| 1927 |
First American airline to operate a permanent
international air service  |
| 1927 |
First American airline to operate land airplanes
over water on a regularly scheduled basis |
| 1927 |
First American airline to operate multi-engine
aircraft permanently in scheduled service |
| 1927 |
Service Started: Key West, Havana |
| 1928 |
First American airline to use radio communications |
| 1928 |
First American airline to carry emergency lifesaving
equipment |
| 1928 |
First American airline to use multiple flight crews |
| 1928 |
First American airline to develop an airport and
airways traffic control system |
| 1928 |
First American airline to to order and purchase
aircraft built to its own specifications, the
Sikorsky S-38 |
| 1928 |
Service Started: Miami |
| 1929 |
First American airline to to employ cabin attendants
and serve meals aloft |
| 1929 |
First airline to develop and use instrument flight
techniques |
| 1929 |
First American airline to develop a complete
aviation weather service |
| 1929 |
Service Started: Nassau, Port of Spain, Santo
Domingo, St.Thomas, Guatemala City, Mexico City,
Buenos Aires, Montevideo, Santiago |
| 1930 |
First American airline to offer international air
express service |
| 1930 |
Service Started: St. Lucia, Caracas, Maracaibo,
Rio de Janeiro |
| 1931 |
First American airline to develop and operate four
engine flying boats |
| 1932 |
First airline to sell all-expense international air
tours |
| 1932 |
Service Started: Port-Au-Prince |
| 1933 |
Service Started: Tampa |
| 1934 |
Service Started: Orlando, Los Angeles |
| 1935 |
First airline to develop and employ long range
weather forecasting |
| 1935 |
First American airline to install facilities for
heating food aboard an aircraft |
| 1935 |
First airline to operate scheduled transpacific
passenger and mail service |
| 1935 |
Service Started: San Francisco, Honolulu |
| 1937 |
Service Started: New York, Bermuda, Sao Paulo |
| 1939 |
First airline to operate scheduled transatlantic
passenger and mail service |
| 1940 |
Service Started: Seattle/Tacoma |
| 1942 |
First airline to complete a round-the-world flight |
| 1942 |
First airline to operate international service with
all-cargo aircraft |
| 1942 |
Service Started: Monrovia |
| 1943 |
Service Started: Dakar |
| 1944 |
First airline to propose a plan for low cost, mass
transportation on a worldwide basis |
| 1945 |
First airline to use high-speed commercial land
planes on a transatlantic route, the Douglas DC-4 |
| 1945 |
Service Started: Philadelphia, London, Shannon |
| 1946 |
First airline to operate non-stop scheduled service
between Miami and New York (National) |
| 1946 |
First American airline to install GCA, Ground
Controlled Approach, in overseas operations |
| 1946 |
Service Started: Houston, Berlin, Brussels,
Frankfurt, Prague |
| 1947 |
First airline to operate a scheduled round-the-world
service |
| 1947 |
Service Started: Boston, Washington, Istanbul,
Karachi |
| 1948 |
First airline to provide tourist-class service
outside the continental US |
| 1948 |
Service Started: Munich, Delhi |
| 1949 |
Pan Am is the launch customer for Boeing's B-377
Stratocruiser |
| 1949 |
Service Started: St.Croix, Nice |
| 1950 |
First airline with low-cost day and night coach
service on the East Coast (National) |
| 1950 |
First commercial airline to enter the Korean airlift
|
| 1950 |
Service Started: Amsterdam, Hamburg, Helsinki,
Oslo, Paris,Stockholm |
| 1951 |
Service Started: Rome |
| 1952 |
First airline to use aircraft built specifically for
tourist-class service in transatlantic service, the
Douglas DC-6B |
| 1954 |
Service Started: Chicago, Detroit, Nuremburg |
| 1955 |
Pan Am specifies and orders the Boeing 707 and
Douglas DC-8 |
| 1957 |
Service Started: Barbados |
| 1958 |
Taking advantage of jets, Pan Am introduces Economy
fares |
| 1958 |
Pan Am's Boeing 707 Clipper America starts the jet
age with the first scheduled transatlantic service
in American built jets |
| 1958 |
First airline to operate jets with the continental
US (National) |
| 1959 |
First airline to operate a scheduled round-the-world
jet service |
| 1960 |
Pan Am initiates first Douglas DC-8 jet service |
| 1961 |
First airline to offer a worldwide marketing service
to shippers and importers around the world |
| 1961 |
Service Started: Lagos |
| 1962 |
First airline to operate 100,000 transatlantic
flights |
| 1962 |
First airline to develop a global computer
reservation systems (PANAMAC) |
| 1962 |
Service Started: St.Maarten |
| 1963 |
First airline to operate the Boeing 707-321C jet
freighter |
| 1963 |
Service Started: Belgrade |
| 1964 |
First all-jet airline (National) |
| 1964 |
First airline to relay inflight messages via
satellite |
| 1965 |
First airline to operate round the world jet
freighter service |
| 1965 |
Service Started: Nairobi |
| 1966 |
Pan Am specifies and orders the Boeing 747 |
| 1967 |
First airline to make a fully automatic approach and
landing in scheduled service |
| 1968 |
First airline to transmit engine data and position
information from the aircraft to the ground using a
air-ground data link system |
| 1968 |
First American airline to operate scheduled service
in Russian airspace |
| 1968 |
Service Started: Moscow |
| 1969 |
First airline to receive FAA approval for regular
use of the Carousel IV inertial navigation system |
| 1969 |
First airline to install onboard computers for
in-flight engine performance analysis and reporting |
| 1970 |
First airline to operate the Boeing 747 in regular
scheduled service |
| 1970 |
First airline with scheduled non-stop Miami-London
service (National) |
| 1970 |
First airline to operate production-model air-ground
satellite communications system |
| 1970 |
First airline to test and operate Data-Link
automated aircraft identification and position
system |
| 1971 |
First airline to open a major maintenance facility
designed specifically for jumbo jets (JFK JetCenter)
|
| 1971 |
First airline to operate round-the-world service
with the Boeing 747 |
| 1971 |
Service Started: Bucharest, Warsaw |
| 1972 |
First airline to operate FAA-certified Visual
Approach Monitor heads-up pilot display system |
| 1972 |
Pan Am builds the world's largest single air
terminal, JFK WorldPort |
| 1972 |
First airline to employ electronic passenger
security screening equipment |
| 1973 |
First airline to offer upper deck dining service on
the 747 |
| 1973 |
First airline to order the Boeing 747SP |
| 1974 |
First airline to install and operate FAA-certified
fleetwide Ground Proximity Warning System |
| 1975 |
First airline to create major Travel Agent incentive
plan |
| 1975 |
Service Started: Dallas/Ft.Worth, Budapest |
| 1976 |
First airline to operate the Boeing 747SP |
| 1976 |
Record setting round-the-world revenue flight with
Boeing 747SP |
| 1977 |
First revenue round-the-world Polar flight -
celebrating Pan Am's 50th anniversary |
| 1977 |
Service Started: Zurich |
| 1978 |
First airline to offer scheduled non-stop
Miami-Paris service (National) |
| 1978 |
World's first round-the-world under $1000 excursion
fare |
| 1978 |
First airline to introduce a new, separate class of
service for business and full-fare economy
passengers, Clipper Class |
| 1978 |
Service Started: Bombay |
| 1980 |
First airline to operate aircraft with fuel-saving
"active controls", the Lockheed L1011-500 |
| 1980 |
Service Started: Dubai |
| 1981 |
First American airline to re-establish scheduled
service to People's Republic of China |
| 1981 |
Service Started: Beijing, Shanghai |
| 1982 |
Service Started: Pittsburgh, Cleveland, Kansas
City, Freeport, Milan |
| 1983 |
Service Started: Charlotte, Nashville,
Raleigh/Durham, Cincinnati, Indianapolis,
Minneapolis/St.Paul, Austin, San Antonio, St.Kitts,
Dubrovnik, Geneva, Zagreb |
| 1985 |
Service Started: Grand Turk, Providenciales,
Athens, Tel Aviv |
| 1986 |
Service Started: Krakow, St.Petersburg |
