Originally Posted by DEarlM

In the summer of 1967 I was to work on an AID project at a university in Srinagar, Kashmir. AID was to pay for my airfare but they were going to do it in India using rupees so I had to fly Pan Am or TWA. I live in Tucson which is almost half way around the world from New Delhi, the difference between a roundtrip fare and a round the world fare was $10 so I paid it and rode Pan Am 1 round the world, flying in 707's. That was the summer of the 6 day war and the Pan Am stop in Beirut was disrupted. We ate dinner in the restaurant in Terehran rather than in the air to accommodate a time delay. Because I had a round the world ticket I stopped in Amsterdam, Vienna on the way and Bangkok, Tokyo on the return. Pan Am made all my hotel reservations other than New Delhi and Srinagar. Because at that time Pan Am could not pickup or drop off domestic passengers I had to fly American from Tucson to JFK and Hughes from SFO to LAX and then to Tucson but all on the same ticket. We were delayed leaving JFK because a service truck accidentally bumped the plane before boarding, dinner in the restaurant instead of on the plane. There were so few on the plane that I had a whole row to myself, they gave me blankets and pillows (in economy class).