age. Ivan Dmitri/Michael Ochs Archives/Getty Images
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Pan Am acquired China Airways Federal in 1933, which allowed the airline to expand into China. That year, Trippe, who was born in 1899 in Sea Bright, N.J., the son of an investment banker, was.
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The bombing of Pan Am Flight 103 sent a shock wave around the world. A few days before Christmas in 1988, Pan Am Flight 103, bound to New York from London and carrying mainly U.S. citizens, was blown out of the sky by a terrorist bomb over the small Scottish town of Lockerbie. In all, 270 souls perished.
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This BBC documentary tells the story of how Pan American World Airways kickstarted the jet-age and shrank the globe. Real-life 'Pan Am girls' recall a high-l.
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In fairness, Pan Am's mechanics were worse paid than others at other airlines. As per that Los Angeles Times report, the "top base salary" for Pan Am mechanics was about $29,500 (roughly equivalent to $70,200 in 2020.) When "compared with $39,600 at United Airlines" for their mechanics' salary, two things become clear.
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Featuring 64 years of epochal Pan Am history Take-Off - It was the height of the "Roaring 20's" and the promise of aviation ignited the imaginations of people around the world.Pan American Airways was born in the Fall of 1927 in a whirlwind of corporate horse trading and a scramble to meet a Post Office deadline: Fly the mail from Key West to Havana by October 19th, or forfeit the Foreign.
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Pan Am flight 103, flight of a passenger airliner operated by Pan American World Airways (Pan Am) that exploded over Lockerbie, Scotland, on December 21, 1988, after a bomb was detonated. All 259 people on board were killed, and 11 individuals on the ground also died. About 7:00 pm on December 21, Pan Am flight 103, a Boeing 747 en route to New.
