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1956
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468 FLIGHT The East German Deutsche Lufthansa's 11-14, seen leaving Berlin on a special flight to Moscow. WORLD AIRLINE DIRECTORY . . . 588,733 passengers; 2,311 staff. Other detailsnot available but total ton-km flown in 1954 were 30,106,000. Compania Mexicana de Aviacion, S.A., was founded on August 20th, 1924, to carry pay-roll gold from Tampico to the oil fields in the State of Veracruz, thus avoiding the banditswho had been attacking the paymasters travel- ling by surface. The original fleet consisted ofsingle-engined Lincoln Standard biplanes. In 1929 Pan American Airways acquired 100 percent of C.M.A.'s stock but this holding was subsequently considerably reduced. C.M.A.,now the main Mexican airline, operates a net- work of services within Mexico and to LosAngeles and Havana. Scheduled freight services are also operated within Mexico and to LosAngeles. Head Office: Mexico, D.F.Executives: A. Saenz, president; P. A. Chapa, vice-president; C. F. Osuna, vice-president;R. I. Perez, treasurer; A. Flores, secretary; E. R. Silliman, general manager; R. P. Pignot,operations manager; F. O. Willy, traffic manager.Fleet: four DC-6, six DC-4, 19 DC-3, three Fairchild C-82A; on order four DC-7C (1957).Results for year ended December 31st, 19SS: 467,316 passengers; 15,530 tons of freight and754 tons of mail carried; 54,117,085 ton-km flown; total costs, £4,567,292; total revenue,£5,183,030; 2,922 staff. Compania Panamena de Aviacion, S.A.— COPA., an affiliate of Pan American WorldAirways, was founded in 1944 by P.A.W.A. and Panamanian interests, with the U.S. lineholding 40 per cent of the stock. This holding has since been reduced. Scheduled serviceswere begun in 1948. The company now operates a system serving seven points inPanama and San Jose in Costa Rica. Head Office: Panama City, Panama.Executives: R. Arias, president; R. Huer- tematte, secretary; F. Icaza, treasurer.Fleet: DC-3. Traffic statistics not available. Connellan Airways, Ltd., became a limitedcompany in 1951 but operations were begun in August 1939 when E. J. Connellan startedflying a fortnightly 1,184-mile route serving nearly a score of places between Wyndham andAlice Springs; he used a Percival Gull. Now the company operates extensive local servicesbased on Alice Springs and the unduplicated route mileage is about 8,000.Head Office: Alice Springs, N.T., Australia. Executives: E. J. Connellan, governing director;I. M. Leslie, secretary. Fleet: three D.H.89, one D.H.90, one D.H.82,one Aiglet. [Com. in col. 2.] Results for year ended December 31st, 1954: 1,300 passengers; 90 tons of freight and mail carried; 27 staff. Continental Air Lines, Inc., counts itshistory as dating from July 15th, 1934, when Varney Speed Lines began a service betweenEl Paso and Pueblo with Lockheed Vegas. In December that year the Southwest Divisionof Varney Speed Lines became Varney Air Transport and on July 1st, 1937, the companybecame Continental Air Lines. Earlier in 1937 the Denver - Pueblo route of Wyoming AirService (Inland Air Lines) was purchased. The company's latest acquisition, in 1954, wasPioneer Air Lines, which began service in 1945. Pioneer's routes measured 2,000 miles andserved 22 cities in Texas and New Mexico. Continental now serves a population of 19million people in the area bounded by Kansas City and Denver in the north and El Paso andHouston in the south. Throughplane agree- ments give access to Seattle, California, andSt. Louis. Head Office: Denver, Colorado, U.S.A.Executives: L. H. Mueller, chairman; R. F. Six, president (portrait p.482); C. C. West, jnr.,exec, vice-pres.; O. R. Haueter, vice-president operations; C. H. Calhoun, vice-president,engineering and maintenance; J. A. Uhl, vice- president/treasurer; S. B. Redmond, secretary.Fleet: eight DC-3, six Convair 340, three DC-6B; leased aircraft, 12 DC-3, two DC-6B;on order three Convair 440 (1956), five DC-7B (1957), 15 Viscount 810D (1958), four Boeing707 (1959). Results for year ended December 31st, 1955:600,792 passengers; 1,290,998 tons of freight and 754,951 tons of mail carried; 23,531,152ton-miles flown; total costs, £5,406,262; total revenue, £5,743,870; 1,375 staff. COPA—see Compania Panamena de Avia-cion, S.A. Cordova Airlines, Inc., began operations in1934 and now operates services in the Anchor- age - Cordova - Seward area and as far northas Fairbanks. Head Office: Anchorage, Alaska.Executives: M. K. Smith, president; J. M. Stern, traffic and sales manager.Fleet: two DC-3, one Lockheed 10A, three Cessna 170, two Piper PA14, one Stinson V-77,one Stinson Junior, one Stinson Reliant. In 1953 the company carried nearly 10,000passengers and flew a total of 168,000 revenue ton-miles. Corps d'Aviation de l'Armee d'Haiti. Thismilitary transport organization was founded in 1942, began mail carriage in the following yearand passenger services in 1944. The route net- work, entirely within Haiti, measures 734 milesand consists of three triangular routes starting and ending at Port au Prince and a single routebetween Port au Prince and Jacmel. Head Office: Port au Prince, Haiti.Executives: Lt. Col. E. Roy, manager; Capt. A. Maignan, traffic manager; Lt. G. Danach,operations manager. Fleet: three DC-3, one Stratoliner, one BeechAT-11. Traffic statistics not available. Cruzeiro—see Servicos Aereos Cruzeiro doSul, Ltda. Cubana—see Compania Cubana de Avia-cion, S.A. Cyprus Airways, Ltd., was founded in 1947by B.E.A., the Cyprus Government and private interests. The British airline holdings are now23 per cent each by B.E.A. and B.O.A.C. The company operates DC-3s on routes to Athens,Cairo, Beirut, Kuwait, Bahrein, Doha, Haifa, Istanbul, Port Sudan, Khartoum and Tel Aviv.In addition, B.E.A. provides Viscounts under a hire agreement for certain services betweenNicosia and Beirut and Nicosia and Athens. These form part of the joint operation of theB.E.A./Cyprus Airways London - Athens - Nicosia/Beirut route.Head Office: Nicosia, Cyprus. Executives: Dr. C. Raeburn, chairman; J. A.Vick, general manager; B. G. Cooper, secre- tary; M. J. C. Auster, commercial manager;J. G. Williams, chief engineer. Fleet: six DC-3. Results for year ended December 31st, 1955:39,604 passengers; 571.5 tons of freight and 339 tons of mail carried; 2,145,114 ton-milesflown; 277 staff. Financial details not available. Ethiopian Air Lines' two Convair-Liner CV-240s at Addis Ababa.
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