Good morning fellow ECAHF’ers and happy Friday! According to the news blog “Morning Brew” and downloaded today from: CLICK HERE
Pan Am is back (sorta)
One of aviation's most storied brands is attempting a comeback.
By Brendan Cosgrove
June 20, 2025
“More than three decades after declaring bankruptcy, Pan American World Airways has returned to the skies. A blue-and-white Boeing 757, complete with the iconic Pan Am logo, departed from New York on Tuesday, carrying 50 passengers across the Atlantic as part of a 12-day luxury tour.
“A flight down memory lane. While billionaire entrepreneurs launch futuristic rockets and Katy Perry into space, Pan Am has an eye toward the past, aiming to replicate the experience your grandparents rave about—namely, fully reclining seats, an open bar, and flight attendants in little hats.
The private trip, which stops in Bermuda, Portugal, France, the UK, and Ireland, costs at least $59,950.00 per person, including lodging, Bloomberg reported.
“Technically, the Pan Am airline is not back: Investors bought the trademark last year and are now merely slapping the brand on a chartered plane, staffed with borrowed flight attendants. But more ambitious plans are on the horizon, including:
- Another Pan Am-branded tour with stops in the Pacific
- A Los Angeles hotel
- A revamped 1970s “dinner theater” experience
- Maybe: becoming a real airline again with regularly scheduled service (it already has an FAA call sign: Clipper)
“In the lap of luxury. The revived Pan Am joins United, British Airways, and other major airlines that are beefing up their high-end offerings. Air France, for instance, is trying to lure private jet customers onto commercial flights with an upgraded first-class experience.”
Some people have more dollars than cents…or is that sense?
Onward and upward!
Kind regards,
Barry R. Fetzer
ECAHF Historian