The PAN AM World DocuProject: Sharing Your Experience
Our intentions and what we do
Step by step we are researching and documenting PAN AM's U.S. and worldwide bases' history with the focus on PAN AM's people. This includes interviews of PANAMers to preserve their personal PAN AM related experiences, memorabilia like pictures, belongings, etc. on video.
And we want to release these online, at the PAN AM Historical Foundation and the PAN AM Museum as well as exhibitions at other Museums as well. For that reason we ask PANAMers for their support in giving details on their bases' history or/and for an on-camera video interview at home or wherever they want.
We all appreciate your contribution to this research and documentation.
What You can do….read more here.
PAN AM's History of Bases and their Staff
PAN AM's last attempt for takeover and for its survival 1988-1991
This Flight Schedule (1986) already excludes destinations of PAN AM's Pacific Division which was sold to United Airlines in 1985. PAN AM used to have an Asian market share between 14 to 23 %.
PAN AM's later CEO Thomas G. Plaskett tried to get back the fast growing Asian market for PAN AM in 1988 when PAN AM tried to take over Northwest Airlines which had a strong Asian airsystem. The merger was expected to result in annual savings of $240 million. Due to an investment group headed by Al Checci PAN AM was outbid, Northwest almost went bancrupt on this and later was absorbed by Delta Airlines. Just a little more than two years after PAN AM's last buyout attempt PAN AM stopped services in 1991.
PAN AM's Flight Schedule (1986)