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1956 - 0463.PDF
FLIGHT, 20 April 1956 463 WORLD AIRLINE DIRECTORY . . . 55,772 passengers; 1,320 tons of freight and440 tons of mail carried; other details not available. Air Jordan Co., Ltd., was founded in 1950by local interests and services were begun with Airspeed Consuls. In 1953 Transocean AirLines acquired an interest in Air Jordan and DC-3s were introduced. The airline nowoperates from Jerusalem and/or Amman to Aqaba, Cairo, Damascus, Beirut andDhahranm. Head Office; Amman, Jordan.Executives: A. Z. Nuseibeh, chairman; A. M. el-Qutob, general manager; S. R. Kochenderfer,executive director. Fleet: DC-3 and Curtiss C-46. Other detailsnot available. Air Laos was formed in 1952 by Air France,Aigle Azur and local interests. Air France sub- scribed 30 per cent of the original stock andAigle Azur 20 per cent. Services are operated from Vientiane to a number of places in Laosand to Saigon, Bangkok and Hong Kong. Head Office: Vientiane, Indo-China.Executives: not available. Fleet: DC-3, Bristol 170, Stratoliner.In its first year the airline carried more than 16,000 passengers. Air Liban was founded in 1945 as Com-pagnie Generate de Transport and took its present title in 1951. Air Liban is an associateof Air France and operates services between Beirut and Accra, Aleppo, Baghdad, Bahrein,Cairo, Doha, Fort Lamy, Istanbul, Jerusalem, Jeddah, Khartoum, Kuwait, Lagos and Nicosia.Head Office: Beirut, Lebanon. Executive: B. Meguerdiche, director general.Fleet: four DC-3, two DC-4, one Languedoc, two York. Results for year ended December 31st, 19S5:49,394 passengers; 1,234 tons of freight and 28.9 tons of mail carried; 6,074,261 ton-kmflown; 267 staff. Financial details not available. Airlines (W.A.), Ltd.—see MacRobertson-Miller Airlines, Ltd. Air Madagascar operates a network ofservices within Madagascar. Head Office: Tananarive, Madagascar.Fleet: D.H.89. Airtaco A.B. was founded in 1934 as A. B.Bjorkvallsnyg and in 1944 became Skandina- viska Aero A.B. (Scandinavian Airways Ltd.).Later S.A.S. paid the company about £10,000 to change its name, since when it has operatedas Airtaco. Newspaper services are flown from Stockholm to Sundsvall/Harnosand, Karlstad,Trollhattan, Gothenburg, Alvesta, Malmo and other Swedish destinations and the company isallowed to carry passengers to Stockholm on the return flights from some of the pointsserved. Charter and ambulance work is also undertaken.Head Office: Stockholm, Sweden. Executives: A. Forsmark, managing director;T. Andersson, operations manager. Fleet: DC-3, Lodestar, Lockheed 12A. Other details not available. Air Vietnam was founded in 1951 to takeover domestic and regional services previously operated by Air France. The VietnameseGovernment holds 50 per cent of the stock and Air France holds 33 per cent. Air Vietnamflies domestic services and to Laos, Hong Kong and Bangkok. In collaboration with U.A.T.a weekly DC-6B service is flown from Saigon to Paris via Karachi and Beirut. Air Vietnamdoes much non-scheduled flying. Head Office: Saigon, Indo-China.Executives: N. Van Tri, president; L. C. Trinh, manager. Fleet: two DC-3, two DC-4, five Bristol 170.Results for year ended December 31st, 1954: 75,924 passengers; 2,041,000 freight ton-kmand 439,000 mail ton-km flown; total ton-km 6,937,000; 825 staff. Financial details notavailable. Alaska Airlines, Inc., adopted its presenttitle in 1944, having been founded in 1937 as Star Air Lines Inc., to take over Star Air Ser-vice, which had been doing charter work for several years; the latter had acquired McGee A Lockheed Lodestar of Aero-Nord Sweden at Kabul, Afghanistan. Airways, which was founded in 1932. In 1942and 1943 Star Air Lines took over Pollack Air Lines, Lavery Airways and Mirow Air Service.Alaska Airlines, which has an extensive Alaskan route system and also serves Seattle and Port-land, still uses the title "Route of the Starliners." Head Office: Seattle, Washington, U.S.A.Executives: N. David, president/general man- ager; H. W. Robinson, chairman; R. J. Norris,treasurer. Fleet: two DC-4, three DC-3, two C-46, oneLodestar and other small aircraft. Results for year ended December 31st, 1954:29,000 passengers; 2,750,000 freight and mail ton-miles flown; total ton-miles 4,500,000.Other details not available. Alaska Coastal Airlines operate a networkof domestic services based on Juneau. The air- line was formed in 1939 as a partnership byAlaska Air Transport, founded in 1935, and Marine Airways, founded in the following year.Head Office: Juneau, Alaska. Executives: S. B. Simmons and O. F. Benecke,co-managers. Fleet: nine Goose, one Canso, two Widgeon,one Seabee, one Aeronca Super Chief, one Bellanca Pacemaker, one Lockheed Vega.Results for year ended December 31st, 1954: 45,500 passengers; 1,100 tons of freight andmail carried; total revenue ton-miles 475,000. Other details not available. Alitalia — Aerolinee Italiane Internazionaliwas formed in 1946 as a joint British-Italian venture with B.E.A. holding 30 per cent of theoriginal capital. Additional capital was called up in 1955 and B.E.A. sold one-third of itsinvestment to B.O.A.C. Operating in pool with B.E.A. on certain European routes, Alitaliaoperates long-distance services to the Argentine, Venezuela, Italian and British Somaliland. Itsshorter routes serve London, Paris, Tripoli, Nice, Geneva, Athens, Beirut and Frankfurt. There are also some domestic services linkingRome, Milan, Turin and Catania. A London- Venice service is to be introduced this summer.Alitalia made a profit of £133,000 in its financial year 1954-1955.Head Office: Rome, Italy. Executives: Count Dr. N. Carandini, chair-man (portrait, p. 484); Ing B. Velani, gen. mgr.; Dr. D. Saracino, administration manager; R.Cappelletti, commercial manager. Fleet: six DC-6B, four Convair 340; on order,four DC-7C (1958), two Convair 440 (1957). Results for year ended December 31st, 1955:17,168,276 passenger-km flown; 1,377,926 freight ton-km and 1,192,695 mail ton-kmflown; total ton-km, 20,644,754; 805 staff. Financial details not available. Allegheny Airlines, Inc., was founded in1937 as All-American Airways. That company pioneered "pick up" air mail services usingStinson Reliants with collection attachments. These services were worked under contractwith the post office and from 1940 under C.A.B. certification. By 1946 nearly 6,000 miles a daywere being flown at 94 per cent regularity. The system extended from Philadelphia in the eastto Cincinnati in the west and Charleston in the south to Jameston, N.Y., in the north. Therewere four nights a day. The service was with- drawn in 1949 after nearly 15 million miles hadbeen flown. Ail-American began normal scheduled passenger services in 1949, and be-came Allegheny Airlines in 1953. 2,000 miles of unduplicated routes are now operated inPennsylvania, New York, New Jersey, Mary- land, Delaware, Ohio and West Virginia.Head Office: Washington, D.C., U.S.A. Executives: L. O. Barnes, president; E. K.Arnold, vice-president/secretary; D. L. Miller, vice-president traffic and sales; W. J. Short,vice-president/ treasurer. Fleet: 14 DC-3, three Martin 2-0-2; on ordertwo Martin 2-0-2 (early 1956). The S.N.C.A.S.E. Caravelle prototype taking-off. Air France has 12 on order.
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