Pan American Airways First Flight United Nations New York - Hamburg Germany 1985

Description

As a result of Pan American’s proposed sale of its transpacific routes to United Air Lines in early
1985, Pan American canceled an announced San Francisco to Seoul nonstop flight and concentrated on services
to Europe. New nonstop services, using Boeing 747s, were scheduled for April 28, 1985, from New York
to Hamburg and from Los Angeles and Washington, D.C. to Frankfurt, West Germany. Due to a strike all
but the New York to Hamburg services were delayed. The New York to Hamburg flight occurred on
April 28, 1985.
This cover was carried on the inaugural Pan American flight from the United Nations Post Office in New York to Hamburg, Germany (where it was backstamped)
and
is listed in The American Air Mail Catalogue as PA-F71u.