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FLIGHT, 11 March 1955 307 WORLD AIRLINE DIRECTORY . . . company carried 11,000 passengerslast year. Loide Aero Nackmal, S.A., Rio deJaneiro. Domestic services with 15 C-46s and three DC-4s; traffic figuresfor last year are 65,515 passengers and 9.4m ton-miles.Los Angeles Airways, lac, Los Angeles. Helicopter mail services inl.os Angeles area with three S-51s and three S-55s. LOT (Polskie Linie Lotnicze), War-saw. Domestic routes and to Eastern Europe and Belgium, France, Den-mark and Sweden. Il-12s and DC-3s. Total number of passengerscarried in 1953 was 112,900. Middle East Airlines Co., Beirut.(Associated with P.A.W.A.) Ser- vices in Near East with seven DC-3s.Traffic for 1954: 48,450 passengers and 2,801,394 ton-miles.Misrair S.A.E., Cairo. Domestic ser- vices and to Sudan, Aden, SaudiArabia, Libya, Tunisia, Syria, Iraq, Lebanon, and Persian Gulf. Fleet:Seven Vikings, three Languedocs and one Beechcraft; on order, threeViscounts. Traffic in 1954: 64,539 passengers and 3.1m ton-miles.Mohawk Airlines, Inc., Ithaca, N.Y. Local services with 11 DC-3s; threeConvair 240s will be introduced on July 1st. Last year Mohawk carried222,148 passengers and flew 3,981,627 ton-miles. National Airlines, Inc., Miami.Operating network through the Eastern States from New York southto Miami and Havana. Services operate west to New Orleans AlsoMiami area helicopter services. Fleet: four DC-7s, eight DC-6Bs,four DC-6s, 12 Convair 340s, ten Lodestars and one S-55. Last yearNational carried 1,074,704 passengers Northern Consolidated Airlines, Inc.,Anchorage. Local services with three DC-3s, three Norsemen and 15Cessna T.50 Bushmasters. Traffic in 1954: 11,451 passengers and 923,336ton-miles Northern Wings, Ltd., Seven Islands.Local services with Norsemen, An- son, Canso and Beechcraft.Northwest Airlines, Inc., St. Paul, Minnesota. Transcontinental U.S.network and to Honolulu, Alaska, Japan, Korea, Formosa, Hongkongand Manila. Fleet: ten Stratocruisers, seven DC-6Bs, 19 DC-4s and sevenDC-3s. The airline, which operates as Northwest Orient Airlines, is nowtaking delivery of four L.1049G Super Constellations. Last year it carried1,200,000 passengers and flew 84,525,111 ton-miles.Orient Airways, Ltd., Karachi. Domestic services and to India andBurma. Fleet: two Convair 240s and 11 DC-3s. In 1954 the companycarried 66,636 passengers and flew 7.952.525 ton-milesOstermans Aero A.B., Stockholm. Scheduled mail services in Stock-holm archipelago in winter with seven Bell 47s (three more are onorder), one S-55 and four Seabees. Hours flown by the helicopters in1954 totalled 4,260. Oxark Air Lines, Inc., St. Louis, Mo.Local services in Arkansas, Indiana, Iowa, Oklahoma, Kentucky, Kansas,Missouri, Illinois and Tennessee. Fleet: 13 DC-3s. Pacific Northern Airlines, Seattle.Operating in Alaska and between U.S.A. and Alaska. Fleet: fourDC-3s and five DC-4s. Pacific Western Airlines, Ltd., Van-couver. Services in British Colum- bia with two Mallards, six Beavers, four Norseman, two Fairchild 71s,two Junkers W33, three Cessna 180s, one Cessna 170, one Cessna 120, oneWidgeon, one Beechcraft A18A and two Beechcraft F17s. In 1954 thecompany carried 29,598 passengers and flew 16,686 ton-miles.Pakistan International Airlines, Karachi. Services to London andDelhi with three L.1049C Super Constellations. The Airline beganoperations in June 1954, and flew 2,288,089 ton-miles and carried11,902 passengers in that year. Panair do Brasil, Rio de Janeiro.Domestic network of 60,000 miles and transatlantic services: Fleet: 14DC-3s, 11 Constellation O49s and five Canso amphibians. Comets are onorder. Last year Panair carried 360,000 passengers and flew27,878,232 ton-miles. Pan American-Grace Airways, Inc.,New York City. (Associate of Pan American World Airways.) Routenetwork in South America extending north to Miami. Fleet: four DouglasDC-6BS, four DC-6s, three DC-4s and six DC-3s. On order: fiveDouglas DC-7s. In 1954 the com- pany carried 133,848 passengers andflew 19,864,118 ton-miles. Pan American World Airways, Inc.,New York City. Operating a world- wide network with over 60,000 milesof unduplicated routes Fleet: 27 Stratocruisers, 45 DC-6Bs, 27 DC-4s.seven DC-3s, eight Constellations and 13 Convair 240s. On order: sevenDC-7Bs and three Comet 3s. In 1953 (no figures for last year available) P.A.A. carried 1,643,633 pas- sengers and flew 250m ton-miles.Philippine Air Lines, Inc., Manila Domestic routes and to Hongkongand B^ngko'c with DC-3s and Con- vair 340s. Piedmont Airlines, Winston Salem,N. Carolina. Local services in N. and S. Carolina, Kentucky, Ohio,Tennessee, Virginia and West Vir- ginia. Fleet: 15 DC-3s. Last yearPiedmont carried 308,893 passengers and flew 6,339,040 ton-miles.Pioneer Air Lines, Inc., Dallas. Local services in Texas and NewMexico with 10 DC-3s Primeras Lineas Uruguayas de Navi-gacion Aerea, Montevideo. Domestic services with DC-3s and Herons.Qantas Empire Airways, Ltd., Syd- ney. Australia's international air-line operating domestic and Pacific regional services in addition to itsWallaby service to South Africa and routes to the Philippines, Hongkongand Japan. In 1954 Q.E.A. took over the operation of the B.C.P.A. trans-Pacific route to Vancouver. Fleet: ten L.1049C Super Constellations,four Constellation 749As, five DC-4s, eight DC-3s, three Sandringhams,two Catalinas, three Beavers and one Drover; on order, one Beaver. Lastyear Qantas carried 118,513 pas- sengers and flew 46,454,694 ton-miles. Qnebecair, Inc., Rimouski. Localservices with four DC-3s, three Beavers and one Beechcraft D18.Last year Quebecair carried 105,635 passengers and flew 52,547ton-miles. Queen Charlotte Airlines, Ltd., Van-couver. Services in British Colum- bia with two DC-3s, two Cansos, twoStranraer and five Norseman. Queensland Airlines (Pry.), Ltd.,Brisbane. Operating services in N.S.W. and Queensland with threeDC-3s. Handley Page Heralds are on order. Last year the companycarried 52,591 passengers. Real (Real, S.A.. TransportesAereos). Sao Paulo. Domestic ser- vices and to Paraguay and Uruguaywith 32 DC-3s; on order, eight Con- vair 340s.Reeve Aleutian Airways, Inc., An chora je. Services to the AlaskaPeninsula and the Aleutian and Pribilof Islands, with three DC-3s,two Sikorsky S-43s and one Grum- man Goose. Last year Reeve carried2,968 passengers and flew 647,792 ton-miles.Riddle Airlines, Inc., Miami. Freijht-only services between NewYork, Miami and Puerto Rico with nine C-46s (one leased). Riddle flew14,856,425 ton-miles last year. Sabena (Societe Anonyme Beiged'Exploitation de la Navigation Aerienne—Belgian Airlines), Brus-sels. Operating European and Congo networks and services from Belgiumto the U.S.A., Libya, Morocco, Nigeria. Belgian Congo, South Africa,Egypt, Sudan and Uganda. Also operating European helicopter ser-vices. Fleet: five DC-6s, seven DC-6BS, two DC-6As, seven DC-4s,19 DC-3s, nine C-47s, four Convair 240s and six S-55s. On order, oneDC-6B. In 1954 the company car- ried 395,000 passengers and flew51.6m ton-miles Saskatchewan Government Airways,Prince Albert. Local services. Fleet: • one DC-3, three Ansons, six Norse-man, four Beavers, one Stinson, four Cessna 140s and three Cessna 180s.SAT A (Sociedade Acoriana de Transportes Aereos, Lda.), PontaDelgada. Local routes in Azores with Doves. Saudi Arabian Airlines, Jeddah. Op-erates network of Near East routes with 13 DC-3s, five DC-4s and fiveBristol 1703. S.A. Viacao Aerea Gaucha (Savag),Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil. Domestic routes with DC-3s.Scandinavian Airlines System, Stock- holm. Comprises Danish, Nor-wegian and Swedish Air Lines. Operates domestic services in Den-mark, Norway and Sweden, a European network and long-distanceroutes to North and South America, South Africa and the Far East.S.A.S is pioneering Polar routes. Fleet: 14 DC-6Bs, 12 DC-6s, 10DC-3s, four DC-4S, eight Scandias and two Ju 52s. Eight DC-7C SevenSeas have been ordered, for delivery in 1956. In the year ended Septem-ber 30th, 1954, S.A.S. carried 709,000 passengers and flew about70m ton-miles Servicio Aereo de Honduras, S.A.(SAHSA), Tegucigalpa. (Associate of P.A.W.A.) Domestic serviceswith seven DC-3s. Servicio <te Transportes Aereos, S.Tome, Portuguese East Africa. Local Above) Lufthansa Convair on a pre-delivery test flight. (Below) Panagra DC-6 at Ezeiza Airport, Buenos Aires. and flew 84,640,128 ton-miles.Navegacao Aerea Brasileira (N.A.B.), Rio de Janeiro. Local services withDC-3s. New York Airways, Inc., New York.Local passenger, mail and express services with five S-55s. Last yearN.Y.A. carried 8,180 passengers and flew 53,314 ton-miles.New Zealand National Airways Cor- poration, Wellington. Domesticroutes and to Norfolk Island. Fleet: 23 DC-3s, four Herons, six Rapidesand one ' Fox Moth. Last year N.Z.N.A.C. carried 337,485 passen-gers and flew 10,343,642 long ton- miles. North Central Airlines, Inc., Minne-apolis. Local services with 18 DC-3s. Last year the company carried283,556 passengers and flew 5,282,516 ton-miles.Northeast Airlines, Inc., Boston. Serving New York, Montreal andNew England. Fleet: 12 Douglas DC-3s and seven Convair 240s; noorders, but the company is "shopping for larger equipment. ' Last yearNortheast carried 523,489 passengers and flew 10,158,041 ton-miles.
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