Word: pans
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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First proposed by Pan American World Airways (TIME, May 14), cut-rate flights would be based on a new class of service. Passengers would sit five across and be allowed 44 lbs. of baggage, as on present tourist flights, but would have four inches less leg room between seats. The airlines would sell sandwiches, serve no hot meals or liquor. They would thus be able to cut down the galley, make do with two stewardesses, and carry as many as 104 passengers, v. 71 on present tourist flights. On a DC-7B, the flight would take 13 hours, including stopovers...
...Though only four nations (Colombia, Peru, Mexico and Guatemala) attended, it is regarded as the birthplace of Pan American unity...
TRANSATLANTIC RATE WAR is stirring up between Pan American and Trans World Airlines. Besides first-class and tourist flights, Pan American proposes a third cut-rate (no free meals, smaller seats, more stops) service for $458 round trip between New York and Paris v. $558 for its lowest current fare...
...harder we'll pan...
GLOBAL FLIGHTS are growing so fast (12,768 passengers in 1955 v. 444 in 1950) that the Civil Aeronautics Board wants more competition for Pan American, now the only U.S. flying round-the-world line. A CAB examiner recommended that Trans World Airlines get a link into Manila, where it can connect up with Northwest Airlines to form a global...