Sauce for the Goose...

Said Pan Am sweetly: what is sauce for the goose is also mighty tasty when applied to the gander. So last week Pan Am, which has had to endure unwonted competition from U.S. domestic lines on its foreign routes for a year, got down to brass tacks on its 18-month-old application to compete within the U.S.

In a 351-page exhibit weighing almost seven pounds, Pan Am set forth to the Civil Aeronautics Board its claims to four coast-to-coast routes and five main north-&-south domestic routes. Pan Am's main argument: domestic lines can now offer passage to foreign points from interior U.S. cities. If Pan Am can land only at gateway coastal cities, it will not be able to compete on equal terms.

With Boeing Stratocruisers, which it expects to get shortly after next Jan. 1, Pan Am promised to bring back transcontinental sleeper planes.

Even more attractive were the Pan Am promises based on the Republic Rainbow, a 46-passenger, 400-mile-an-hour-plus transport whose military prototype is now in the air (see cut): 5 1/2-hour coast-to-coast service (best time now: almost ten hours); 2 1/2-hour flights between New York and Miami (present time: 5 1/2 hours). Pan Am does not expect to get the first of the six Rainbows ordered ($1,200,000 apiece) till late next year. But it may take the slow-moving CAB that long to answer Pan Am's shrewd request.

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