Servicio Aéreo Panini
Mexico
This airline was founded by an Italian born businessman, Carlos Panini, in 1934. First service was inaugurated two years later between Mexico City and Morelia. Over the years Panini built up a network taking in Guadalajara, Durango and, for a couple of years, Monterrey, initially using Travel Airs, but later Boeing 247Ds, DC-2s and DC-3s. Carlos Panini sold his airline in 1948 and its main routes were transferred to Aerovías Reforma, while shorter routes west and south of Mexico City were operated by a new airline, Aeropostal, until the mid-1950s.
The images below are all ads published in 1945 in a local newspaper in Aguascalientes, one of the stops on Panini's route between Mexico City and Durango. They all show the timetable, abridged or more detailed, of that route. Images were provided by Dagoberto-Guillermo Flores-Lozano, who incidentally first flew in a Travel Air from Aguascalientes to León in 1945. His father, Dagoberto Flores Calderón, was the constructor of several airports in Mexico and Central America between 1946 and 1970, among them Mexico City, Acapulco, Guadalajara, Oaxaca, Guatemala City and San Salvador.
Ad from "El Sol del Centro", Aguascalientes, 1945
(Courtesy of Dagoberto-Guillermo Flores-Lozano)
(Courtesy of Dagoberto-Guillermo Flores-Lozano)
(Courtesy of Dagoberto-Guillermo Flores-Lozano)
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