Capt.Fantastic From United States of America, joined Aug 1999, 659 posts, RR: 0 Posted (7 years 11 months 3 weeks 16 hours ago) and read 2299 times:
Greetings:
Here is a blast from the past. Pan Am’s flight schedule out of New York JFK in July of 1981. There is some very interesting stuff, e.g., a weekly flight to Monrovia and daily service to Dhahran. I divided flights into international and domestic. I was surprised to see a nonstop to Melbourne FL.
RJpieces From , joined Dec 1969, posts, RR: Reply 1, posted (7 years 11 months 3 weeks 16 hours ago) and read 2251 times:
Thanks for posting that. Always love getting a look at the old timetables....I was surprised though, their international routes seemed rather limited. Are you including continuing flights (For example, their flight to Istanbul stopped in Frankfurt)?
DeltaMIA From United States of America, joined Feb 2004, 1672 posts, RR: 19 Reply 2, posted (7 years 11 months 3 weeks 16 hours ago) and read 2253 times:
Why is that? There is presently two nonstops to JFK from MLB and in August there will be three.
MLB of today is 1/10th of what MLB was in the 80's. Presently DL is the only carrier and provides nonstop service to ATL, CVG, IAD, and JFK.
It's a big building with patients, but that's not important right now.
DeltaMIA From United States of America, joined Feb 2004, 1672 posts, RR: 19 Reply 3, posted (7 years 11 months 3 weeks 16 hours ago) and read 2240 times:
Quoting RJpieces (Reply 1): Are you including continuing flights (For example, their flight to Istanbul stopped in Frankfurt)?
Yeah try listing all the stops 184 made after Dakar.
It's a big building with patients, but that's not important right now.
Capt.Fantastic From United States of America, joined Aug 1999, 659 posts, RR: 0 Reply 5, posted (7 years 11 months 3 weeks 16 hours ago) and read 2179 times:
All of the flights I listed were non-stops only. Also in the schedule I noticed allot of cargo flights. For example, cargo (but no pax service ) to BRU, and ORD. I didn't know Pan Am had 747 freighters ... These were designated in the schedule as 747F
Eastbay From United States of America, joined Aug 2003, 211 posts, RR: 2 Reply 6, posted (7 years 11 months 3 weeks 15 hours ago) and read 2166 times:
If my math is right, 33 flights per day, more or less. The Worldport must have been pretty empty for great stretches during the day....
by the way, my father flew on the Dhahran flight several times. SFO-JFK-DHA in a 747sp, then to Riyadh on Saudia, sometimes an L-1011, other times a 737. He never cared for those trips very much.
Capt.Fantastic From United States of America, joined Aug 1999, 659 posts, RR: 0 Reply 7, posted (7 years 11 months 3 weeks 15 hours ago) and read 2155 times:
Quote: Yeah try listing all the stops 184 made after Dakar.
Here ya go ... PA 184: Boeing 747 (7/05/81)
New York - Dakar
Dakar - Monrovia
Monrovia - Abidjan
Abidjan - Lagos
Lagos - Nairobi
Capt.fantastic From United States of America, joined Aug 1999, 659 posts, RR: 0 Reply 10, posted (7 years 11 months 3 weeks 15 hours ago) and read 2115 times:
Check this out: Pan Am Flight 2: (7/05/81) Boeing 747
Round-the-world flight
New York - London
London - Frankfurt
Frankfurt - Delhi
Delhi - Bangkok
Bangkok - Hong Kong
Hong Kong - Tokyo
Tokyo - Los Angeles
TymnBalewne From United States of America, joined Mar 2005, 913 posts, RR: 1 Reply 12, posted (7 years 11 months 3 weeks 15 hours ago) and read 2091 times:
This is a great blast from the past. I graduated high school in 1981. My alarm clock/radio was set to NY's WCBS 880 (All news). Every morning there would be a commercial for Pan Am.
The jingle went, "Pan Am, we fly the world the way the world wants to fly." There was also a Northwest Orient advert that went "We give you half the world, on Northwest Orient (rolling cymbal crash) Airlines."
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