Jamaica to NY
Very interesting indeed.
Regarding the flight from MBJ to NY (which I had always thought was by Pan Am) I was wondering if (given the fact that Pan Am partly owned Avianca in those days and many Avianca planes were ex Pan Am inventory), they operated complementary services and probably covered each other so perhaps our flight to NY was in a Pan Am cover flight? This is rather far fetched though.
OTOH if we did travel to NY by Avianca L1049 then the provenence of all the Pan Am goodies are a mistery. Our flight to London from NY was by BOAC B377 as far as I know, but I do not rule out the possibility that we flew on a Pan Am Stratocruiser instead. I wish I had more clues.
One way or another our Stratocuiser flights were at the end of an Era as I have read that BOAC had phased them all out by 1959.