Pan Am, the fallen jewel of the airline industry may be gearing up for a comeback, but it will have to face some tough challenges in order to be successful.

The Breda-Zappata BZ.308, a sleek Italian four-engine airliner, first flew in 1948. Designed by Filippo Zappata, it blended ...

Pan Am was already more than 30 years old and had become the de facto U.S. flag carrier when this advertisement ran in Aviation Week in March 1958. Credit: AW&ST Archive A bid of 40.5 cents per pound ...

Pan Am World Airways and Holland America Line have announced the launch of the first-ever cruise that will trace original flying Clipper routes across the Caribbean, Mexico and Latin America in 2027.

The collaboration is “a tribute to the golden age of travel.” Luxury airline Pan Am is set to re-emerge for its 100th anniversary celebration — but not in the sky. Pan Am partnered with Holland ...

Passengers disembark from Pan Am’s clipper after its historic first transatlantic flight, from Port Washington near New York City to Lisbon on June 28-29, 1939. The luxurious Boeing 314 flying boat ...

Holland America is launching a monthlong cruise in October 2027, marking a century since Pan Am's first flight. Many or all of the products on this page are from partners who compensate us when you ...

Pan Am’s “flying boat” Clipper planes have all been retired, but Holland America Line will offer the next best thing in 2027. The cruise line is partnering with Pan Am to take guests to destinations ...

AW&ST April 28, 1969: Workmen on crane are removing masking from lettering after painting tail of No. 2 assembly-line Boeing 747 transport in Everett, Wash., plant. Aircraft owned by Pan American ...

An effort to potentially relaunch the Pan Am brand as a “scheduled commercial airline” has gotten more serious, with Avi8 Air Capital recently completing a business plan and claiming to have initiated ...

Long-defunct airline Pan Am is inching towards revival more than three decades after going out of business. AVi8 Air Capital and Pan American Global Holdings, which owns the intellectual property ...

From the 1950s through the 1970s, Pan Am, the now-defunct airline, was the darling of the passenger air travel industry. The brand’s exceptional midcentury styling was so impactful that it remains a ...