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1956
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470 FLIGHT, 20 April 1956 WORLD AIRLINE DIRECTORY administration manager; J. G. Riley, operationsmanager. Fleet: three DC-3, two Hudson; on order one DC-3 (by June 1956).Results for year ended December 31st, 19SS: 54,715 passengers; 811 tons of freight and fourtons of mail carried; 1,344,000 ton-miles flown; 101 staff. Financial details not available. El Al Israel Airlines, Ltd., was incorporatedin November 1948 and began services to European cities, including London, in 1949.Routes to the U.S.A. and the Union of South Africa were opened in 1951. The Governmentof Israel has the majority holding in El Al; the shipping company Zim Israel Navigation Co.,Ltd., also has a financial interest in the airline. Head Office: Tel Aviv-Yafo, Israel.Executives: L. A. Pincus, managing director; Y. Palgi, deputy managing director (productionand operations); Dr. A. Rywkind, deputy man- aging director (commercial).Fleet: five L-049 Constellation, three Curtiss C-46, one Consul (training); on order, threeBritannia 313 (early 1957). Results for year ended December 31st, 1955:35,000 passengers; 700 tons of freight and 130 tons of mail carried; 46,000,000 passenger milesflown; 1,088 staff. Financial details not avail- able. Ellis Air Lines was incorporated in 1940but operations had been started as far back as 1936, when R. E. Ellis began flying with oneWaco biplane. Routes are operated from Ketchikan to as far north as Sitka and Juneau.In 1952 a southward extension from Ketchikan to Prince Rupert gave Ellis Air Lines its firstinternational operation. Head Office: Ketchikan, Alaska.Executives: R. E. Ellis, president; J. L. Sher- man, vice-president maintenance; G. A.Bodding, vice-president operations. Fleet: Goose.Results for year ended December 31st, 1954: 52,500 passengers; 800 tons of freight and mailcarried; 45,000 freight and mail ton-miles flown; 96 staff. . .Financial details not available. Empresa de Transportes Aerovias Brasil,S.A., was founded by TACA Airways in 1942. After the war Aerovias Brasil became one ofthe two Brazilian companies to operate inter- national services to the U.S.A. TACA soldits interests in 1947 and in 1949 VASP acquired the controlling interest but this was later trans-ferred to the Municipal Bank of Sao Paulo. The airline is now a subsidiary of REAL whichgained control of the company in 1954. Although operated as a separate concern Aero-vias Brasil's routes, staff and equipment are integrated with REAL and Aeronorte. Thecompany is known as Brazilian International Airlines and this title, together with the RealAerovias Brasil System, appears on timetables and publicity. B.I.A. operates domestic ser-vices and services from Buenos Aires and Montevideo through Brazil to Trinidad,Venezuela and Miami. Head Office: Sao Paulo, Brazil.Executives: not available. Fleet: DC-4, DC-3; on order DC-6B.Traffic statistics not available. Empresa Guatemalteca de Aviacion—AVIATECA, was formed by the Guatemala Government in 1945 to take over Aerovias deGuatemala, which had been founded in 1939, and which began operating in 1940. The com-pany operates about 1,400 miles of routes radi- ating from Guatemala City.Head Office: Guatemala City, Guatemala. Executives: Col. R. Mendoza, president; C. J.Hirst, operations manager. Fleet: one DC-4, six DC-3, one Norseman.In 1954 Aviateca carried about 64,000 pas- sengers and 3,500 tons of freight and mail. Ethiopian Air Lines, Inc. is owned by theEthiopian Government and managed by T.W.A. Services were begun in April 1946 andthe present operations include services within Ethiopia and to Aden, Nairobi, Khartoum,Cairo and Athens. E.A.L. was for a time one of the few airlines using rocket-assisted take-off for passenger aircraft, a practice now dis- continued.Head Office: Addis Ababa, Ethiopia. One of Flugfelag Islands' PBY-SA Canso amphibians. Executives: H. E. Lij Araya Abebe, presidentand chairman; H. E. Ato Menasse Lemma, vice-president; V. H. Harrell, Jnr., generalmanager; M. F. Garrison, secretary/treasurer; H. F. Noon, acting general operations manager;D. P. Reid, general sales manager. Fleet: two Convair 240, eight DC-3; on order,one Convair 240 (June 1956). Results for year ended December 31st, 1955:67,023 passengers; 4,855 tons of freight and 65 tons of mail carried; 8,409,433 ton-milesflown; total costs (estimated) £1,258,650; total revenue (estimated) £1,386,250; 591 staff. Far Eastern Airlines is a subsidiary of themanufacturing agents C. Itoh. At the end of 1953 the company was awarded the right tooperate feeder services from Osaka. Present routes are from Osaka to Takamatu, Iwakuni,Fukuoka, Miyazaki, Kochi and Yonago. Head Office: Osaka, Japan.Executives: Admiral T. Nakamura, general manager, Capt. H. G. Holmes, operationsmanager. Fleet: Dove, Marathon. -...•• '. ,_;-...,Traffic statistics not available. Faucett—see Compania de Aviacion-Faucett. Federation Air Service began operation, inNovember 1951, of local services based on Kuala Lumpur. These link up numerousisolated areas and also act as feeder services to the routes of Malayan Airways, with whichFederation Air Service k in association. Head Office: Kuala Lumpur, Malaya. Fleet: six Beaver.Fiji Airways was founded in 1951 by Harold Gatty, who flew round the world in a Lock-heed Vega with Wiley Post in 1931—they took just under nine days. Regular services withinFiji were begun in September 1951 using D.H.89s. Drover aircraft now link Suva,Nandi, Savusava, Taveuni and Lambasa. Head Office: Nandi, Fiji.Executives: H. Gatty, managing director; Capt. F. Ladd, chief pilot; L. Dobbin, chief engineer.Fleet: one or two Drover, two D.H.89. Traffic statistics not available. Finnair—see Aero O/Y. Flugfelag Islands h.f. (Iceland Airways,Ltd.), founded in 1937 as Flugfelag Akureyrar and began operation with one Waco biplaneon floats. The present company name was adopted in 1940. In 1946 the company beganservices to Scandinavia and the United King- dom. These were operated by Scottish Aviationfor Iceland Airways until 1948 when the com- pany introduced its own DC-4 aircraft. DC-3sand flyin?-boats serve a score of places in Ice- land and DC-4s operate from Reykjavik to Copenhagen, Hamburg, Glasgow and London^Head Office: Reykjavik, Iceland. Executives: O. O. Johnson, general manager;J. R. Snorrason; chief pilot; B. Tomasson vchief engineer; S. K. Marthiasson, traffic mana- ger (international); H. Sigurdsson, trafficmanager (domestic); S. Thorbjornsson, chief accountant. Fleet: two DC-4, four DC-3, two PBY-5ACanso, one Goose. Results for year ended December 31st, 1955:53,451 passengers; 1,118 tons of freight and 135 tons of mail carried; 3,164,395 ton-kmflown; 180 staff. Financial details not available. Flying Tiger Line Inc., The. Founded inJune 1945 as National Skyway Freight Cor- poration. In addition to non-scheduled flyingFlying Tiger Line operates coast-to-coast scheduled freight services. Every weekday aDC-6A flies from Los Angeles to New York via Chicago and Detroit returning nonstop; to thesame frequency there is also a DC-6A flight from San Francisco to Chicago and Detroit.C-46s serve the following additional cities: Seattle, Portland, Minneapolis/St. Paul, Mil-waukee, Cleveland, Buffalo, Binghamton, Phila- delphia, Hartford and Boston. In 1954 anattempt to merge with Slick Airways had to be abandoned because of financial problems in-volved. Head Office: Burbank, Cal., U.S.A.Executives: R. W. Prescott, president; F. Benninger, secretary; W. E. Bartling, vice-president operations. Fleet: six DC-4, seven DC-6A, 23 C-46; onorder 10 L-1049H. In 1954 Flying Tiger Line flew 25,000,000revenue ton-miles. Frontier Airlines, Inc., acquired in June 1950the temporary certificates of Arizona Airways, Challenger Airlines and Monarch Airlines, andis now operating a network of 3,500 miles in Colorado, Arizona, New Mexico, Utah, Wyom-ing, Montana and North Dakota. Head Office: Denver, Colorado, U.S.A.Executives: L. E. Leverone, chairman; C. A. Myhre, president; E. N. Levin, secretary; L. P.Blatter, treasurer; J. D. Lindsay, vice-president traffic and sales.Fleet: 13 DC-3. Results for year ended December 31st, 1955:172,282 passengers; 1,920 tons of freight and 375 tons of mail carried; 5,278,281 ton-milesflown; total costs (estimated), £1,953,000; total revenue (estimated), £1,969,000; 638 staff. Garuda Indonesian Airways N.V. is theState-owned Indonesian airline, which had been formed by the Government and K.L.M.as successor to K.L.M.'s post-war operations in the area and the pre-war K.N.I.L.M. National- A Jersey Airlines' de Havilland Heron Series 1 taking-off from Alderney.
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