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480 FLIGHT WORLD AIRLINE DIRECTORY . . . Head Office: Burbank, Cal., U.S.A.Executives: D. W. Rentzel, chairman/president; E. F. Slick, chmn., exec, cttee. (portrait, p.484),H. P. Huff, vice-president operations and main- tenance; J. W. Walbert, secretary; H. J. Ruppel,treasurer. Fleet: 17 Curtiss C-46, three DC-6A, threeDC-4; on order, three DC-6A (1956-57). Results for year ended December 31st, 1955:10,240 passengers (non-scheduled); 27,519 tons of freight and mail carried (total); 55,977,066ton-miles flown (total); total costs £4,821,428; total revenue £4,464,285; 1,505 staff. Sobelair, Societe Beige de Transports parAir, S.A., began operations between Belgium and the Congo soon after the war as an in-dependent airline, and the company still oper- ates between these points. The managingdirector of Sabena is Sobelair"s chairman. Head Office: Brussels, Belgium.Executives: G. Claeys, chairman/managing director; A. Philippe, general manager; P. Ber-tin, commercial manager; J. Carlier, operations manager. Fleet: one DC-4, one DC-3; on order, oneDC-4 (April 1956). Results for year ended December 31st, 1955:4,100 passengers; 40.5 tons of freight carried; 3,205,373 ton-km flown; 45 staff. Financialdetails not available. Sociedade Acoriana de Transportes Aereos,Ltda.—SATA. This company began opera- tions in 1948 and now has 313 miles of routes.Six services a week are operated between Sao Miguel and Santa Maria and three of thesecontinue to Terceira after calling at Sao Miguel. Head Office: Sao Miguel, Azores.Executives: A. M. S. Noqueira, general mana- ger; J. A. Neves, chief engineer; V. A. Portugal,traffic manager. Fleet: two Dove, one D.H.82.In 1953 SATA carried 4,400 passengers and flew 48,500 revenue ton-miles. Sociedade Anonima Viacao Aerea Gaucha—SAVAG. Founded in 1946 as a private com- pany to operate services in the State of RioGrande, the original fleet consisted of three Lodestars. Present routes are from RioGrande to Porto Alegre via Pelotas and from Porto Alegre to Bage, and to Erechim via Cara-sinho and Passo Fundo. Cruzeiro do Sul sup- plies SAVAG with crews and provides main-tenance, technical assistance and also handles reservations. Head Office: Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil.Executives: E. C. Becker, president; V. V. de Fonseca, vice-president; T. Fruet, operationsmanager. Fleet: DC-3.Traffic statistics not available. Sokao (Soviet-North Korean Airline) wasfounded in 1950 as a joint Soviet-North Korean concern to connect North Korea withthe Aeroflot services to Moscow. Services were suspended when the North Koreans invadedSouth Korea and only resumed in 1953. Sokao now flies four services a week from Feng-Yangto Chita in the U.S.S.R. via Mukden and Har- bin. In addition there are four weekly servicesbetween Feng-Yang and Mukden. Head Office: Feng-Yang, North Korea.Fleet: Li-2. South African Airways was formed in 1934to take over Union Airways, and the airline is owned and controlled by the Governmentthrough the South African Railways and Har- bours Administration. In 1935 the new air-line acquired South West African Airways. SAA now operates an internal network ofroutes and also has services to Rhodesia and via Cairo to London. Head Office: Johannesburg, Transvaal, Unionof South Africa. Executives: Mai-Gen. C. J. Venter, airwaysmanager; J. D. T. Louw, commercial super- intendent. Fleet: three DC-7B, four L-749A, seven DC-4,four DC-3. In 1954 SAA carried 218,000 passengers and2,700 tons of freight and mail. Southern Airlines, Ltd., was founded in April 1955 and operates services from Mel- bourne to Sale, Bairnsdale, Shepparton, Bcn- A Douglas DC-7 of United Air Lines. alia, Warrnambool, Echuca and Balranald.Free insurance is provided for all passengers with signed valid tickets.Head Office: Melbourne, Victoria, Australia. Fleet: Dove, Anson. Southern Airways, Inc., was founded in July1943 and began operations in June 1949. About 2,500 miles of routes are operated in Georgia,Alabama, Mississippi, Louisiana, Tennessee, Florida and North and South Carolina.Head Office: Birmingham, Alabama, U.S.A. Executives: F. W. Hulse, president; C. M.Britt, vice-president sales; W. S. MaGill, vice- president operations; G. Estey, secretary/treasurer. Fleet: 12 DC-3. Results for year ended December 31st, 1955:168,993 passengers; 530 tons of mail carried; 3,118,535 ton-miles flown; total costs£1,240,722; total revenue £1,274,032; 435 staff. South West Air Transport (Pty.), Ltd., hasfor several years been operating feeder services connecting with South African Airways' flightsat Windhoek. The present operations include three weekly services between Windhoek andOtjiwarongo, Outjo, Tsumeb and Grootfontein. Head Office: Windhoek, South West Africa.Executive: P. H. M. Du Plessis, chairman; G. T. van Rooyen, manager; A. K. L. Finke,chief engineer. Fleet: six Ryan Navion, one D.H.89.Results for year ended December 31st, 1955: 2,500 passengers carried; 11 staff. Otherdetails not available. ..-. , Southwest Airways Company was foundedin 1941 and began airline operation at the end of 1946 when it opened its San Francisco - LosAngeles route. The company now has 1,300 miles of routes all within California, except forits services to Medford in the south of Oregon. Southwest was a pioneer of the quick turn-round at intermediate points with stops of only one to two minutes. At refuelling stops theturn-round time is six minutes. The company is reported to be negotiating with Fairchild forthe purchase of some Fokker Friendships. Head Office: San Francisco, Cal., U.S.A.Executives: L. Hayward, chairman; J. H. Connelly, president/general manager; T. R.Mitchell, executive vice-president; A. W. John- son, vice-president/treasurer; R. E. Costello,vice-president traffic and sales. Fleet: 10 DC-3, five Martin 2-0-2; on order,one Martin 2-0-2 (1956). Results for year ended December 31st, 1955:236,083 passengers; 1,277.3 tons of freight and 606.5 tons of mail carried; 5,255,865 ton-milesflown; total costs £1,452,676; total revenue £1,516,422; 390 staff. Sudan Airways is government-owned andbegan operations in 1947. Routes extend throughout the Sudan from Wadi Haifa in thenorth to Juba in the south; and from Geneina in the west to Port Sudan in the east. Inter-national routes serve Jeddah, Cairo, Beirut; and Abeche in French Equatorial Africa.Head Office: Khartoum, Sudan. Executives: A. B. Mohd, general manager (por-trait, p.484); Y. Bakheit, traffic supt. (admin.); M. H. A. Bashendi, traffic superintendent(technical); M. El Amir, sales superintendent; C. E. Blake, chief accountant; Capt. R. L. C.Branson, chief pilot; A. C. Watts, chief engineer; H. Ahmed, operations superin-tendent. Fleet: four DC-3, four Dove; on order, oneDC-3 (1956). Results for year ended December 31st, 1955:25,296 passengers; 380 tons of freight and 40 tons of mail carried; 1,302,697 ton-miles flown;492 staff. Total costs (July 1954-June 1955) £466,083 approx.; total revenue (July 1954-June 1955) £453,554 approx. Swissair—Swiss Air Transport Co., Ltd.,was founded on March 26th, 1931, by the amalgamation of Ad Astra Aero A.G. and theBasle Air Traffic Co., known as Balair. Ad Astra was founded in 1919 and began flying-boat services linking Swiss cities, before pion- eering international routes. Thus Swissair canclaim, with its predecessors, 36 years of con- tinuous operation, although its activities wereseverely restricted during the war. Since the war the company has grown rapidly and it nowoperates a network of European routes, and has services to North and South America and theNear East. Swissair has always pioneered the use ofmodern equipment, first with Lockheed Orions Dr. W. Berchtold, president, Swissair. and later with DC-2s and DC-3s. Continuingthis tradition, Swissair has now placed an order for two DC-8s. Head Office: Zurich, Switzerland.Executives: Dr. W. Berchtold, president; E. Groh, vice-president finance; L. L. Ambord,.vice-president traffic and sales; R. Fretz, vice- president operations. Fleet: six DC-6B, seven Convair 240, threeDC-4, nine DC-3; on order, eight Convair 440 (1956), four DC-7C (1956/57), two DC-8(1960). Results for year ended December 31st, 1955:630,719 passengers; 8,486.8 tons of freight and 3,317.2 tons of mail carried; 95,193,537 ton-km flown; 3,223 staff. Financial details not available. Syrian Airways Company was formed in1946 and began operations in 1947. Financial difficulties caused the suspension of services in1948, but after receiving Government support operations were resumed in 1951. The com-
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