His first job was with Pan Am as an intern in the late 1970s and would later invent the airline’s first frequent flyer program called WorldPass. Over the course of his career, he has led companies such as Starwood Hotels & Resorts Worldwide, Vail Resorts, and Norwegian Cruise Line. He is also board president of the Pan Am Historical Foundation.

Adjunct Professor at the University Maryland Global Campus and Visiting Lecturer at the University of Westminster and Emirates Aviation University. Frequent passenger on Pan Am, first on a DC-6B in 1958 and last on a Boeing 747 in 1991.

Alfred Gilbert joined Pan Am in 1978 in New York as a Reservation & Rate Desk agent and later moved with Pan Am to San Francisco in 1981. He still resides in the Bay Area today. In 1985, he left Pan Am for a career in travel agency corporate sales, and worked over the course of his career for Thomas Cook, Carlson Wagonlit, BCD, and American Express. Alfred also volunteered for the Global Business Travel Association, serving as Program Director, Vice President, and President of local chapters Bay Area Business Travel Association (BABTA) and Silicon Valley Business Travel Association (SVBTA). Today, Alfred and his Australian Shepherd, Roman, are members of the SFO Wags Brigade, offering animal comfort therapy to travelers and airline employees at SFO International Airport.

Years with Pan Am: 1969-1986, MIA, JFK, HNL, LAX, flight attendant, purser, inflight services recruiter, inflight services instructor, and training center grooming coordinator. Post Pan Am: English as a Second Language teacher for elementary through college levels, self-employed English private language tutor, feature co-author for Jet Wings, the publication of World Wings International, and content coordinator for Pan Am World Press I'm looking forward to highlighting Pan Am's historical accomplishments and telling the remarkable stories of the people who worked there.

His first job was with Pan Am in the 1980s as a customer service agent at the Delhi Airport. Mr. Kumria is an airline executive with over 34 years of experience and has worked for Kingfisher Airlines, United Airlines, and Delta Air Lines.

Upon graduating college, Jennifer joined the Pan Am family as a flight attendant in March 1970. For the next three years, she was based at JFK, IAD, and finally LAX.  After leaving Pan Am, she pursued a 35-year career in public education, serving as a middle school math teacher, administrator, and superintendent. During her administrative career she served as President of the 17,000-member Association of California School Administrators, and established a consulting business that served both the private and public sectors for over 40 years. She reconnected with Pan Am in 2005 after joining World Wings International and has been an enthusiastic supporter of Pan Am ever since.

Pan Am affiliation: Passenger, married into a Pan Am family (wife, father-in-law, and mother-in-law) Years in IT: 1978-2023 After earning a BS and MS in Electrical Engineering at Stanford University, I worked for IBM 15 years, First Data Corporation for 15 years, NCR 12 years, and P97 (Mobile ePayments) for 3 years. I have a strong background in software development in multiple roles, (computer) languages, and industries.

Years with Pan Am: 1972-77, Flight Attendant JFK/HNL I became interested in Pan Am history when I co-wrote a novel, Flying, with fellow Honolulu-based flight attendant Paula Helfrich. I was hooked right away, and I realized how much flying for Pan Am in my early 20s was a life-changing experience. I think all of our flight attendants will tell you that. Since then, I have been co-writing feature articles for Jet Wings Magazine, the publication for World Wings International. Pan Am was everywhere in the 20th Century, so it’s no accident that Henry Luce of Time Magazine referred to the airline as "The Chosen Instrument". There is no end to the stories we can tell, and I look forward helping everyone tell them in the Pan Am World Press.

Years With Pan Am: 1958-1962; Ticket Agent “I come from a Pan Am Family dating back to the mid-1930’s, with four members of my family working for the airline, myself included. I had a long Intelligence career in the Navy and was the Director of Naval Intelligence, Director of the National Security Agency and Deputy Director of Central Intelligence and the CIA. Now mostly retired, doing part-time aviation history, I am convinced there are still fascinating and compelling Pan Am stories yet to be told and the PAMF is the perfect platform to pursue these stories.”

Years with Pan Am: 1971-1982, flight attendant JFK, SEA, BOS (purser), HNL, SFO Post Pan Am: Magazine editor at several home and garden publications in New York and Des Moines; communications writer at The University of Texas at Brownsville (site of an important Pan Am base, 1927-59) and UT Rio Grande Valley. Along the way, I returned to school twice and am now teaching community college adult education classes; I also bravely substitute at local middle schools. I hope these youngsters someday learn about Pan Am and its key role in commercial aviation. I am committed to helping the museum in its mission to preserve Pan Am’s legacy and ensure its unique place in world history.