Pan Am is a series.
Pan Am is an American period drama television series created by writer Jack Orman . Named for the iconic Pan American World Airways , the series features the pilots and stewardesses of the airline as it operated in the early 1960s at the beginning of the commercial Jet Age . ABC canceled the series on May 11 , 2012 . Unable to reach a deal with Amazon , the producers officially ended the series on June 20 , 2012 .