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306 (Above) Douglas DC-6 of Compania Mexicana de Ayiacion. (Below) The first of J.A.T.'s Convair 340s. WORLD AIRLINE DIRECTORY ... Heron 2s/now in process of delivery).Last year DHY carried 147,693 pas- sengers and flew 7.5m ton-miles.Divisao de Exploracao dos Trans porteg Aeroc, Lourenco MarquesDomestic routes and to S. Rhodesia and South Africa. Fleet: three DC-3s, six Doves, two Hornet Moths, one Dragon Fly, four DragonRapides, two Junkers 52/3ms, one Lockheed 14H and two Lodestars.Divisao de Exploracao dos Trans- portes Aereos. Luanda. Routes u>W. Africa. Fleet: four DC-3s, five Beech I8s and seven Dragon RapidevEast African Airways Corporation, Nairobi. Serving Kenya, Tanganyika.Uganda, Zanzibar, Portuguese East Africa and South Africa. Fleet: tenDC-3s, two DH-89s and one Consul. Last year the company carried 93,427passengers and flew 2,880,610 ton- miles. Eastern Air Lines, Inc., New YorkCity. Operates extensive network in Eastern States and services to MexicoCity and Puerto Rico. E.A.L. carried over 4,750,000 passengers in 1952.Fleet: 29 Super Constellations (16 L.1049Cs and 13 L.1049s), 19 Con-stellation 749s, 60 Martin 4-0-4s, 12 DC-4s. Traffic for 1953: 4,771,167passengers and 25m ton-milee. East-Wot Airline*, Ltd., Tamworth,N.S.VP. Local services with one DC- 3 and two Hudsons.El Al (Israel Airlines Ltd.), Tel Aviv. Transatlantic services via Greece,Italy, Switzerland, France and United Kingdom; European servicesto Turkey, Greece. Italy and Austria and African route to Nairobi andJohannesburg. Fleet: three Constel- lation 049s and four C-46s. In 1953El Al carried 11,733 passengers and flew 10m ton-miles.Ellis Airlines, Ketchikan, Alaska. Local services in Alaska with 7Grumman G-21A amphibians, two Aeronca Sedan and one Cessna 180.Traffic in 1954: 52,465 passengers and 330,056 ton-miles.Empresa Guatemalteca de Aviacion (Aviateca), Guatemala City. Domes-tic services with six DC-3s and one DC-4. The airline, known as Avia-teca, carried 63,312 passengers in 1954. Ethiopian Air Lines, Inc., AddisAbaba. (In association with T.W.A.) Domestic services and to Kenya,Aden, Sudan and Egypt. Fleet: two Convair 240s and eight DC-3s.Far Eastern Airlines, Ltd., Osaka, Japan. New airline formed to operatedomestic and regional services. Fleet: two Marathons, two Doves and threeAuster Autocars. Last year the air- line carried 5,762 passengers and1,716 "sightseers." Federation Air Service, Kuala Lum-pur. (In association with Malayan Airways.) Local services withBeavers. Fiji Airways, Suva. Local serviceswith two D.H.89s and two Drovers. FINNAIR (Aero O./Y), Helsinki.Domestic services and to Sweden, Denmark, Germany and France. Fleet: three Convisi: •-.•.- -mil nineDC-3s. Fiugfelag Islands, H.F., Reykjavik.Domestic services and to United Kingdom, Norway and Denmark.Fleet: two DC-4s, four DC-3s, two Canso amphibians and one Goose.Traffic in 1954: 54,008 passengers and 1.8m ton-miles.Flying Tiger Line — see Slick Airways.Frontier Airlines, Inc., Denver. Local services in Colorado, Montana, Ari-zona, New Mexico, Utah and Wy- oming with 12 DC-3s. Traffic lastyear: 145,579 passengers and 4,292,758 ton-miles.Garuda Indonesian Airways, N.V., Djakarta. Services in Indonesia andto Bangkok, Singapore and Manila with a fleet of 15 DC-3s, 14 Herons,eight Convair 240s and eight Convair 340s. Last year Garuda carried314,423 passengers and flew 20.5m ton-miles. Gibraltar Airways, Ltd., Gibraltar.(In association with B.E.A.) Service Gibraltar-Tangier is operated byB.E.A. Pionairs, which carried 18,650 passengers on this route last year.Grupo del Transportes, Luna. Domestic services in Peru with eightDC-3s, six D.H.89s, three Stinson, one Beechcraft, four PBY-5As andfour Beavers. Guinea Airways, Ltd., Adelaide.Local services with four DC-3s, two Super Autocars and one FairchildArgus. Traffic in 1954: 86,843 pas- sengers and 1,350 short tons offreight. Gull Aviation Co., Ltd., Bahrein.(Associate of B.O.A.C.) Operating Gulf services with four Doves.Hamiata (Sino-Soviet Aviation Cor- DC-4 of Iberia, the Spanish international carrier. potation,, Alma Ata. Operating AlmaAta to Hami with Ll-2s. Hawaiian Airlines, Ltd., Honolulu.Inter-island services with five Con- vair 340s and ten DC-3s. Traffic in1954: 387,887 passengers and 6,071,998 ton-miles.Helicopter Air Service, Inc., Chicago. Mail operations in Chicago area withseven Bell 47s. Hong Kong Airways, Ltd., HongKong. (Owned by Jar dine. Matheson & Co., Ltd.) Operating Hong Kong-Formosa-Okinawa-Tokyo services with DC-4 chartered from NorthwestAirlines. One Viscount 700D has been ordered for delivery in Decem-ber 1957. Last year the airline carried 7,454 passengers and flew 570,000ton-miles. Iberia (Lineas Aereas Espanolas),Madrid. European services, Spanish domestic services and to N. and S,America, Cuba, Mexico, Canary Is. and Spanish West Africa. Fleet:three L.1049Cs, six DC-4s, 16 DC- 3s, one Bristol 170, one Ju52 andone Dragon. Last year Iberia carried 536,179 passengers.Iceland Airways — see Fiugfelag Islands. Icelandic Airlines—see Loftleidir.Indian Airlines Corporation, Cal- cutta. Responsible for the operationof Indian domestic services and ser- vices to Pakistan, Ceylon. Burma,Nepal and Afghanistan. Fleet: 71 DC-3s, 12 Vikings, three DC-4s, fourSentinels, one Beech D18S, one Safir, one Dove, one Avro XIX andone Beech D17S. Eight Herons are on order. In 1954 the Corporationcarried 464,934 passengers and flew 31,695,437 ton-miles.Iranian Airways Company, Teheran. Domestic routes and to India, Pakis-tan and Kuwait. Fleet: four DC-3s, two Doves and two Fairchilds.Iraqi Airways, Baghdad. Domestic services and to Aleppo, Damascusand Cairo. Fleet: four Vikings and one Dove. Three Viscounts are duefor delivery shortly. Last year the airline carried 39,737 passengers andflew 1.4m ton-miles. Island Air Service, Port Clinton.Ohio. Local services with Ford I ri-motors. Japan Air Lines, Tokyo. Domesticand trans-Pacific services. Fleet: six DC-4s, three DC-6Bs, two Herons, FLIGHT, 11 March 1955 two Beech 18s and one Beech II.On order two Comet 2s, one Heron and two DC-6Bs.Japan Helicopter and Aeroplane Transports Co., Tokyo. Domesticservices and powerline patrol with three Herons, two Doves and fourBell 47s. Two DC-3s ordered. The line carried 17,214 passengers lastyear. jngoslovenski Aer Transport, Bel-grade. Domestic services and to Greece, Turkey, Austria, Germanyand France, with 13 DC-3s and one Convair 340; two more Convair 340sare on order. Last year J.A.T. carried 80,079 passengers and flew 2.4m ton-miles. Karhumald Airways, Halli. Finnishdomestic services and to Sweden with three DC-3s. The companycarried 21,855 passengers and flew 400,000 ton-miles in 1954.K.L.M. (Koninklijke Luchtvaart Maatschappij N.V.—Royal DutchAir Lines), The Hague. European West Indies and New Guinea net-works and routes from Europe to North and South America, SouthAfrica, the Middle and Far East and Australia. Fleet: 12 L.1049C SuperConstellations, ten Constellation 749A8, six DC-6Bs, two DC-6As, sixDC-6s, nine DC-4s, 16 DC-3s, 14 Convair 340s, seven Convair 240s,one D.H.89 and one Auster. On order are four L.1049Gs. Last yearK.L.M. carried 682,926 passengers and Sew 128m ton-miles.Korean National Airlines, Pusan. Domestic services with DC-3s andDC-4. Kuwait National Airways, Kuwait.Services in Persian Gulf area with three DC-3s. The airline carried8,966 passengers in 1954. L.A.I. see Linee Aeree Italiene.L.A.V. see Linea Aeropostal Venezo- lana. Lake Central Airlines, Indianapolis.Local services with seven DC-3s. The company is stated to be the onlyairline in the world wholly owned by its employees. Last year it carried79,673 passengers and flew 1,146,751 ton-milefcLeavens Bros. Air Services, Ltd., Toronto. Operating Leamington toPelee Is. with three Cessna Cranes; fleet also includes 20 single-enginedaircraft, used for training, spraying and dusting. Traffic for 1954: 2,653passengers and 1,766 ton-miles. Liberian International Airways,Robertsfield. Local services with three DC-3s and D.H.89s.Lineas Aereas Costarricenses, S.A. San Jose (Subsidiary of P.A.W.A.).Domestic services and to Panama, Mexico, Cuba and U.S.A. Fleet: threeDC-3s and four C-46s. On order: two Convair 340s. In 1954 the companycarried 109,625 passengers and flew 3,936,527 ton-miles.Linea Aerea Taca de Venezuela, Caracas. Domestic services and toColombia with DC-3s. La Nica (Lineas Aereas de Nicaragua,S.A.). Managua. (Associate of P.A.W.A.) Local services withseven DC-3s and one Navion. Linea Aerea Nacional, Chile, San-tiagu. Domestic routes and to Argentina, Uruguay and Bolivia.Fleet; four Martin 2-O-2s, 14 DC-3s, 12 Doves, two Elecfras and oneBonanza. Linea Aeropostal Venezolana, Cara-cas. Domestic routes and to U.S.A., Cuba, Peru, Bermuda. Azores,Portugal, Spain and Italy. Fleet: two Super Constellations, four Con-stellations (two 049, two 749), 22 DC-3s, two Martin 2-O-2s, threeC-46s. On order are one Super Constellation and three Viscounts.Last year Linea Aeropostal Venezo- lana carried 244,167 passengers andflew 50m ton-miles. Lineas Aereas del Estado, BuenosAires. Domestic routes. DC3s and Vikings. Linee Aeree Italiane (S. p. A.),Rome. Operates domestic routes and to Israel, France, Spain, Switzerland,Greece, Turkey, Tunisia, Egypt and the U.S.A. Fleet: three DC-6s, 16DC-3s, four Convair 240s and three DC-6Bs. Lloyd Aero Boliviano (LAB), Cocha-bamba. Domestic services with 11 DC-39 and one Boeing B-17. Onorder: three DC-4s. Traffic for 1954: 144,005 passengers and 7m ton-miles.Loftleidir, H.F., Reykjavik. Operat- ing transatlantic services in associa-tion with Braathens, with one DC-4 Known also as Icelandic Airlines, the
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