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Background: The Post Office Department designated any contract air mail route flown by an airline into/from a foreign country into/from the US as a "Foreign Air Mail" route. The Foreign Air Mail routes became known as FAM's.

FAM-31: FAM-31 was awarded to Chicago and Southern Air Lines.
        Pacific Seaboard Air Lines was organized on June 15, 1933. Flying Bellanca CH-300's PSAL carried passengers on the West Coast from Los Angeles (Grand Central Air Terminal at Glendale) to San Francisco (Mills Field). After the February 1934 cancellation and reinstatement of new commercial air mail carrying contracts over re-designed revised Post Office routes in late June 1934, PSAL began flying "The Valley Level Route" between Chicago IL and New Orleans LA. Appropriately, PSAL changed its name to Chicago & Southern Air Lines in 1935.
        FAM-31 was awarded to Chicago & Southern Air Lines and on November 1, 1946 flying a Douglas DC-4 piloted by MT Benedict, it inaugurated flight service from New Orleans LA to Havana Cuba.

CSAL
Douglas DC-4

F31-1 461101 New Orleans LA-Havana Cuba CSAL MT Benedict $4.50
F31-2 461101 Havana Cuba-New Orleans LA CSAL MT Benedict $7.50

F31-5a 480731 Houston TX-Havana Cuba CSAL Charles Quinn $7.50
F31-5fa 480731 Houston TX-Havana Cuba CSAL Charles Quinn $11.25
F31-5b 480731 Houston TX-Kingston Jamaica CSAL Charles Quinn $11.25
F31-5fb 480731 Houston TX-Kingston Jamaica CSAL Charles Quinn $18.00
F31-5 480731 Houston TX-Caracas Venezuela CSAL Charles Quinn $4.50
F31-5f 480731 Houston TX-Caracas Venezuela CSAL Charles Quinn $12.00
F31-7a 480731 Havana Cuba-Kingston Jamaica CSAL Charles Quinn $18.75
F31-7 480731 Havana Cuba-Caracas Venezuela CSAL Charles Quinn $18.75
F31-6 480801 Havana Cuba-Houston TX CSAL Charles Quinn $7.50
F31-8a 480817 New Orleans LA-Kingston Jamaica CSAL Charles Quinn $15.00
F31-8fa 480817 New Orleans LA-Kingston Jamaica CSAL Charles Quinn $30.00
F31-8 480817 New Orleans LA-Caracas Venezuela CSAL Charles Quinn $15.00
F31-8f 480817 New Orleans LA-Caracas Venezuela CSAL Charles Quinn $30.00

CSAL
Lockheed Constellation

F31-10a 530110 New Orleans LA-Port-au-Prince Haiti CSAL Benjamin Catlin $15.00
F31-10fa 530110 New Orleans LA-Port-au-Prince Haiti CSAL Benjamin Catlin $11.25
F31-10b 530110 New Orleans LA-Ciudad Trujillo Dominican Republic CSAL Benjamin Catlin $15.00
F31-10fb 530110 New Orleans LA-Ciudad Trujillo Dominican Republic CSAL Benjamin Catlin $11.25
F31-10 530110 New Orleans LA-San Juan Puerto Rico CSAL Benjamin Catlin $45.00
F31-10f 530110 New Orleans LA-San Juan Puerto Rico CSAL Benjamin Catlin $11.25
F31-11a 530110 Port-au-Prince Haiti-Ciudad Trujillo Dominican Republic CSAL Benjamin Catlin $30.00
F31-11 530110 Port-au-Prince Haiti-San Juan Puerto Rico CSAL Benjamin Catlin $30.00
F31-12 530110 Ciudad Trujillo Dominican Republic-San Juan Puerto Rico CSAL Benjamin Catlin $33.75
F31-13a 530111 San Juan Puerto Rico-Ciudad Trujillo Dominican Republic CSAL Charles Quinn $135.00
F31-13b 530111 San Juan Puerto Rico-Port-au-Prince Haiti CSAL Charles Quinn $135.00
F31-13 530111 San Juan Puerto Rico-New Orleans LA CSAL Charles Quinn $26.00
F31-14a 530111 Ciudad Trujillo Dominican Republic-Port-au-Prince Haiti CSAL Charles Quinn $30.00
F31-14 530111 Ciudad Trujillo Dominican Republic-New Orleans LA CSAL Charles Quinn $15.00
F31-15 530111 Port-au-Prince Haiti-New Orleans LA CSAL Charles Quinn $15.00

        Chicago & Southern Air Lines was acqiured by Delta Airlines on May 1, 1953.

DA
Douglas DC-7

F31-20 610201 New Orleans LA-Aruba DA R Davidson $3.75
F31-20f 610201 New Orleans LA-Aruba DA R Davidson $3.00
F31-21 610201 Aruba-New Orleans LA DA R Davidson $7.50

DA
Convair 880

F31-25 640428 Kingston Jamaica-San Juan Puerto Rico DA R Davidson $45.00

DA
Douglas DC-9

F31-30 721030 New Orleans LA-Maracaibo Venezuela DA $21.00
F31-30f 721030 New Orleans LA-Maracaibo Venezuela DA $15.00

DA
Lockheed Tristar

F31-35 780430 New Orleans LA-London England DA Glen Darnell & William Gilmer $3.00
F31-35f 780430 New Orleans LA-London England DA Glen Darnell & William Gilmer $3.75
F31-36 780430 Atlanta GA-London England DA Elmer Bennett & Ron Rice $3.00
F31-36f 780430 Atlanta GA-London England DA Elmer Bennett & Ron Rice $3.00

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