Yes, those RTW flights were great. I flew PA001 LHR-JFK. Famous flights for sure.

And weirdly enough, PAA didn't survive the DDR longer than 4 months.

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+Matthudson2 I saw these PANAM B727 s at several German airports on my flights with Lufthansa in the 1980s..didn t PANAM Flight 01,round-the world-B747 operate out of Frankfurt (SFO-JFK-LHR-FRA-DEL/BOM-BKK-HKG-NRT-SFO)??

+am1966ath That's possible. But I didn't start until the late 80's. By that time, Pan Am had sold the Pacific operation to United. So, Pan Am 1 no longer flew around the world when I worked there. only flights to DEL/BOM, NBO, RUH/JED I think they had a flight to JNB, but it was removed before I started.

Matthudson2 The slow demise of PANAM this truly global airline was sad

I couldn't agree more!

Hi. Yes, nice video but sad. I worked for EA and LH. I flew PA FRA-TXL-FRA in '87. Cheers!

Hello William. Did you ever fly the San Jose Costa Rica (SJO) to Miami route on the a310 or a300?

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claus stimpfig And “Air Berlin USA”.

my last flight with PanAm to berlin was in june 1990. we had a lot of turbulences, cause the plane was not allowed to fly higher. The pilot said, that the airspace above was soviet (military) airspace.

Working for Pan Am certainly was a privilege, and they knew the party was over, too.

They had a hub in FRA serving ATH, IST, BOM, DEL, KHI, NBO, RUH, ARN, HEL, ZRH, LHR, LED, SVO, OTP, BUD, WAW, DBV, ZAG, BEG, hourly Berlin Plus JFK IAD LAX SFO MIA MCO

Service to airports in Berlin could only be offered by USA, French or British (and I suppose Soviet, but they flew to SXF) carriers under the terms of the occupation of Berlin from 1945 to 1990.

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FernandoChecon Many of them were offered jobs with Lufthansa who took over the routes.

The airplane shown was Pan Am Clipper Quick Step (Tail No. N4749). It was delivered new from Boeing to National Airlines on April 26, 1968. It was transferred to Pan Am on July 1, 1980 after Pan Am bought National. It went on to Braniff International Airlines 01/10/1992. After Braniff it was scrapped, I couldn’t find exact date of the scrapping.

Milan Harmáček When they bought a “domestic” airline to do that, they strangely chose one with a hub in Miami (National). Meanwhile of the other international carriers, TWA bought Ozark which had a hub in St. Louis, and Northwest bought Republic with hubs in Memphis and Detroit.

@@erik_griswold None of them exists any longer.

No. It thrived as an international airline and should have remained that special, exclusively international airline that is fondly remembered. It didn't survive for other reasons. In fact, adding domestic routes was a very bad decision. Unprofitable routes, political bias in favor of its closest competitor TWA, and a horrific mid-air terrorist attack all contributed to Pan Am's demise. Had the leaders considered it important to save this airline as much as the common people, it would however still be in business.

@@Bellasie1 TWA survives as American while Northwest is now Delta. Both TWA and NWA had rights to fly international flights like PanAm had. No other carriers had the ability to do so until deregulation (not counting Canadian and Caribbean/Latin America)

That was a prestigious job back then.

My dad was a Chief Pilot for Pan Am. Before he died, and when I was old enough to understand, he told me about F'n so many hot stewardesses. He told me they were girls who wanted sex but without family and friends "back home" who could find out. It was a "swingers club" when they were at their destination. He once told me he did 3 of them in one day while in Rio.