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FLIGHT, 20 April 1956 467 WORLD AIRLINE DIRECTORY. . . flown; total costs (preliminary) £3,419,835;total revenue (preliminary) £3,390,473; 799 staff. Commercial Air Services (Pty.), Ltd., wasfounded in 1943 as a charter operator. Regu- lar services were begun in 1948. At presentC.A.S. flies twice a week between Bulawayo and Livingstone via Wankie; 10 times a weekJohannesburg - Welkom; once on weekdays Wdkom - Bloemfontein; and once on Satur-days Welkom - Durban. The scheduled ser- vices are flown by Lodestar and Cessna 170aircraft. Head Office: Johannesburg, Transvaal, Unionof South Africa. Executives: J. M. S. Martin, operations man-ager; L. Zimmerman, commercial manager. Fleet: one Lodestar, one D.H.82, one Cessna120, one Cessna 140, seven Cessna 170/170B, three Cessna 180.Traffic statistics not available. Compagnie de Transports Aeriens Intercon-tinentanx — T.A.I. was formed after World War II as a charter operator, closely associatedwith shipping companies, and later established regular scheduled services to various parts ofAfrica, Madagascar and Saigon. A redistribu- tion of French air routes became effective onJanuary 1st this year and T.A.I, has been allotted 60 per cent of the traffic betweenFrance and North Africa and the eastern part of French West Africa; 50 per cent to Djibouti,Madagascar and Reunion; and 10 per cent between France and Morocco. The company has also been made responsiblefor the development of French services to Indonesia, Ceylon, Australia and New Cale-donia. The Air France services to Australia and New Caledonia have already been takenover by T.A.I. Head Office: Paris, France.Executives: P. Bernard, president; General G. Fayet, director-general; M. Mathieu,secretary - general; M. Gaffie, commercial director. Fleet: four DC-6B, two DC-4; on order twoDC-7C (December 1957). Results for year ended December 31st, 1955:51,161 passengers; 1,650 tons of freight and 292 tons of mail carried; 35,554,569 ton-kmflown; 700 staff. Financial details not available. Compagnie Generate de TransportsAeriens Air Algerie was formed in 1953 by the merging of the original Air Algerie andCie. Air Transport. The controlling interest in C.G.T.A. Air Algerie is held by Cie. Gle.Transatlantique in association with Cie. de Navigation Mixte. Services are operated withinAlgeria and from Algeria to Palma, numerous places in France and to Geneva.Head Office: Algiers, Algeria. Executives: J. Lignel, president; L. Adida,general manager. Fleet: three DC-4, two DC-3, two SO 30PBretagne. It is reported that some schedules are operated with Constellations, these may beleased from Air France. Results for year ended December 31st, 1954:105,925 passengers; 1,830,000 freight ton-km flown; total ton-km 11,443,000; 420 staff.Other details not available. Compagnie Nationale AIR FRANCE is be-lieved to have the greatest unduplicated route mileage of any airline. The company wasformed in August 1933 by the merging of Air Union, S.G.T.A., and C.I.D.N.A. and the pur-chase of Aeropostale. Some of the Air France A Fokker-built Saab Scandia seen on completion for the Brazilian airline VASP. Max Hymans, chairman. Air France. constituents can claim operating experienceback to 1919. French air transport has a great history and was early in establishing Europeanair services and services to Africa. The pioneer- ing by French airlines of mail services in SouthAmerica and later across the South Atlantic is one of the great stories of aviation. In additionto these routes a system of Mediterranean services was established and the route to Indo-China was opened as early as 1932. Air France now has about 170,000 miles of routes inEurope and Africa and to North and South America, the Near, Middle and Far East.Operations range from de luxe services to America and the Far East (with Super Con-stellations) to what might be termed desert bus services. The company also operates theFrench internal night mail services, which have achieved a very high standard of regularity andreliability frequently in extremely bad weather when all other flying has ceased.Head Office: Paris, France. Executives: M. Hymans, chairman; L. Lesieux,president. Fleet: eight L-1049G, nine L-1049C, 18L-749A, 12 Viscount, 12 Provence, 19 DC-4, 38 DC-3; on order six L-1049 (1956-57), 10L-1649A (1957-58), 12 Caravelle (1958-60), 10 Boeing 707-328 (1959-60).Results for year ended December 31st, 1955: 1,837,272 passengers; 47,689 tons of freightand 12,103 tons of mail carried; 296,072,075 ton-km flown. Other details not available. Compania Aeronautica Uruguaya, S.A.—Causa, was founded in 1936 and in 1938 opened a route between Montevideo andBuenos Aires, using Junkers—Ju52/3m float- planes. In 1943 Causa opened a second routeacross Rio de la Plata, from Colonia to Buenos Aires. Sandringham flying-boats are used onboth routes. The Montevideo - Buenos Aires route is flown in pool with Aerolineas Argen-tinas, with the Uruguayan company flying nine services a week. The Colonia route isflown once each way on weekdays. Head Office: Montevideo, Uruguay.Executives: J. A. Beisso, president; T. L. Borges, managing director; O. M. Rodriquez,secretary. Fleet: Short Sandringham. .Traffic statistics not available. ' ' Compania Cabana de Aviacion, S.A.—Cubana, was founded in 1929 as Compania Nacional Cubana de Aviacion Curtiss, S.A.,for the operation of a school and charter ser- vices. Scheduled services were begun in 1930.Pan American obtained 100 per cent control of the company in 1932. P.A.A.'s holding wassubsequently much reduced until in 1953 it was only 20 per cent, and it has now with-drawn from Cubana. The company now flies domestic services and also routes to Mexico,Haiti, Bermuda, Portugal and Spain. In order to meet the fierce competition in the areaCubana has ordered the three Viscounts which were under construction for Airwork.Head Office: Havana, Cuba. Executives: J. L. Vilaboy, president; J. M. Palh Diaz, vice-president /general manager; I.Calderin, treasurer. Fleet: three L-1049, two Constellation, sevenDC-3, five C-46; on order three Viscount 755. Results for year ended December 31st, 1954:229,419 passengers; 1,145,000 freight ton-km and 137,000 mail ton-km flown; total ton-km13,403,000; 688 staff. Financial details not available. Compania de Aviacion "Faucett" S.A., isone of the oldest South American airlines, having been founded in 1928. The companynow flies over 4,000 miles of internal routes and it is one of the few airlines which operates aircraft of its own manufacture: about 30Faucett-built Stinsons were produced, and four of these are still used by the airline. Thecompany's honorary president was the original founder.Head Office: Lima, Peru. Executives: E. J. Faucett, hon. president; E.Dibos, president of the board; A. Bentin, managing director. Fleet: three DC-4, seven DC-3, four Stinson-Faucett. Results for year ended December 31st, 1955:136,456 passengers; 13,372 tons of freight and 466 tons of mail carried; 307 staff. Other figures not available. Compania Dominicana de Aviacion, S.A.,was founded in 1944 by local interests and Pan American Airways. Scheduled domestic opera-tions began that year. The company has a domestic route network and also flies fromCiudad Trujillo to Port au Prince in Haiti and to Miami, Florida. Head Office: Ciudad Trujillo, DominicanRepublic. Executives: C. A. McLaughlin, president/general manager; G. M. Burrie, vice-president. Fleet: DC-3, C-46. In 1953 the company carried 19,200 passengers,lj tons of mail and 3 tons of freight. Compania Mercantil Anonima IBERIA,Lineas Aereas Espanolas, was established in 1940 as successor to L.A.P.E. Originally theSpanish Government owned 51 per cent of the capital with other Spanish interests andDeutsche Lufthansa holding the other 49 per cent. All stock was subsequently acquired bythe Government. Iberia began as a domestic operator but now has in addition to its internalservices others to London, Paris, Frankfurt, Geneva, Rome and Lisbon. Long distanceservices are operated to New York, Mexico, Venezuela, Buenos Aires and Spanish pos-sessions in Africa and off the coast of that continent. Head Office: Madrid, Spain.Executives: D. Tomas Delgado, chairman (por- trait, p.482); D. C. G. Lucia dir./gen. mgr.; F.Iglesias, chief engineer; J. M. Ansaldo, chief flight operations; J. Viniegra, general secretary.Fleet: three L-1049, six DC-4, 17 DC-3, four Bristol 170; on order two L-1049G (August1957), five Convair 440 (1957). Results to year ended December 31st, 1955:
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