Abstract Pan American Airways, one of the largest international airlines in the US, operated from 1927-1991, and pioneered several features of modern air travel. Founded in 1927, when the US post office requested bids on a contract to deliver mail from Florida to Cuba, Pan American won with the highest bid, but didn’t have the resources they needed to make the flight. They combined with competing airline, Aviation Corporation of the Americas which owned the landing rights in Havana, and this merger...