Pan American World Airways

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Pan American World Airways was a pioneering and iconic American international airline that helped popularize long-haul jet travel in the mid-20th century.

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Predicate Object
instanceOf airline
company
defunct airline
alliance Pan American–Grace Airways
callsign CLIPPER
ceasedOperations 1991-12-04
country United States
culturalImpact icon of mid-20th-century American aviation
symbol of the Jet Age
dissolved 1991
foundedBy Juan Trippe
foundingDate 1927-03-14
hadEmployee flight attendant
pilot
hadSubsidiary Pan American-Grace Airways
headquartersLocation Florida
Miami NERFINISHED
New York City
United States
IATAcode PA
ICAOcode PAA
inception 1927
industry air transport
aviation
logoFeature blue globe
mainHub John F. Kennedy International Airport NERFINISHED
Miami International Airport
notableFor developing global route networks
operating flying boats in the 1930s
pioneering international air travel
popularizing long-haul jet travel
operatedAircraft Boeing 314 Clipper
Boeing 377 Stratocruiser
Boeing 707
Boeing 747
Douglas DC-8
Lockheed L-1011 TriStar
operatedFromAirport Frankfurt Airport
LaGuardia Airport NERFINISHED
London Heathrow Airport NERFINISHED
Tokyo International Airport
operatedOnRoute United States–Latin America
transatlantic routes
transpacific routes
operatedService first commercial Boeing 747 flight in 1970
first scheduled commercial jet service between New York and Paris
parentCompany Pan Am Corporation
pioneerOf global computerized reservation systems
jet airliner services across the Atlantic
round-the-world airline services
shortName Pan Am


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