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New York Post
18 hours ago
- Business
- New York Post
Pan Am returns to the skies with special 12-day transatlantic journey: ‘Opportunity to relive aGolden Age of Travel'
A trip 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 plane left John F. Kennedy International Airport in New York on Tuesday, kicking off a 12-day trip that came with a roughly $60,000 price tag for its passengers, CBS New York reported. Advertisement The trip, described as 'a Pan Am journey by private air,' comes as part of a collaboration between Criterion Travel and Bartelings with licensing from Pan American World Airways. The operators want to give passengers the 'opportunity to relive a 'Golden Age of Travel' on a specially curated program' with the Pan Am trip, according to a brochure on Criterion Travel's website. The itinerary for the round-trip journey features stops in locales that were on Pan Am's Southern and Northern transatlantic routes, including Bermuda, Lisbon, Portugal, Marseille, France, London, England and Shannon, Ireland. The brochure for the 'Tracing the Transatlantic' trip 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.' Advertisement 3 CBS New York reported that a Pan American World Airways flight took off from John F. Kennedy International Airport on Tuesday in what is the start of a 12-day trip costing about $60,000 per passenger. HUM Images/Universal Images Group via Getty Images 3 The trip is part of a collaboration between Criterion Travel and Bartelings, with licensing from Pan American World Airways. AFP via Getty Images 3 Stops along the way include Bermuda, Lisbon, Portugal, Marseille, France, London, England, and Shannon, Ireland. dpa/picture alliance via Getty Images The trip is using a Boeing 757-200 jet with lie-flat business-class seats. Advertisement '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 said in a Facebook post. Flight attendants working on the trip will don uniforms that recreate the ones worn by Pan Am staff when the airline was still operating, 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 told the outlet. Advertisement 'We hope we can embrace the grace that they showed America.' The transatlantic trip was first announced in the summer of last year.
CBS News
3 days ago
- CBS News
Pan Am returns to JFK Airport with flight commemorating Southern and Northern Trans-Atlantic routes
Pan Am left an incredible mark on aviation history, and on Tuesday there was a rare opportunity for history to repeat itself. For more than 60 years, Pan American World Airways, also known as Pan Am, took its passengers to new limits. On Tuesday, there was a commemorative flight out of John F. Kennedy International Airport that paid tribute to one of the world's great airlines. Complete with Pan Am logos, the private charter jet took off on a 12-day journey, tracing the legendary Southern and Northern Trans-Atlantic routes. Passengers will be making stops in Bermuda and throughout Europe. With everything included, such as 5-star hotels, the nostalgic trip costs $60,000 per person. Organizers are also now putting together another trip that will be 21 days, called "Tracing the Trans-Pacific," which will cost $95,000 per person. Flight attendants mark the different eras with what they wear Officials are making the experience as immersive as possible. The entire aircraft is configured with all business class lie-flat seating, and flight attendants are dressed in replicas of the original Pan Am uniforms. "It's such an honor and a privilege to be stepping into this uniform," flight attendant Anna Maria Aevarsdottir said. "We hope we can embrace the grace that they showed America." Each of the flight attendants is representing a different time frame. "I am wearing the galaxy gold and my colleagues are wearing the Super Jet Blue," Aevarsdottir said. The uniforms are something Anita Mathewson knows all about. She was once a flight attendant for Pan Am. She was on hand Tuesday to relive those glory days, but this time as a passenger with her two daughters. "It was a wonderful time in my life. Pan Am was beautiful," said Mathewson, of Norfolk, Connecticut. "Pan Am was about the airline, but it was more about the people. It was the people and the experiences," added Linda Freire, chair of the Pan Am Museum. The trip is a full-circle moment for one family One of the many pilots behind Pan Am's rise to fame was the father of Sheryl Slyter and Louise Koch. "When we were kids, he always brought back stuff from different countries that he visited," Koch said. Now, it's their turn to see those same places their dad flew thousands to and from, since they're passengers on the first commemorative Pan Am jet. "Knowing he was with the flying boats and all the places we are going, that he flew into," Slyter said.
