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474 FLIGHT, 20 April 1956 WORLD AIRLINE DIRECTORY . . . Results for year ended December 31st, 1955:94,399 passengers; 6,195 tons of freight and 159 tons of mail carried; 7,919,972 ton-kmflown; total costs, £3,963,844; total revenue, £4,496,687. Los Angeles Airways, Inc., was incorporatedon May 11th, 1944. The company began a mail service circuit in the San Fernando Valleyon October 1st, 1947, and thereby became the first helicopter-scheduled service operator.Two further circuits were opened, one on October 15th and the other on January 8th,1948. A shuttle service was also established between the Los Angeles post office roof andthe International Airport. Passenger services were inaugurated in November 1954 and theseservices now link ten points with Los Angeles International Airport—S.55s are used onthese services and the S-51s operate the mail flights. Head Office: Los Angeles, Cal., U.S.A.Executives: C. M. Belinn, president; M. J. Burke, secretary; J. T. Kane, treasurer.Fleet: four S-55, three S-51. In 1954 the company carried about 3,500 tonsof mail and express. Lufthansa—see Deutsche Lufthansa A.G. Mackey Airlines, Inc., now operatingscheduled passenger services from St. Peters- burg, Tampa, Fort Lauderdale and West PalmBeach to Nassau in the Bahamas, was incor- porated as Mackey Air Transport in 1946.Scheduled operations were approved in 1952 and inaugurated on January 2nd, 1953. Appli-cations have been filed for routes to Havana and other places in the Caribbean area.Head Office: Fort Lauderdale, Florida, U.S.A. Executives: J. C. Mackey, president; L. J.Povey, vice-president; J. H. Popham, secretary. Fleet: four DC-3, two DC-4; on order, twoFokker Friendship (October and November 1957). Results for year ended December 31st, 1955:32,683 passengers; 40 tons of freight carried; 889,029 ton-miles flown; 62 staff. Figures arefor scheduled operations only. Financial details not available. MacRobertson-Miller Airlines, Ltd., wasbrought into being in 1955 by the merger of MacRobertson-Miller Aviation Co. (Pty.), Ltd.,and Airlines (W.A.), Ltd. MacRobertson- Miller Aviation was founded in 1927 and wassuccessor to the Commercial Aviation Co., founded by Capt. H. C. Miller shortly afterthe first war. Airlines (W.A.) was established in 1935 and the two companies had extensiveexperience in the operation of airlines through- out the length of the west coast of Australiaand the allied inland districts. It is over this entire area that the new company is nowoperating scheduled services. Head Office: Perth, Western Australia.Executives: C. N. Kleinig, managing director; H. C. Miller, regional director; J. W. Cameron,executive director; E. C. Gare, secretary; K. Cohen, operations manager.Fleet: five DC-3, three Dove, five Anson. Results for year ended December 31st, 1955:46,043 passengers; 3,078 tons of freight and 74 tons of mail carried; 411 staff. Other detailsnot available. Magyar LegikSzlekedesi Vallalat—MALEVwas founded as Maszovlet (Hungarian - Soviet Air Traffic Company) in 1946. The U.S.S.R.withdrew its interest in 1954 and the present title was then adopted. The airline now operatesdomestic services and to Sofia, Berlin, Warsaw, Budapest, Prague and Bucharest.Head Office: Budapest, Hungary. Fleet: Li-2. Malayan Airways, Ltd., founded in 1947, hasas its main shareholders Blue Funnel Line, Straits Steamship Co., and B.O.A.C. (with aminority interest). DC-3s operate from Singapore to points in Malaya and to Medan,Palembang, Bangkok, Sarawak and North Borneo. North Borneo - Brunei - Sarawaklocal services are operated with D.H.89s. Head Office: Singapore.Executives: F. L. Lane, chairman; R. P. Mol- lard, managing director, J. Skeldon, manager;A. G. Beohm, traffic manager. Fleet: 11 DC-3; three D.H.89.Results for year ended December 31st, 1955: 144,774 passengers; 494 tons of freight and56 tons of mail carried; 4,883,870 ton-km flown; 752 staff. Financial details not available. MALEV—see Magyar Legikozlekedesi Vallalat. Malta Airlines, The. This concern is anassociate of B.E.A. and consists of the Malta Airways Company, Ltd., and its wholly ownedsubsidiary Air Malta, Ltd. B.E.A. operates the routes of The Malta Airlines and these arebetween Malta and Italy, France, the United Kingdom, Corsica, Libya and Egypt. TheB.E.A. shareholding is 34 per cent. Head Office: Valetta, Malta G.C.Executive: Lt-Col. R. Strickland, chairman. Fleet: B.E.A. aircraft supplied and operated byagreement. In the financial year 1954-55, The Malta Air-lines made a net profit of £1,400. Mandated Airlines, Ltd, was founded in1936 as a subsidiary of W. R. Carpenter and Co., Ltd., the aviation assets of which were takenover by Qantas in 1934. Mandated became an independent company, and in 1937 the airlinewas awarded a contract for passenger, mail and cargo work in New Guinea. Mandated nowoperates scheduled services from Lae to eight points including Goroka, Wau, Port Moresbyand Rabaul. Charter and other work is also undertaken. .= .•.. Head Office: Lae, New Guinea. . • . •. Fleet: two DC-3, three D.H.84. - *•-•'••;Traffic statistics not available. ; Maritime Central Airways, Ltd., is a privatecompany which began regular service in 1941 between Charlottetown on Prince EdwardIsland and Moncton, New Brunswick. With its mixed fleet the company undertakes charterwork and maintains regular services to New Glasgow, Halifax, the Magdalen Isles, Sum-merside, Moncton, St. John, Fredericton, Goose Bay, Gander and St. John's.Head Office: Charlottetown, Prince Edward Island, Canada. 7Executives: J. K. Curren, president; F. T. Briggs, vice-president; C. F. Burke, managingdirector; A. M. Clark, secretary/treasurer. Fleet: four York, one DC-4, one Anson,. one Beaver, one Bristol 170, five Canso, four CurtissC-46, nine DC-3, three Lockheed Electra. Results for year ended December 31st, 1955:31,106 passengers; 283 tons of freight and 413 tons of mail carried; 220,751 ton-miles flown;461 staff. Financial details not available. Matane Air Services, Ltd., was founded in1947 to operate charter services across the St. Lawrence from Matane. Regular services wereopened from Matane to Godbout, Trinity Bay, Pentecote and Shelter Bay. It is possible thatthis company is no longer flying regular ser- vices and the points listed here are now servedby Quebecair. The details below have been received from Matane Air Services.Head Office: Matane, Quebec, Canada. Executives: E. Burnett, president; G. Burnett,managing director. Fleet: three Cessna Crane, one Piper PA-12,one Lockheed 10A; on order, one Lockheed 10A (1956). Results for year ended December 31st, 1955:8,610 passengers; 29 tons of freight carried; 1,691 ton-miles flown; eight full time and sixpart time staff. Financial details not available. Mercury International Company Airlines, operates local services between San Bernardino and Los Angeles, Riverside, Big Bear Lake andVictorville. Head Office: San Bernardino, Cal., U.S.A.Fleet: Cessna 195, Beech Bonanza. Middle East Airlines Co. S.A.—MEA, wasfounded as a private concern in 1945. In 1949 Pan American Airways acquired 36 per cent ofMEA's stock but the company has now with- drawn and B.O.A.C. holds the controllinginterest in MEA. Services are operated from Beirut to Aleppo, Ankara, Athens, Baghdad,Bahrein, Cairo, Dhahran, Jerusalem, Kuwait, Nicosia and Rome. The Viscounts introducedlast year, following the brief use of Hermes 4s, were supplied by Hunting-Clan Air Transportvia MASCO. Head Office: Beirut, Lebanon.Executives: H.E. Sa'eb Bey Salaam, chairman; Sheikh Najib Alamuddin, managing director.Fleet: two Viscount 732, seven DC-3. In 1954 MEA carried more than 45,000 pas-sengers and 1,000 tons of freight and mail. Midway Airlines has since 1951 been operat-ing scheduled services linking the Chicago air- ports. Cessna 195A single-engined aircraftwere operated until their recent replacement by Doves. The latest published schedules showedup to 15 services a day between Midway Air- port and Northbrook Sky Harbor, lla day be-tween Midway and St. Charles, and four on Mondays to Fridays between Midway andMeigs Field. Financial difficulties brought about the suspension of services on March 3rdthis year and it is reported that new financial backing is being sought.Head Office: Chicago, 111., U.S.A. Executives: H. Riddle, president. .' ...Fleet: Dove, Cessna 195. Minhaiduy (Airline of People's DemocraticChina) is successor to Skoga, which was formed in 1952 as a joint Soviet - Chineseundertaking. In 1954 Soviet participation was withdrawn. Minhaiduy now has about 9,500miles of routes with a considerable domestic A Ponagro Douglas DC-7B at Lima Airport, Peru. The weather radar nose can be distinguished.
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