| 20 Years Alaska Service Observed By Pan American |
Twenty years of service in and
to Alaska is being observed this
year together with ’the 25th an
niversary of Pan American World
Airways System.
The international carrier which
has grown to a world-wide airline
of 155,000 route miles carrying
the American flag to all six con
tinents started 25 years ago with
a daring operation across 90 miles
of water between Havana and
Key West, Fla.
The fledgling company was only
five years old when Pacific Alaska
Airways, the predecessor com
pany of Pan Am in Alaska, began
scheduling regular flights in Al
aska. That was 1932.
That first year, the company
carried 6,637 passengers.
This year, they expect to carry
more than 50,000 on Alaska routes.
In 1932, the air fare, for exam
ple, between Fairbanks and Nome
was $1,000. The fare today is $50.
Other fares have been reduced
steadily through the years as the
benefits of modern equipment and
mass - transportation techniques !
have been utilized.
John W. White, regional direc
tor tand himself a long-time Al
aska resident) says, "Pan Am has
consistently improved and mod
ernized its Alaska services for
20 years. Great as past progress
has been, we are confident about
even greater progress in the com
ing 20 years. We are constantly
planning and looking ahead to
keep Alaska’s air transportation
growing with the territory.”
In the United States there are
more than 5,000 companies oper
ating about 8,000 coal mines.
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A direct air-link between interior Alaska and the United States
came about in 1940 when Pan Am began Seattle-Juneau service
with "Old Betsy," a Sikorsky S-40 flying boat. A connection
was made at Juneau with landplanes serving the Juneau-Fair
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banks segment.
Captain S. C. (Robbie) Robbins standing alongside an old ski
equipped Fairchild typified the equipment Pan American used
when Alaska services first began in 1932.
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