In June 1947 Pan Am started the first scheduled round-the-world airline flight.
In September the weekly DC-4 was scheduled to leave San Francisco at 22:00 Thursday as Flight 1, stopping at Honolulu, Midway, Wake, Guam, Manila, Bangkok and arriving in Calcutta on Monday at 12:45. Here it met Flight 2, a Constellation that had left New York at 23:30 Friday.
The DC-4 returned to San Francisco as Flight 2; the Constellation left Calcutta 13:30 Tuesday, stopped at Karachi, Istanbul, London, Shannon, Gander, and arrived LaGuardia Thursday at 14:55.
A few months later PA 3 took over the Manila route while PA 1 shifted to Tokyo and Shanghai.
All Pan Am round-the-world flights included at least one change of plane until Boeing 707s took over in 1960. PA 1 became daily in 1962-63, making different en route stops on different days of the week. When the Boeing 747 finally replaced all the Boeing 707s in 1971, all stops except Tehran and Karachi, were served daily in both directions.
In 1975-76 Pan Am finally completed the round-the-world trip, New York to New York.
Source: Wikipedia
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