Pan American First Flight Honolulu Hawaii - Houston Texas - Round the World 1978

Description

In the 1977-78 Transatlantic Route Proceeding Pan American acquired Houston – previously a gateway
to Mexico and Latin America over Foreign Air Mail Route 5 – as a co-terminal on its transatlantic route. In mid-1978 the
airline took the first step to make this city a major international transportation hub by extending its
round-the-world flights from the previous New York terminus.
This cover was
carried on the June 28, 1978
inaugural Foreign Air Mail Route 14 flight from Honolulu, Hawaii to Houston, Texas
(where it was
backstamped
) and is listed in the Foreign Air Mail (FAM) Section of The American Air Mail Catalogue as F14-281a.