Classic airline, Pan Am, returns to the skies with – Business News
A visit honoring the legacy of Pan American World Airways is underway after a chartered jet bearing the historic airline’s branding took to the skies earlier in the week.
The airplane left John F. Kennedy International Airport in New York on Tuesday, kicking off a 12-day journey that got here with a roughly $60,000 price tag for its passengers, CBS New York reported.
The journey, described as “a Pan Am journey by private air,” comes as half of a collaboration between Criterion Travel and Bartelings with licensing from Pan American World Airways.
The operators need to give passengers the “opportunity to relive a ‘Golden Age of Travel’ on a specially curated program” with the Pan Am journey, in accordance to a brochure on Criterion Travel’s web site.
The itinerary for the round-trip journey options stops in locales that have been on Pan Am’s Southern and Northern transatlantic routes, together with Bermuda, Lisbon, Portugal, Marseille, France, London, England and Shannon, Ireland.
The brochure for the “Tracing the Transatlantic” journey touts “high-end service, stays at top hotels, fascinating destinations, reminiscences of Pan Am’s glory days, and iconic Pan Am design, logos, and identity popping up throughout.”
CBS New York reported that a Pan American World Airways flight took off from John F. Kennedy International Airport on Tuesday in what’s the begin of a 12-day journey costing about $60,000 per passenger. HUM Images/Universal Images Group by way of Getty Images
The journey is an element of a collaboration between Criterion Travel and Bartelings, with licensing from Pan American World Airways. AFP by way of Getty Images
Stops alongside the method embody Bermuda, Lisbon, Portugal, Marseille, France, London, England, and Shannon, Ireland. dpa/image alliance by way of Getty Images
The journey is utilizing a Boeing 757-200 jet with lie-flat business-class seats.
“Every detail, from the flight deck, to the cabin, has been designed with care–honoring the golden age of travel while reimagining it for today’s world,” Pan Am Brands stated in a Facebook post.
Flight attendants engaged on the journey will don uniforms that recreate the ones worn by Pan Am workers when the airline was nonetheless working, CBS New York reported.
“It’s such an honor and a privilege to be stepping into this uniform,” one flight attendant named Anna Maria Aevarsdottir informed the outlet.
“We hope we can embrace the grace that they showed America.”
The transatlantic journey was first introduced in the summer season of final 12 months.
