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Pan Am's Season One Finale Was Likely Its Final Flight

The future doesn't look very bright for ABC's Pan Am. The show's season one finale attracted only 3.9 million viewers, the lowest in its time slot. So, after spending the past few weeks on the bubble, it looks like Sunday's dismal ratings guarantee the show won't be returning.

Now, with our favorite prime-time travel series kaput, we're hoping the networks will have something new travelers can look forward to in the fall season.

Here's a look at the top 3 most promising pilot shows for armchair adventurers:

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Pan Am's TV Season May Be Over, But Retro Travel Lives On at the Pacific Aviation Museum

The first season of ABC’s retro travel drama Pan Am is long over (as of a few days ago), but you might just be able to get your Pan Am fix out in Hawaii. Take a break from all the swimming, snorkeling and sunbathing and schedule a little time to visit the Pacific Aviation Museum on the island of Oahu. Located within Pearl Harbor on Ford Island, the museum has everything and anything when it comes to historic military and civilian air travel as it applies to the region.

It’s probably worth a visit any day of the week, but what we’re most interested in is the new Pan Am exhibit called “Come Fly With Me.” The exhibit has been up and running since late last year, and the opening coincides with the 75th anniversary of Pan Am’s first flights to and from the islands. There’s plenty of memorabilia on hand—remember, look but don’t touch—from both the airline’s propeller days and the jet age. Museum officials are hoping that the exhibit will continue to evolve as more and more donations are acquired, and the museum is able to gobble up additional Pan Am goodies.

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Seven of Our Favorite Defunct Airlines of Yesteryear

It sure seems like a number of world airlines have been closing up shop recently. Last week, we saw two European carriers cease operations and call it quits. Barcelona-based, Spanair, and the Hungarian flag carrier, Malev, both abruptly stopped flying, stranding passengers all over the continent. Of course, these latest casualties are not the only airlines to make their final approaches.

Let's take a trip down memory lane and reminisce of those airlines we never forget and, secretly, wish we could still fly. These brands never had an iPhone app, some barely had a website, but they will always play a role in the golden age of air travel.

Some of favorite defunct airlines, in no particular order:

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Pan Am Episode 12: Smugglers, Spies and a Surprise Prince

Laura asks for a loan from Amanda

Read our past Pan Am episode recaps here.

Let us first say that this is the episode where the girls have looked their best so far. Kate, Colette and Maggie all attended a fancy foreign party and thus donned killer cocktail dresses, while Laura and Amanda showed off in figure-hugging sweater sets. When will Pan Am inspire a retail collaboration like Mad Men did with Banana Republic? Oh, probably never, but a girl can dream.

Anywho—most of the gang was off to Rome this week, but Bridget (pilot Dean's old/new flame) was conspicuously absent and Ted stayed home to begin playing house with his new fiance, the bi-curious Amanda (played by Ashley Greene). Filling the gap was the newish character Captain Broyles (aka "Sky God"), who we learned last episode moonlights as a smuggler of goods, a fact which comes heavier into play this episode.

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Ashley Greene Films a 'Pan Am' Final Scene on the Streets of New York City

On Monday, Ashley Greene was spotted on set of Pan Am at 1 Lexington Ave in New York City, along with co-star Michael Mosley.

The Twilight star sported a sleek ’60s up-do, long black coat and white gloves while sharing a kiss with Mosley for the scene. Ashley, who plays Mosley's love interest Amanda Mason, can next be seen on Pan Am this Sunday, Jan. 22.

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Pan Am Episode 11: Back in the USSR, with Light Espionage

Broyles crashes Dean's Moscow pep talk

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This episode picks up exactly where we left off last week, with pilot Dean and newly returned stewardess/former MI6 spy Bridget hopping into bed with each other. Bridget still loves Dean and wants to pick up where things left off (with her as his fiance), but Dean has moved on to Colette and would rather just bed Bridget one last time. Maybe she's so irresistible again because he just found out she's a spy, and spies are hot? That's just our guess.

Regardless, Dean and Bridget part that morning in London for good (here's hoping), as Dean reveals again how hurt he's been over all the lies: "So everything I didn't understand was because you were a spy and I was in the dark?"

Ring ring ring! Dean picks up the hotel room phone to discover he's been summoned back to New York for a meeting with Pan Am's chief Juan Trippe. About what? Oh well, after a nice computer-generated panorama of the Pan Am Worldport at JFK, we find out it's all concerning PAA being the first western airline to return to the Soviet Union, and Trippe wants Dean in the captain's seat—the "face of the Jet Age" and whatnot. Wait, we thought that was Laura on the cover of LIFE? Anyways, the plane leaves ASAP.

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Pan Am Episode 10: London, Loathing and a Lie Detector

We highly doubt a stewardess, in their immanculate Pan Am uniform, would sit on the floor of a plane to drink, while surrounded by perfectly fine First Class seats

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Wow. It's been a full month since the last episode of Pan Am and, to tell you the truth, we blanked on where things left off. When a show is in danger of being cancelled, it's not the wisest to postpone new episodes for four weeks because—just as if the show was already cancelled—watchers begin the process of forgetting about it.

Luckily Pan Am is back for more episodes until the network figures out what to do with it, and last night continued the romantic drama and espionage intrigue we've come to expect. With a side of retro air travel.

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'Pan Am' Still Filming Even Though ABC Shelved the Series Until January

Even though ABC has grounded new episodes of Pan Am until January 8, 2012, the show's stars are still busy shooting fresh scenes in New York City.

On Wednesday, December 7, Christina Ricci was spotted filming in a little black retro dress on the Upper East Side. Ricci, who plays Pan Am flight attendant Maggie Ryan in the series, also did some multitasking as she walked, smoked, and enjoyed a diet coke on the way to her trailer to change.

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Pan Am Episode 9: Love, London and a Smoking Gun

Episode 8 recap here.

It's been three weeks since the last new episode of Pan Am. Three weeks! In that time, the biggest chatter hasn't been around their panicky escape from Haiti or how good the show is becoming, but rather is it already cancelled? The answer, for now, is no, but the introduction of Twilight's Ashley Greene and even more love/relationship drama means the show is getting desperate to cling to its on-air life.

London was the destination this week, and everyone's onboard as usual, save for pilot Dean and Frenchie flight attendant Colette. Instead of hopping the Atlantic, Dean leaves his first office stripes at home and dons a denim look to take Colette to meet his parents. So soon?! They've only been flirting and having a casual romance, but we get the feeling that Dean is keen to get himself a wifey.

After all, remember Bridget? Dean barely does, his father really does, but Dean covers the awkwardness during a tender moment with Colette, saying that something about her didn't quite add up (umm her secretive CIA-ness?) and he never brought her to meet the 'rents. Colette buys this, and they get it on in the family barn. Eww.

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ABC's 'Pan Am' Not Canceled...Yet

Pan Am actress Karine Vanasse may have been a bit premature when she hinted that the series had been canceled, but that doesn't mean the show's future is secure.

“Well, we received THE call, #PanAm is only coming back for one more episode after Christmas. But up to the end, we'll give it our all!” Vanasse, who plays the French stewardess Colette on the show, tweeted yesterday.

ABC immediately responded to the tweet in a statement, saying the show has not been canceled:

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Pan Am Episode 8: A Hurricane, Heart Attack, and Haitian Situation

Episode 7 recap here.

Wow. What a change of pace from last episode's relationship issues left and right to this episode's getting down to business. Serious aviation geeks no doubt enjoyed it with all the pilot-talk, but there's no doubt that last night's plotline of an emergency landing in politically unstable Haiti, complete with death and guns and near mutiny of the plane, was edge-of-the-seat stuff. Here's how it all went down:

It's a normal morning at the Pan Am Worldport as the crew prepares for a flight to Caracas, Venezuela, but there's a new guy on the scene. His name is Charles Moore and he's to be the crew's navigator while their regular Indian guy is on vacation. Like every other redblooded male in the show so far, he's immediately drooling over blonde Laura's booty. But speaking o blonde Laura, anyone else notice she's not so platinum blonde anymore?

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Pan Am Episode 7: Communism and Racism Have No Place in the Skies

Laura and Joe in the midst of sexual tension

As promised in the last episode of Pan Am, there's plenty more CIA spy drama and romance to go around, but as it is with people constantly on the go (and potentially wrapped up in everything from Communism to racism), the ending is bittersweet.

This episode sees the gang heading first from Madrid to New York on a special chartered flight to bring servicemen (sailors!) home to the US. Next, they're all off on Pan Am Flight 2, one of the airline's infamous around-the-world flights. But first—Madrid.

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