Re: INTERESTING LIVES and INTERESTING FACTS
HISTORY OF AMERICA’S most favorite airline (of late 50’s) PAN AM in PAKISTAN;
**The first flight of Pan Am to land at KARACHI airport carrying 114 passengers, was a 707 Clipper Jet from Bangkok on it’s way to Europe, took place on 10th Nov-1960. The five hour transit for transit-passengers and the crew, was at MALIR’s GRAND HOTEL (of MINWALLAS). **
It WAS a GRAND hotel indeed…right near the famous Jamia-Millia and the Quettawalla Swimming Pool.
**Pan Am’s two weekly flights from Karachi, then, were each Thursday & Saturday from the STAR GATE Airport of Karachi at 11:59 PM. The route to New York from Karachi with six stop-overs was; Tehran, Istanbul, Cairo, Rome , Frankfurt & London. **
In 1966, Pan Am’s 707 Clipper…was leased out to PIA for Karachi to Dhaka flights.
The Pan Am Building- New York
**The Pan Am building at the foot of Park Avenue towered over the middle of Manhattan. It was finished in 1963 and was the largest commercial office building in the world. Atop this sky scrapper in 1963 NY Airways began offering helicopter service between Manhattan and New York’s three major airports. **
The building was later sold to Metropolitan Life Insurance
THE PAN AM ADVERTISEMENT OF SIXTIES……..
