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Global Era

PAN AM's GLOBAL ERA
Photos: The 1960's were barely done when Pan Am again set a standard the rest of the world was forced to follow. Pan American's Boeing B-747 Jumbo Jets brought down the cost of long distance air travel once again. Soon other "wide-body" aircraft followed, as did plenty of cut-throat competition. The expansion in capacity, increasing sophistication among travelers, a burgeoning industry evolving to cater to the demands of millions of new potential customers - all these factors made for a brave new world. So did ever more volatile fuel and commodity prices, labor struggles, and increasingly violent politicization of people in far-away places. Pan Am's world in the last full decade of operation was a far cry from what it had been. The company's powerful history and decades of experience weren't enough. The final revenue flight arrived back in Miami on December 4, 1991.
  • Pan Am aircraft visible through the window of an airport in the Peoples Republic of China, 1979
  • Pan Am Boeing 747 in flight, color photo
  • Pan Am Boeing 747 size comparison next a lines of automobiles
  • Pan Am Boeing 747 is as tall as a seven story building
  • There was plenty of seating on a Pan Am Boeing 747 economy class.
  • A Pan Am crew poses in front of a Boeing 747 SP
  • Pan Am Ad promoting comfortable seating: Pan Am First in Space

    Pan Am ad campaign touting roomy seating on B-747s

  • Pan Am pilots training for Boeing 747 at Roswell, New Mexico

     

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