'The Clipper is coming back'

Tabnabs

You only need say “I’m flying Pan Am” to conjure up reveries of the days when flying was romantic, adventurous, fun and even elegant aboard the iconic globe-trotting U.S. flagship airline.

Pan American Airways – founded in 1927 and failed by 1991 -- returns to the skies in November, operating out of Brownsville, Texas, initially as a cargo service in partnership with World-Wide Consolidated Logistics Inc. to South American cities.

Its owners hope to eventually evolve into a commercial passenger carrier as well.

This will be the fifth attempt to resurrect the Pan Am name since the original airline went down in bankruptcy in 1991.

On Nov. 12 the newest Pan American Airways gets off the ground at the Brownsville South Padre Island International Airport. Inaugural cargo flights will be from Brownsville to Monterrey and other cities in Mexico.

Offices will be housed in the newly refurbished 1931 Pan American Airways Building at the Brownsville airport as well as a TSA Certified cargo screening facility.

According to Pan Am President Robert Hedrick, the airline plans 70 cargo flights a month to Latin America destinations. Pan Am’s future passenger service will be developed with an eye toward the 2011 Pan American Games in Guadalajara, Mexico; 2014 World Cup in Brazil; and the 2016 Olympics in Brazil. (Correction made to reflect World Cup will be in Brazil.)

The airline also plans to develop cargo and passenger service to Africa -- especially Johannesburg, Nairobi, Addis Abba and Cairo -- with a global hub based in Cape Verde, Hedrick said.

clicky

Manic Moran

I wasn't aware that the regional start-up had failed.

Apparently the reason this new crowd has a different logo is that the old brand has been purchased by a railway.



NTM

Delancey

Best of luck to them , given that all the previous incarnations of Pan Am have gone tits up I reckon they'll need it.
Always shocked me when Pan Am bit the dust - if bankruptcy can happen to what was unofficially the U.S. Flag Carrier and even an instrument of U.S. Foreign Policy then it can happen to any airline ( Aer Lingus take note ).

As an aside I had a girlfriend whose Aunt or Grand Aunt ( can't remember which ) spent most of her working life with Pan Am - in her 70's this lady was working 3 or 4 days a week as a carer because the Pan Am pension fund had collapsed and instead of the comfortable pension she was promised she was getting a pittance.
Seems to be happening a lot to US airline pension funds.