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A trip honoring the legacy of Pan American World Airways is underway after a chartered jet bearing the historic airlines branding took to the skies earlier in the week.The plane left John F. Kennedy International Airport in New York on Tuesday, kicking off a 12-day trip that came with a roughly $60,000 price tag for its passengers,CBS New York reported.The trip, described as "a Pan Am journey by private air," comes as part of a collaboration between Criterion Travel and Bartelings with licensing from Pan American World Airways.The operators want to give passengers the "opportunity to relive a Golden Age of Travel on a specially curated program" with the Pan Am trip, according to a brochure on Criterion Travels website.GET FOX BUSINESS ON THE GO BY CLICKING HEREThe itinerary for the round-trip journey features stops in locales that were on Pan Ams Southern and Northern transatlantic routes, including Bermuda, Lisbon, Portugal, Marseille, France, London, England and Shannon, Ireland.The brochure for the "Tracing the Transatlantic" trip touts "high-end service, stays at top hotels, fascinating destinations, reminiscences of Pan Ams glory days, and iconic Pan Am design, logos, and identity popping up throughout."JETBLUE PAINTS PLANE WITH SPECIAL DUNKIN' LIVERYThe trip is using a Boeing 757-200 jet with lie-flat business-class seats."Every detail, from the flight deck, to the cabin, has been designed with carehonoring the golden age of travel while reimagining it for todays world," Pan Am Brands said in a Facebook post.Flight attendants working on the trip will don uniforms that recreate the ones worn by Pan Am staff when the airline was still operating, CBS New York reported."Its such an honor and a privilege to be stepping into this uniform," one flight attendant named Anna Maria Aevarsdottir told the outlet. "We hope we can embrace the grace that they showed America."The transatlantic trip was first announced in the summer of last year.CLICK HERE TO READ MORE ON FOX BUSINESS