PAN AMERICAN AIRWAYS (1998-2004)

'Pan American Airways' , a 1998 incarnation of an older airline, was a United States airline that operated scheduled services in the eastern USA, as well as charters for tour operators and services to the Dominican Republic.^[1]

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History

Pan Am Clipper Connection

21st Century Pan Am Railroad

References

History

The Pan Am brand was sold by a second incarnation of Pan American World Airways to New Hampshire-based Guilford Transportation Industries, a railroad company headed by Tim Mellon of the Pittsburgh banking family, and the new airline was established on June 29, 1998. Guilford launched Pan American Airways with a fleet of seven Boeing 727s. The third incarnation resumed scheduled operations on October 7, 1999 and flew to nine cities in New England, Florida, the Canadian Maritimes and Puerto Rico. The focus was on secondary airports such as Orlando Sanford International Airport instead of Orlando International Airport, and Pease International Airport and Worcester Regional Airport instead of the crowded Logan International Airport in the Boston area.
The new owners relocated the company headquarters from Fort Lauderdale to Portsmouth in December 1998. Pan Am later had cooperative service arrangements with Boston-Maine Airways, a subsidiary incorporated by the airline in March 1999.

Pan Am Clipper Connection

Mainline operations were suspended in January 2003, with a view to the resumption of services in the near future, adding several new routes later in 2003. Guilford ceased operating Pan American Airways on November 1, 2004. Operations were transferred to Boston-Maine Airways, which resumed 727 service under the "Pan Am Clipper Connection" brand from February 17, 2005.

21st Century Pan Am Railroad

Months after Pan American World Airways became defunct, its owner, Guilford Rail System, started a project that puts Pan Am's evocative blue-and-white globe on hundreds of Guilford's Boston and Maine and Maine Central railroad boxcars. Guilford also owns Boston-Maine Airways. In March 2006 Guilford Rail System changed its name to Pan Am Railways (PAR), which is a subsidiary of Pan Am Systems, formerly known as Guilford Transportation Industries (GTI), and later that year began applying the Pan Am name and colors to locomotives formerly lettered for Guilford Rail System. Guilford has owned the Pan Am name, colors and logo since 1998. [1]

References

1. Flight International 12–18 April 2005