 The first passenger flight left Alameda on October 21, 1936.The fare from San Francisco to Manila or Hong Kong in 1937 was $950 one way (about $ in 2019) and $1,710 round trip.On August 6, 1937 Juan Trippe accepted United States aviation's highest annual prize, the Collier Trophy, on behalf of PAA from President Franklin D. Roosevelt for the company's "establishment of the transpacific airline and the successful execution of extended overwater navigation and the regular operations thereof."