In its heyday, Ports of Call was the largest air travel club in the United States, with at one time over 66,000 members.The new controlling interests liquidated the aircraft assets and shut down the airline portion, remaining open as a travel club sans-aircraft.They sold just one of the B707 jetliners, a "combi aircraft" (having been originally built by Boeing to be easily convertible to transport a mix of passengers and freight on the main deck or as a cargo only freighter) for over $4 million.The travel club subsequently was forced to book member trips in blocks of seats on commercial airlines.With the loss of their own aircraft and the ability to fly directly to any desired destination, they were reduced to offering only the multiple connecting flights available commercially.
