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| Vol. 24 No. 22 | Monday
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Jewels In The Crown |
We are situate inside our rooms we branded "North Beach Club", at an after work prayer meeting, upstairs inside The Marine Air Terminal (MAT) at LaGuardia Airport. It was early October 1985, when into the room walks United Airlines Chairman Richard Ferris, as word went up: “United just purchased Pan American World Airways’ entire Pacific Division for $750 million dollars.” Jaw dropping news at MAT, Pan Am’s ancestral home base in New York City, where in 1940 the airline launched NYCs first international flights to Europe. Post WW2, MAT served as the sole aerial gateway for the greatest city in the world until Idlewild-IDL, today’s JFK opened in 1948. Now 2025 is 40 years since Pan Am sold its Pacific Division; United acquired all of Pan Am’s routes to East Asia and the South Pacific. Pan Am’s operations at San Francisco, Honolulu, and Tokyo-Narita, along with the Pacific Division fleet of eleven Boeing 747SPs, six Lockheed L1011-500s, and one McDonnell Douglas DC-10-30, and 2,700 Pan Am employees. Imagine 40 years on, all those airplanes are scrapped, but recall the B747SP a stubbier version of the great jet was always a fave and elicited a second glance taking off or rolling by at JFK. Once saw a PAA B747SP lining up with Concorde to push back from JFK that stopped all of us in our tracks. I recall PAA "America’s Airline To The World" alongside Coca Cola, were best known American brands on planet earth. Meantime in 2025, United Airlines is a mighty force, building a string of firsts across the wide Pacific, where in 1935, it all began with "The China Clipper", a Martin M-130. The China Clipper that took off 90 years ago, was in reality a transpacific airmail aircraft, with a range of less than 3,000 miles, and a contract for each flight to carry 800 pounds of mail plus six passengers, their baggage, food, and water, or whatever added up to a payload of 2,300 pounds. Fast forward to Autumn 2025 as United intends to be the only U.S. airline to offer flights to Bangkok, Thailand, and Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam, with new daily service from Hong Kong. Starting December 11, United goes nonstop between the U.S. and Adelaide, Australia from the continental U.S., also offering flights to Sydney, Brisbane, and Melbourne. United will add a second daily flight between San Francisco and Manila. United is the only U.S. airline to serve the Philippines, with service to both Manila and Cebu. By the numbers, United has raised and expanded what Pan Am began in 1935. UA flights from the U.S. to 32 different cities in the Pacific region are four times that of any other U.S. carrier as UA emerges in 2025 as the world’s largest airline, with the most extensive international network. United Cargo President Jan Krems and his first class team have emerged as a respected force and admired leaders in the global air cargo industry. “At United Cargo, we believe that our collective success is rooted in principles of service and caring.” Geoffrey Arend |
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Publisher-Geoffrey Arend • Managing
Editor-Flossie Arend • Editor Emeritus-Richard Malkin |
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