After world war II, AOA, American Overseas Airlines, was the first airline to begin regular land plane flights across the Atlantic, on October 24, 1945.
In January 1946 Pan Am scheduled seven DC-4s a week east from La Guardia Airport, five to London (Hurn) and two to Lisbon. Time to Hurn was 17 hours 40 minutes including stops, and 20 hours 45 minutes to Lisbon.
A Boeing 314 flying boat flew La Guardia to Lisbon once every two weeks in 29 hours 30 minutes.
TWA were to introduce its faster, pressurized Lockheed Constellations. This resulted in Pan Am ordering its own Constellation fleet at $750,000 apiece. Pan Am began transatlantic Constellation flights on January 14, 1946, beating TWA by three weeks.
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