The first commercial passenger trans-Atlantic service was by Pan Am in 1939 between NYC & this French port
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any other steamship route; about 180,000 passengers crossed the Atlantic in first 
... on a transatlantic airline service, and refused to grant landing rights in Britain... [DOC] [TLE] The Beginnings of Commercial Transatlantic Service [PAR] Pan Am's Yankee Clipper made its first flight across the mid-Atlantic on March 26, 
... focused more on the South Atlantic, where a number of French, German, and ... 
first transatlantic passenger service on June 28, 1939, between New York and... [DOC] [TLE] Transatlantic Air Commerce: CQR [PAR] Before Pan American Airways can begin scheduled commercial service, ... Of 
equal importance to the maintenance of regular transatlantic air service is the 
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