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20 April 1956 469 Delta Air Lines, Inc. re-entered the airlinebusiness in 1934 after a break of four years following its pioneering of services in 1929between Birmingham and Dallas. In 1953 the company took over Chicago and Southern AirLines (founded in 1934) and until recently the company worked as Delta-C & S Air Lines.Delta has an extensive network stretching from New York, Detroit and Chicago in the northto Houston, New Orleans, Miami, Havana, San Juan and Caracas in the south. Westwardsthe network goes to Kansas City, Dallas and Fort Worth, while throughplane agreementsprovide service to Los Angeles, San Diego and San Francisco. Delta's services to New Yorkhave been made possible by new C.A.B. route awards.Head Office: Atlanta, Ga., U.S.A. Executives: C. E. Woolman, president/gen.mgr. (portrait, p.482); L. C. Parker, vice-pres. traffic and sales; C. H. Dolson, vice-presidentoperations; T. G. Cole, vice-president finance. Fleet: 11 DC-7, 20 Convair 340, seven DC-6,16 DC-3; on order five CV-440 (1956), 10 DC-7 (1957), six DC-8. Results for year ended December 31st, 1955:2,144,316 passengers; 12,378 tons of freight and 5,003 tons of mail carried; 7,365,158freight ton-miles flown; total costs, £19,730,926; total revenue £22,259,556; 4,547 staff. D.E.T.A.—see Divisao de Exploracao desTransportes Aereos. Deutsche Lufthansa. This is a new com-pany, not to be confused with the West Ger- man airline, which was set up in 1955 underan agreement between the East German Demo- cratic Republic and the U.S.S.R. The com-pany receives technical assistance from the U.S.S.R. and when it opened its first servicebetween Berlin and Warsaw earlier this year an Aeroflot 11-12 was used.Head Office: Berlin, German Democratic Republic.Fleet: 11-14. Deutsche Lufthansa, A.G. describes itself as"a new airline with an old tradition." This is apt, as although the new airline began internaloperations on April 1st, 1955, services to London on May 16th and to New York onJune 8th that year, the original D.L.H. was founded in January 1926 and its winged crestoriginated with Deutsche Luftreederei in 1919. Hans M. Bongers, managing director, Deutsche Lufthansa A.G. The new Lufthansa operates a small internalnetwork, European services to London, Paris, Madrid and Lisbon and North Atlantic servicesto New York via Shannon. This month services will be introduced to Montreal and Chicagovia Manchester and future plans call for routes to Turkey, Lebanon, Iraq, Persia and SouthAmerica. B.E.A. is assisting with the operation of theConvairs and T.W.A., Lockheed and Trans- ocean Air Lines with the Super Constellationflights. Head Office: Cologne, Germany.Executives: H. M. Bongers, managing director; G. Holtje, technical director.Fleet: five L-1049G, four Convair 340, two DC-3, two Saab Safir (training); on order threeL-1049G (1956), seven Viscount 810, four L-1649A, four Boeing 707.Results for year ended December 31st, 1955: 73,215 passengers; 550 tons of freight and 366tons of mail carried; 7,493,795 ton-miles flown; 2,000 staff. Financial details not avail-able. Divisao de Exploracao des TransportesAereos—D.E.T.A. was organized in 1936 by the Colonial Government of Mozambique as a division of the Department of Railways, Har-bours and Airways. Domestic services are operated and there are routes to Durban,Johannesburg and Salisbury. Head Office: Lourenco Marques, Mozambique.Executives: A. P. Pereira Leite, director general; A. H. Pinho da Cunha, manager; M. A.Cardoso Barata, acting manager. Fleet: three DC-3, three Lodestar, six Dove,two Ju 52/3m, four D.H.89, one D.H.90, two D.H.87. Results for year ended December 31st, 1955:20,066 passengers; 475 tons of freight and 93 tons of mail carried; 1,474,000 ton-km flown;.721 staff. Divisao dos Transportes Aereos—DTAwas founded in 1938 as a division of the Ports, Railways and Transport Administration. Opera-tions began in 1938 and at present DTA oper- ates a network of domestic services and also aroute between Luanda and Leopoldville. Dur- ing 1951 the Leopoldville route was extendedto Lourenco Marques but was abandoned as a result of poor load factors.Head Office: Luanda, Angola. Executives: R. Serrao, president; J. de S.Medina, managing director. Fleet: five DC-3, four Beech 18, seven D.H.89.Results for year ended December 31st, 1954: 24,981 passengers; 188,000 freight ton-km and51,000 mail ton-km flown; total ton-km, 1,441,000; 327 staff. Financial details notavailable. East African Airways Corporation came intobeing in 1946; it is responsible for the develop- ment of air transport in the three territories ofKenya, Uganda and Tanganyika and each Territory is represented on the board, as isB.O.A.C. The corporation is successor to the pre-war Wilson Airways. E.A.A.C. operates anetwork of services in the three Territories and to South Africa, with a route mileage of morethan 20,000. Freight services, begun in 1954, have already expanded. The corporation may take over someB.O.A.C. Argonauts for use on its main services and may also use these on a new route toLondon. Head Office: Nairobi, Kenya.Executives: A. V. Gill, secretary; Capt. E. E. Morris, operations manager; A. E. Robinson,engineering manager; P. A. Travers, sales manager; A. G. Molison, manager stations andtraffic. Fleet: nine DC-3s, four D.H.89, one Consul(training); on order, four-engined aircraft (late 1956).Results for year ended December 31st, 1955: 98,698 passengers; 2,591 tons of freight and357 tons of mail carried; 5,962,473 ton-miles offered; total costs (estimated), £1,085,000;total revenue (estimated), £1,080,000; 1,229 staff. Eastern Air Lines, Inc., is one of the largestU.S. carriers and its history goes back to 1927 when Pitcairn Aviation successfully bid for a mail contract between New York and Atlanta.The carrier's name became Eastern Air Trans- port in 1930, following North AmericanAviation's acquisition of Pitcairn in the pre- vious year. New York Airways and Luding-ton Air Lines were acquired in 1931 and 1933 respectively. North American sold its holdingsin 1938. E.A.L. now has an extensive route systemthroughout the Eastern States serving Boston, Detroit and Chicago at the northern extremi-ties; St. Louis, Memphis and San Antonio in the west; and Mexico City and Puerto Ricoat the southwest and southeast corners of the network. Throughplane service with Braniffreaches to Rio de Janeiro and Buenos Aires via the west coast of South America. Otherthroughplane services extend to Minneapolis/ St. Paul, Kansas City and Denver. Eastern is E. V. Rickenbacker, chairman, Eastern Air Lines. likely, after a long fight, to acquire ColonialAirlines. With a present fleet of 120 aircraft has no fewer than 108 aircraft on order.Head Office: New York, U.S.A. Executives: E. V. Rickenbacker, chairman/general manager; T. F. Armstrong, president; P. H. Brattain, first vice-president; T. E.Creighton, treasurer; F. L. Farley, secretary. Fleet: 60 Martin 4-0-4, 18 L-749, 13 L-1049A,16 L-1049C, 12 DC-7B, one DC-4; on order 10 L-1049G (autumn 1956), 28 DC-7B (1956,57, 58), 40 Electra (1958-59), 18 DC-8 (1959- 60), 12 Convair 440. Results for year ended December 31st, 1954:5,783,980 passengers; 11,192 tons of freight, 10,566 tons of express and 14,280 tons of mailcarried; 494,663,000 ton-km flown; total cost, £58,128,983; total revenue £60,683,273;10,794 staff. East-West Airlines, Ltd., founded in 1947to provide feeder services between inland dis- tricts and Brisbane and Sydney. Services be-tween Tamworth and Sydney were opened in that year and to Brisbane in 1948. The airlinenow serves seven inland points on this route and also operates services from Sydney toCowra, Cootamundra and West Wyalong. Head Office: Tamworth, N.S.W., Australia.Executives: D. M. Shand, chairman; Capt. A. J. Smith, general manager; R. O. Cooksey, One of CSA's fleet of Soviet-built Il-Us.
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