Pan Am: From Largest International Air Carrier to Ruin | Prism of the Past
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Pan Am's Expansion to Latin America
Congress passed the Foreign Air Mail Act on March 8, 1928 to regulate this international service. The US government actually awarded Pan Am every foreign air mail route for which bids were invited. In 1939, after six years of flying businessmen, diplomats, officers, and celebrities across the Pacific, the company now flew giant Boeing-made clippers to Europe. They made headlines in 1942 when their ship, the Pacific clipper, completed the first ever circumnavigation of the globe by a commercial airliner. A year later he became the first president to travel by airplane on U.S. official business.
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