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Posted by Carolyn
on 8/20/2009, 4:07 pm, in reply to "Re: Loss of Pan Am"
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It's a shame Pan Am went under. I had 12 wonderful years flying for them, back when it was a wonderful experience to fly, not like cattle cars of today. I remember when we actually had 3 choices of meals in economy! The first class meal experience on a long flight was truly exceptional. We had 5 course meals, including beef tenderloin cooked onboard and carved tableside. Walking through the airport I actually felt proud to be part of such a great airline, and thanks to Pan Am I really did get to see the world! The crews almost always stayed at nice hotels, something unheard of today! It was a different era of flying, which unfortunately, we'll probably never see again.
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: Hi Willie,
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: thanks for ther response, and it is a shame.
: I even had a toy pan am jumbo jet, actusally
: a few of them whgen i was a kid. It's a
: shame some one rich doesn;t try to start pan
: am again, i mean that would be possible
: woulodn't it?
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: Mike
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: Hi guys,
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: I wantewd to know, why did Pan Am become
: bankrpt and stop services. It's a ashame as
: it was one of the worlds major airlines, and
: i grew up with it thinking that. That blue
: global emblem stood out from the rest. I
: know the lockerbie bombing affected it alot,
: and they lost alot of money, but why did
: they just becme nothinf after 1991?
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: mike
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: Hi Mike if you read through this site about
: the history Of our PAN AM you will see why
: she folded in 1991. Some of it was to do
: with PA103 The Maid of the Sea's N739PA
: 747-123 and the recovery insurance and pay
: outs. But going back in the late eighties
: PAN AM;S future was looming and sevices were
: at a loss and aircraft retired sold off
: which to make PAN AM viable.In the end the
: result was unsubstainable and the pioneer
: airline vanished. However still today PAN AM
: and its former employees and th LOGO PAN AM
: and the memories are still out there and
: won't disappear my friend. Everyone knows
: PAN AM and its the world's most exsperinced
: airline of the history of the airline
: industrie and the remarkable record holding
: by far today that know other airline can
: match her achivements. Thank you
:
: Regards
: Willie Singh for Fleetwing former PAA pilot
: SAY HLLO TO PAN AM
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:Hi Mike no matter how much we loved PAN AM
: but the collapse and the administrators the
: massive debit left behind was never
: recovered fully. Alot of debit including
: aircraft 747's DC10'S L1011's 707's 737's
: 727's A300 A310'S were still on long term
: arrangements with brokers and banks. However
: Mike if they were to bring PAN AM back to
: service it would have to be fully
: restructured on every angel and be very
: financial to survive out there today. new
: aircraft with economical savings or smaller
: aircraft would be an advantage. The air
: route structure and terminal costs would
: play a major part as well as a maintance
: base set up for PAN AM and it's facilities.
: A very close good associate of mine who
: deals with liqiudations of airliners or
: aircraft has told me it can be done if the
: right person with a sound back ground and
: financial backing or proven records or
: experince in this feild could re launch PAN
: AM, but the for closuer of the perivous PAN
: AM debit would have nothing to do with the
: new PAN AM if it started back up. It;s like
: ANSETT AUSTRALIA who went under back on
: September 11th 2001 when the WTC attacks
: happened the same day. A second ANSETT was
: relunched with only a few A320 jets but it
: couldn't survive as the pervious debit was
: still out standing and the persons or
: person relunching had to contribute to
: repaying out the perivous debit or ANSETT
: AUSTRALIA. But now the debit has being
: repaid in full ANSETT AUSTRALIA could
: restart up again what a war it would be
: between QF (QANTAS & DJ VIRGINBLUE)At
: the moment Mike people out there are hanging
: onto there money the way the world crises is
: going on. I suppose Boeing with all the
: white tails sitting at Seattle and the
: desert you would get a very cheap deal for
: sales of these big jets that orders were
: deferred or cancelled.
: Thank you for your email if you want some
: PAN AM models try the airplane shop.com or
: PAN AM aware store in MIA. Thank you
:
: Regards
: Willie Singh (former PAA pilot)
: SAY HELLO TO PAN AM
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