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Pan Am is Looking to Fly the Skies Again, Even If It's Just Cargo

November 1, 2010 at 9:38 AM | by | Comments (0)

The real Pan Am—Pan American World Airways—shut things down for good in 1991, but there have been several reincarnations of the Pan Am name over the last 20 years or so. We’re now looking at the fourth version of the famous airline, and if things go well planes will be heading to and from Brownsville, Texas sooner rather than later.

There’s no planes or pilots just yet, but Pan American Airways is planning to get things going on November 12 in front of the Pan American Airways Building at the Brownsville South Padre Island International Airport. This airport was one of Pan Am’s buddies during their glory years, and the new carrier is thinking that the airport will work well for their needs as well.

The plans include up to 70 flights each month to plenty of places across Latin America. The first flights, however, will just be filled with cargo and other goodies, but eventually they want to bring passengers back to the skies within official Pan Am-branded airplanes. They’re already talking about flying fans to Rio de Janeiro in advance of the Olympics in 2016.

We really don’t know if things will actually get off the ground, but if you’re going to use the branding of a famous global airline then you’re likely to get some attention—and maybe even some startup cash.

Unfortunately, the famous Pan Am logo won’t be appearing anytime soon, as this fourth generation of Pan Am is developing a different logo. The original is kind of owned by someone else who's been slapping it on the side of freight train cars, so unless they want a lawsuit to compete for their startup capital, we’re not going to see the blue globe anytime soon.

[Photo of Vintage Pan Am: Deanster 1983]

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