PAN AM Last Flight Frankfurt- Berlin

[@larryhoudini3331]

Both my father and brother were pilots with Pan Am, so I love watching these videos. Thanks for the memories.

[@robertworm6469]

What a fantastic document. Born in 1986, I am a little bit too young for having concrete memories of Pan Am. My first memories of airports and planes start in 1990, when we were visiting Berlin-Tegel and I can remember vague impressions of our first flight to the USA. Maybe it was with Pan Am, but even my mother cannot recall it anymore. At the age of five, I began to comprehend what airports and airplanes are good for. Very familliar: The high pitched sound and the loud thundering of old turbofan engines.

[@dewayneblue1834]

Pan Am, the legendary airline on a legendary Cold War route, the inner-german Berlin route. Great video, thanks!

[@Bellasie1]

And weirdly enough, PAA didn't survive the DDR longer than 4 months.

[@Matthudson2]

Very mixed feelings stumbling upon this video. I worked for Pan Am in Frankfurt during this time. How nice to see so many of my colleagues! Hallo, Connie!

[@amath-dr7uk]

+Matthudson2 I saw these PANAM B727 s at several German airports on my flights with Lufthansa in the 1980s..didn t PANAM Flight 01,round-the world-B747 operate out of Frankfurt (SFO-JFK-LHR-FRA-DEL/BOM-BKK-HKG-NRT-SFO)??

[@Matthudson2]

+am1966ath That's possible. But I didn't start until the late 80's. By that time, Pan Am had sold the Pacific operation to United. So, Pan Am 1 no longer flew around the world when I worked there. only flights to DEL/BOM, NBO, RUH/JED I think they had a flight to JNB, but it was removed before I started.

[@amath-dr7uk]

Matthudson2 The slow demise of PANAM this truly global airline was sad

[@Matthudson2]

I couldn't agree more!

[@strafrag1]

Hi. Yes, nice video but sad. I worked for EA and LH. I flew PA FRA-TXL-FRA in '87. Cheers!

[@lihiong]

I`m getting goose bump watching this video. all the great memories of my beautiful years in IGS with PanAm

[@DansJets]

I miss Clipper 001 and Clipper 002 Round The World with the 747. It was always great seeing Pan Am's presence at the great LAX. What a sight to always see, Pan Am's 747 fleet and TWA's 747 fleet. They were the top carriers in the world.

[@strafrag1]

Yes, those RTW flights were great. I flew PA001 LHR-JFK. Famous flights for sure.

[@Yecora26]

PanAm, gone but not forgotten!

[@marthiuxag8745]

Yes

[@sinceIamborntoseeyou]

Wow, this is an astounding video record! For many years while I used Frankfurt Airport I just wanted to make sure where the gate that I used to fly Pan Am for Tegel in 1980s. So happy to learn that it was just B41 as I remembered. So may be the same with everyone, this helps me recall those golden days in my memory. Thanks again for the great video! You made my day!!

[@Mumie12345]

Schade! Pan Am war ein Teil der amerikanischen Fluggeschichte.

[@user-fl2yo5pk9t]

My great grandfather was so fascinated by Pan Am that he named my aunt after the airline! (Nicknamed)

[@mikeyweaselwhipper3074]

i took these shuttle flights so often in the 80's, before my own employer- TWA- picked up the route. it broke my heart to see pan am go.

[@d.pan83]

A 1:40 che simpatico quell'uomo!

[@ruthyaircooled]

ich wünschte ich hätte die Pan Am auch noch am Frankfurt Airport erlebt.

[@turkiye25]

Mein Papa hat auch für Pan am gearbeitet 🥺er war so traurig heute noch wenn er bei Filme Pan am sieht nimmt tief Luft ein und sagt immer den gleichen Spruch war gute Firma / er hat noch sein Dienst Ausweis wo er angefangen hat 1978-1990🥺🥺🥺

[@martinmaldonado6038]

What a great group of professionals. I was a Pan Am employee in Miami.

[@banchnotok]

What was inside these boxes they distributed?

[@Nigelsmith79]

Banch playing cards

[@reinerhamberger1216]

Es tat sehr weh der letzte FLUG der PAN AM - Number "ONE" Airlines,Inc. never forgotten. Hatte den vorletzten Flug mit PAN AM nach MIAMI-Florida in den wohlverdienten Urlaub gemacht und kam mit "Delta-Airlines" nach FRANKFURT zurück

[@jim7836]

even pan am is gone but it great legacy will live on forever

[@corneliaffm]

Yes! PanAm, Air France and British Airways had traffic rights from any West- German City into Berlin, Lufthansa didn't. With the falling of the wall and the reunion of East and West Germany PanAm lost these rights. We had, starting 6 a.m. until 10 p.m. almost every hour one flight.

[@clausstimpfig3803]

und T.W,A,

[@erik_griswold]

claus stimpfig And “Air Berlin USA”.

[@lockervomhocker9795]

my last flight with PanAm to berlin was in june 1990. we had a lot of turbulences, cause the plane was not allowed to fly higher. The pilot said, that the airspace above was soviet (military) airspace.

[@EpicThe112]

SQ 025 starts from New York JFK Frankfurt Am Main Bangkok Don Muang Final Destination Royal Air Force Base Singapore Changi. Does anyone know if Pan Am A310s did JFK Frankfurt Am Main/München Riem West Berlin or not?

[@SHUJAHUNK]

It must have been a heart breaking moment for the employees of PAN AM at Berlin airport & all around the world to see their organization being shutdown specially for those who spent their lifetime for PAN AM . It looked as if someone you love is dying to death slowly in front of you . It was very painful to see when when plane left & the ground staff started packing up their belongings at airport some folks PAN AM folks in London & New york really burst into tears in when they saw the last

[@Bellasie1]

Working for Pan Am certainly was a privilege, and they knew the party was over, too.

[@mikele444]

Great video! I understand: the Pan Am had a service of domestic flights in Germany? or maybe this flight probably came from the U.S. and did two destinations in Germany? Thanks!

[@banchnotok]

They had a hub in FRA serving ATH, IST, BOM, DEL, KHI, NBO, RUH, ARN, HEL, ZRH, LHR, LED, SVO, OTP, BUD, WAW, DBV, ZAG, BEG, hourly Berlin Plus JFK IAD LAX SFO MIA MCO

[@erik_griswold]

Service to airports in Berlin could only be offered by USA, French or British (and I suppose Soviet, but they flew to SXF) carriers under the terms of the occupation of Berlin from 1945 to 1990.

[@yb6.]

1:43 Larry birds bro

[@AgentPepsi1]

I always wanted to fly on Pan AM... I need a time machine :D

[@fabriciopelaezgarcia5293]

Breathaking video. There will never be an other equal airline as Pan Am.

[@DavidBerquist334]

do you know who bought the 727s from panam 727 is my favorite plane

[@swvwest]

The airplane shown was Pan Am Clipper Quick Step (Tail No. N4749). It was delivered new from Boeing to National Airlines on April 26, 1968. It was transferred to Pan Am on July 1, 1980 after Pan Am bought National. It went on to Braniff International Airlines 01/10/1992. After Braniff it was scrapped, I couldn’t find exact date of the scrapping.

[@Jc22ny]

Very Nice! Thanks for uploading

[@giddi2000]

I understand the PAN AM also flew to nairobi,kenya..it was a world wide Airline

[@kenprice1961]

Worked at Pan Am mid 60's, Pan Am stews were a snooty bunch of bimbos.

[@strafrag1]

That was a prestigious job back then.

[@WhiteActivist]

My dad was a Chief Pilot for Pan Am. Before he died, and when I was old enough to understand, he told me about F'n so many hot stewardesses. He told me they were girls who wanted sex but without family and friends "back home" who could find out. It was a "swingers club" when they were at their destination. He once told me he did 3 of them in one day while in Rio.

[@williampitsker1961]

Talk about tearful nostalgia. I might have been there. I did fly one of the last Pan Am flights from the Berlin base, that being a continuation of an over the Atlantic flight from New York to Paris, and then on to Tel Aviv, in March of 1991. When the base closed, I was transferred to JFK to fly the A-310. It all ended on 4 December, 1991 - one year, one month, one week, and one day after this FRA-TXL flight. How I do miss it. There was nothing to compare in the industry.

[@johnreds1384]

Hello William. Did you ever fly the San Jose Costa Rica (SJO) to Miami route on the a310 or a300?

[@turkishmen1566]

Sehr Schön

[@corneliaffm]

3 davon gibt es leider schon nicht mehr...

[@pump066]

The plane here was clearly Boeing 727.200

[@willwallace787]

great video, greetings from Colombia!!

[@FernandoChecon]

Nice video...but I think this is soo sad.....I cant imagine what pass in the head of this workers at that moment...

[@erik_griswold]

FernandoChecon Many of them were offered jobs with Lufthansa who took over the routes.

[@milanharmacek5842]

After all those years I finally understand why thal Great Pan Am has bankrupted. This was really Nr. 1 global airline, but without local u.s. connections. This is the reason off the fall of Pan Am..

[@erik_griswold]

Milan Harmáček When they bought a “domestic” airline to do that, they strangely chose one with a hub in Miami (National). Meanwhile of the other international carriers, TWA bought Ozark which had a hub in St. Louis, and Northwest bought Republic with hubs in Memphis and Detroit.

[@Bellasie1]

@@erik_griswold None of them exists any longer.

[@Bellasie1]

No. It thrived as an international airline and should have remained that special, exclusively international airline that is fondly remembered. It didn't survive for other reasons. In fact, adding domestic routes was a very bad decision. Unprofitable routes, political bias in favor of its closest competitor TWA, and a horrific mid-air terrorist attack all contributed to Pan Am's demise. Had the leaders considered it important to save this airline as much as the common people, it would however still be in business.

[@erik_griswold]

@@Bellasie1 TWA survives as American while Northwest is now Delta. Both TWA and NWA had rights to fly international flights like PanAm had. No other carriers had the ability to do so until deregulation (not counting Canadian and Caribbean/Latin America)

[@cantrockthis]

Great video. Such nostalgia..

[@taurelas]

End of the 80s

[@katyu16]

Ich WEINE!!

[@Exodon2020]

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