<font face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="2">Originally posted by SPN Lifer:
PanAm stil had Pacific routes June-1991 when I was bumped from a America West 747 flight out of PHX to a PanAm 747 out of LAX to HNL. It must of been close to the end.</font>
Actually, no.
The sale of its Pacific Routes to United by Pan Am occurred during my tenure as a UA SFORR reservation agent (Feb 85 to Mar 87), most probably in 1986. While PA may have retained LAX-HNL service, if your recollection is accurate, the international Pacific route sale had long been consumated.
Unfortunately for the people of Guam, PA had just dropped HNL-GUM service, so UA did not exercise its authority on that route, and only serviced GUM (and SPN) from KIX (Osaka) briefly starting in 1994.
It was most definitely after the summer of 1985, because I took PA to Tokyo from the East Coast. I remember it distinctly, because one of the engines caught fire over Canada, and ceased to function. We had to dump fuel and make an unscheduled stop in Anchorage for a few hours.
The only other time I've had to do an unscheduled landing was with CO coming back from GRU, where we did an emergency landing in the Amazons.