Editing Pan Am (section)

====Attempts to build a US domestic network====
Since the 1930s, Juan Trippe had coveted domestic routes for Pan Am. Through the late 1950s and early 1960s, and in the mid-1970s, there were talks of merging the airline with a domestic operator such as [[American Airlines]], [[Eastern Air Lines]], [[Trans World Airlines]] or [[United Airlines]].<ref name="PostWar_PanAm_48"/> As rival airlines convinced Congress that Pan Am would use its political clout to monopolize US air routes, the CAB repeatedly denied the airline permission to operate in the US, by growth or by a merger with another airline. Pan Am remained an American carrier operating international routes only (aside from [[Hawaii]] and [[Alaska]]). The last time Pan Am was permitted to merge with another airline prior to the [[Airline Deregulation Act|deregulation]] of the US airline industry was in 1950, when it took over American Overseas Airlines from American Airlines.<ref name="PostWar_PanAm_48"/> After deregulation in 1978, more US domestic airlines began competing with Pan Am internationally.{{sfn|Robinson|1994|pp=154–180}}{{sfn|Ray|1999|p=185}}