The airline's long-standing policy of stimulating the market by continuously reducing fares had resulted in uneconomic yields in the absence of a corresponding reduction in costs.

The airline's market share approached 40 percent.

Over this period, the French airline's market share halved from 9 % to less than 5 % despite having withdrawn from Tegel – Düsseldorf in summer 1964 and concentrated its limited resources on Tegel – Frankfurt and Tegel – Munich to maximise the competitive impact on the latter two routes.

This agreement, under which Lufthansa contracted up to seven of Pan Am's Tegel-based Boeing 727-200s operated by that airline's flightdeck and cabin crews to ply its scheduled routes to Munich, Nuremberg and Stuttgart until mid-1991, also facilitated Pan Am's orderly exit from the internal German air transport market after 40 years ' uninterrupted service as European Union ( EU ) legislation prevented it from participating in the internal air transport market of the EU / European Economic Area ( EEA ) as a non-EU / EEA headquartered carrier.

The airline's initial market of service as of their January 1967 debut was between Orange County Airport ( SNA ) and San Francisco International Airport ( SFO ), a previously unserved routing, using four-engine Lockheed Electra airliners.

The uncertainty over the airline's fate has caused its share of the domestic Indian air transport market go down from approximately 11 % in January 2006 to a reported 8. 5 % in April.

Jetstar Asia had not yet established routes into Indonesia, so the merger is seen as the airline's strategy to get an early entrance into the lucrative Indonesian market.

The airline's experiment of seeking debt financing from the state and local governments was strongly criticized by a very negative local press, a most unusual reaction when an airline increases air service to a market.

However, the airline's foray into the transatlantic scheduled market ended after only seven months in early-January 1983.

A third DC-10 series 10 widebody joined the fleet in April 1974 to maintain the airline's commitments in the ABC flights market.

The airline's market share at the time was a little over 16 % making it the fourth largest airline in India.

The airline's services are aimed to the small and medium Venezuelan producers ; serving from the internal national market, to the exportation needs of perishable products such as fish, shrimp, vegetables, fruits, flowers, etc.

The government of Latvia and Baltijas aviācijas sistēmas Ltd. agreed to invest around 100 million lats in the airline's share capital in proportion to their stakes in airBaltic.

As Continental's share and roles in Air Mike changed, the airline's name became " Continental Air Micronesia.

The starting price for the airline's 51 % share was 51 million euros, decreased from the earlier announced 150 million in order to increase interest.

The launch of code share flights from Kiev to Vilnius ( with flyLAL ), in that year, coincided with the airline's celebration marking 6 million passengers carried within 12 years of operation.

As per the airline's 1980 balance sheet, the paid-up share capital was £ 504, 000.

A fortress hub is an airport where a single airline's share of flights is at or above the monopoly standard of 70 percent of flights in and out of the hub.

The airline's net profits rose 60 percent to HK $ 540 million in 2002, with cargo operations accounting for 30 percent of revenues ; and freight volume increasing nearly 50 percent to 20, 095 tonnes.

When the new republic began its own airline, Air Congo, in June 1961, SABENA held 30 percent of that airline's shares.

On 30 June 2006, Australian Airlines ceased to exist, with the airline's Boeing 767-300s and crew to still provide services from Cairns under the Qantas brand.

The airline's last commercial Boeing 767 flight was on 29 May 2008 and the aircraft was flown to Dublin on 30 May 2008 ; two of the Boeing 767 aircraft are now in storage at Bournemouth Airport.

The airline's relationship with West African Airways ceased on 30 September, and on 1 October it began operating in its own right the domestic and regional flights formerly offered by WAAC.

The airline's first aircraft, and hence the first aircraft to be registered in Ghana since the nation became independent, was a de Havilland Heron delivered on 30 December.

* November 28 – 30 – A Luft Hansa Focke Wulf Fw 200 makes the airline's first flight to Japan, flying non-stop from Berlin to Tokyo via Basra, Iraq ; Karachi in British India ; and Hanoi, French Indochina.

The airline's last flight departed on January 30, 2012.

The airline's last scheduled flight arrived on January 30, 2012.

Laker Airways came up with a 30 % discount offer to encourage tour operators to charter the airline's aircraft during the winter trough and a " time charter ".

The airline's initial use of its first Embraer 170 was on charter services to Taichung, Republic of China ( Taiwan ), on 3 September 2005 ; after it received approval from Taiwan's Mainland Affairs Council on 30 August.

In the new millennium airlines have fallen under intense scrutiny for what many see as abusing Chapter 11 Bankruptcy as a simple tool for escaping labor contracts, usually 30-35 % of an airline's operating cost.

Also in 1954, control of Silver City passed to P & O via General Steam Navigation, which had acquired a 70 % stake in BAS, the airline's parent company.

In March 2000 Virgin Group sold 49 % of the airline's holding company to Singapore Airlines for £ 600. 25 million.

70 % of the airline's services were operated for its parent company, rising to 85 % in the summer season, with the remainder on behalf of some 120 other tour operators.

Following Court Line's takeover of Clarksons the previous year for a nominal £ 1 ( excluding a £ 3. 4 million " subsidy " from the airline's parent company to cover the tour operator's projected 1973 loss ), it purchased the Horizon group's goodwill for £ 600, 000 — including the acquisition of 58 % of Horizon Midlands for £ 400, 000 — from the administrator.

Despite the airline's effort on raising international capacity from the start, domestic traffic made up 80 % of the airline's revenue.

Because of the political crisis, the first half of 2001 saw a 66 % drop in passenger traffic and a 71 % drop in freight, which damaged the airline's revenues.

During 1991, the airline's major shareholder, Nedlloyd, sold its 80 % holding to KLM.

The airline's airfares were to be 30-40 % cheaper than other carriers.

It is the airline's second fatal accident in just 3 weeks, and the third fatal 707 crash of the year.

The same year, the Zinc Corporation sold its shareholding in Silver City to BAS, making the latter the airline's sole owner.

The following were aircraft operated Pan Am and Pan Am Express in March 1990, a year and a half before the airline's collapse:

That year also saw the arrival of the airline's first Boeing 747SP plane, which would later be utilized by government officials, sports teams, The Rolling Stones, and others.

Several of the airline's fleet and routes have been grounded since March 2011 due to the Libyan civil war of the same year.

These carried the bulk of the airline's half-a-million annual charter passengers, which far outnumbered the 66, 000 using its scheduled services each year.

As of that year the airline's annual payroll in Guam was $ 90 million.

Following the introduction in April 1971 of a daily Berlin Tempelhof – Hamburg Fuhlsbüttel – London Heathrow 727 feeder flight that connected with the airline's transatlantic services at the latter airport, Pan Am withdrew its non-stop Tegel – JFK service at the end of the summer timetable, in October of that year.

The airline's financial year is from July to June.

These were the airline's first dedicated freighters ; the first aircraft was delivered and entered service later the same year.

This was followed by entry into service on the airline's routes from Heathrow to Milan, Madrid, Dublin and Stockholm on 1 June that year.

In its 1969-70 financial year, BEA's revenue from ticket sales was £ 126 million resulting in a profit of £ 6. 5 million, almost twice the previous year's and the biggest in the airline's history until that time.

Commercial operations began on 1 March of that year on the airline's Heathrow – Orly route.

These represented approximately half of the airline's total yearly flights to / from Germany and generated profits of £ 1 million per year.

1971 was also the year the airline's last Berlin-based Viscount departed the city.

In the same year the airline's first flight on the Kiev-Athens route under its own code was performed.

The latter was written off in a non-fatal accident in 1969 and replaced the following year by the airline's first jet airliner, a Caravelle built by Sud Aviation in Toulouse.

Revenue for the year doubled, although profits did not increase significantly due to the costs associated with the airline's growth.

At the end of the airline's first year of operation it had made a net profit of US $ 28, 000.

The airline's creditors in November 2002 agreed to forgive half of the company's debts and rescheduled the rest over a three year period.

On 20 July 2006, the media reported on the airline's intentions to increase its routes from 15 to 20 and to establish a second base city by the end of the year.