Legendary airline reborn as Pan Am Air Bridge; inaugural flight to Key West launched Friday.MIAMI--(BUSINESS WIRE)--March 1, 1996--Chalk's International Airlines, the legendary airline, in continuous operation since 1919, has been acquired by new owners and renamed the "Pan Am Air Bridge." The newly renamed airline started service Friday, flying its first flight from Watson Island Watson Island may refer to:
Paradise Island is an island in the Bahamas, north of the island of New Providence which is home to (Nassau). It is best known for the sprawling 'Vegas-by-the-sea resort' Atlantis. and Bimini. The seaplane seaplane, airplane designed to take off from and alight on water. The two most common types are the floatplane, whose fuselage is supported by struts attached to two or more pontoon floats, and the flying boat, whose boat-hull fuselage is constructed with the operation has been acquired by a partnership group including Miami entrepreneur Craig Robins, founder of the DACRA DACRA Durango Area Chamber Resort Association (Durango, CO) companies and the Bridge Network; aviation veteran Chuck Slagle, founder, president and chief executive officer of Seaborne sea·borne adj. 1. Conveyed by sea; transported by ship. 2. Carried on or over the sea. seaborne Adjective 1. carried on or by the sea 2. Aviation Inc., an Alaska-based company with seaplane operations in Alaska and the Virgin Islands; and Pan Am Corp., an affiliate of Pan American World Airways Pan American World Airways, commonly known as Pan Am, was the principal international airline of the United States from the 1930s until its collapse in 1991. Founded as a seaplane service out of Key West, Florida, the airline became a major company credited with many , which will launch wide-body jet service this summer. Charles E. Cobb Jr. is chairman of the board and Martin R. Shugrue is president and chief executive officer of Pan Am Corp. Pan Am Air Bridge will operate as a separate and independent company affiliated with and owned in part by Pan Am. Slagle has been appointed president and chief executive officer of Pan Am Air Bridge and Cobb is the chairman of the advisory board. "Pan Am Air Bridge will create the nostalgia of the glamorous `Clipper Ship' era, made famous by Pan Am seaplanes in the 1930's," said Slagle. "We are pleased that we are able to use the Pan Am name to bring this unique flying experience to today's leisure travelers," he said. Pan Am Air Bridge plans to add flights to special resort destinations in Florida, the Bahamas and the Turks and Caicos Islands Turks and Caicos Islands (kī`kōs), dependency of Great Britain (2005 est. pop. 20,600), 166 sq mi (430 sq km), West Indies. There are more than 30 cays and islands, of which only six are inhabited. within 24 months. The airline will fly 17-passenger Grumman Mallard flying boats which have been modernized with turbo prop engines. Turbo-prop service is also planned to appropriate regional destinations. CONTACT: Pan Am Air Bridge, Miami Craig Robins, 305/531-8700 or Gordon Sloan Diaz-Balart, Coral Gables, Fla. Seth Gordon or Lea Sloan, 305/447-8822 |
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