I Suspect Many of You Are Too Young to Know the Majesty of the Name

10/9/25 Men's Journal:

"Long-defunct airline Pan Am is inching towards revival more than three decades after going out of business.

"AVi8 Air Capital and Pan American Global Holdings, which owns the intellectual property rights to the Pan Am brand, have begun the certification process with the FAA. AVi8 announced they have completed a business plan for the brand’s revival efforts."

PanAm was one of the first international airlines, originally serving across the Western Hemisphere.   They expanded into ocean-crossing service with seamless that could, and did, land on water.  If you watched Raiders of the Lost Ark, you have some sense of the romance of travel in an era where transatlantic travel took most of a day and a very few could afford it.

If you watched 2001: A Space Odyssey, you doubtless recall service is aboard PanAm.  In the 1960s, the prospect that PanAm would be an interplanetary service provider was both natural and expected. 

PanAm went under when Libya blew up PanAm 103 over Lockerbie, Scotland in 1988 which i remember.   To see a storied pioneer destroyed by this was very sad.  If they come back from the grave, I will be thrilled.