A visit 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 within the week.
The aircraft left John F. Kennedy Worldwide Airport in New York on Tuesday, kicking off a 12-day journey that got here with a roughly $60,000 price ticket for its passengers, CBS New York reported.
The journey, described as “a Pan Am journey by private air,” comes as a part of a collaboration between Criterion Journey and Bartelings with licensing from Pan American World Airways.
The operators need to give passengers the “opportunity to relive a ‘Golden Age of Travel’ on a specially curated program” with the Pan Am journey, in keeping with a brochure on Criterion Journey’s web site.
The itinerary for the round-trip journey options stops in locales that had been on Pan Am’s Southern and Northern transatlantic routes, together with Bermuda, Lisbon, Portugal, Marseille, France, London, England and Shannon, Eire.
The brochure for the “Tracing the Transatlantic” journey 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.”
The journey is utilizing a Boeing 757-200 jet with lie-flat business-class seats.
“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 Manufacturers stated in a Fb publish.
Flight attendants engaged on the journey will don uniforms that recreate those worn by Pan Am workers when the airline was nonetheless working, 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 informed the outlet.
“We hope we can embrace the grace that they showed America.”
The transatlantic journey was first introduced in the summertime of final 12 months.
