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598 FLIGHT WORLD AIRLINE DIRECTORY . . . Braathen, vice-president; E. Froysaa, commer-cial manager; J. Raad, operations manager. Fleet: two DC-4, one DC-3, three Heron; onorder: three Fokker Friendship (1958/59), one Electra (1959) and option on two Friendship.Results for year ended December 31, 1956: 50,225 passengers; 183,000 kg of freight and97,100 kg of mail carried; 1,320,342 ton-km flown; 360 staff. Financial details not available. Braniff International Airways Inc. Theoriginal Braniff company was founded in 1928 by Paul and Tom Braniff; and the line's firstaeroplane, a Stinson Detroiter, bore the title Tulsa-Oklahoma City Airline on its fuselage.In 1929 the airline became part of the Univer- sal Aviation Corporation and in 1930 BraniffAirways was organized as an independent company. The word International was addedto the title in 1948, when services were begun to Havana and Lima. The airline now operatesmore than 15,000 miles of routes in the United States and to South America. The SouthAmerican routes are via the west coast to Lima, from where they branch to Sao Paulo and Riode Janeiro, La Paz, Asuncion and Buenos Aires. In 1952 Mid-Continent Airlines wasmerged with Braniff. Head Office: Dallas, Texas, U.S.A.Executives: C.E. Beard, president; J.W. Miller, executive vice-president; R. V. Carleton, vice-president operations; O. W. Crane, treasurer. Fleet: nine DC-6, 26 Convair 340; 24 DC-3,seven DC-7C, Convair 440. On order: nine Lockheed Electra, five Boeing 707.Results for year ended December 31, 1956: 1,820,673 passengers; 86,439,335 revenue ton-miles flown. Other details not available. British European Airways Corporation—see page 588. British Guiana Airways, Ltd. In 1934A. J. Williams, a U.S. citizen, began charter operations in British Guiana with a single-engined Ireland flying-boat. British Guiana Airways was founded by Mr. Williams tooperate regular subsidized services in 1939. The company now flies numerous domesticservices and also operates flying-boat services from British Guiana to Trinidad, Grenada,St. Lucia, Barbados, St. Vincent, Martinique and Dominica. Head Office: Georgetown, British Guiana.Executives: Lt-Col. A. J. Williams, O.B.E., managing director; H. E. Wendt, generalmanager. Fleet: three DC-3, two Goose.In 1953 the company carried more than 3,500 passengers. British Honduras Airways, Ltd., bought theassets of the Airline Division of British Colonial Airlines on October 24th, 1956, andis operating the services worked by the earlier company which was incorporated in March1952. Scheduled services are operated between Corozal and Punta Gorda via Belize and StannCreek. There are eight intermediate flag stops. Non-scheduled operations serve a score ofother places in the territory. Head Office: Belize, British Honduras.Executive: Col. T. S. Baker, manager. Fleet: Cessna 170.Traffic statistics not available. British Overseas Airways Corporation—see page 587. British West Indian Airways, Ltd., is awholly owned subsidiary of B.O.A.C. The original concern was organized in 1940 andbegan operations with one Lodestar. In 1947 British South American Airways acquired con-trol of B.W.I.A. and this passed to B.O.A.C. when it took over B.S.A.A. In 1949 B.O.A.C.took over British Caribbean Airways and merged its operations with those of B.W.I.A.A considerable network of Caribbean services is operated and Viscounts have now been intro-duced on the following routes:—Trinidad- Barbados - San Juan - Bermuda - New York;Bermuda - New York; Nassau - Miami; King- ston - Montego Bay - Grand Cayman - Miami;Kingston - Caracas - Trinidad; and Trinidad - Barbados-San Juan.Head Office: Port of Spain, Trinidad. Executives: Sir Errol Dos Santos, O.B.E.,chairman; J. H. Rahr, general manager; L. G. S. Australian National Airways' Douglas DC-6B "Bungana" works with others of its type on A.N.A.'s extensive network of trunk services based on Melbourne. Hyland, assistant gen. man.; Capt. P. Kelshall,technical manager. Fleet: five Viking, three DC-3, four Viscount.On order: four Viscount (1957). Results for year ended December 31, 1956:88,833 passengers; 534,109 kg of freight and 152,270 kg of mail carried; 6,239,861 ton-miles flown; 1,066 staff. Butler Air Transport, Ltd., was founded in1934 to operate a Charleville-Cootamundra service connecting with the Imperial Airways-Qantas England-Australia route. The airline was registered as a public company in 1952 anda large proportion of the stock is owned by company staff. In 1947 acquired the control-ling interest in Queensland Airlines. Butler Air Transport operates about 9,000 miles ofroutes from Sydney to towns in New South Wales, with some short penetrations intoQueensland. BAT has been getting very high utilization with its Viscounts into which it hasbuilt its own air-stairs. Head Office: Sydney, N.S.W., Australia.Executives: C. A. Butler, chairman/managing director; T. Williams, general manager; T. R.Young, operations manager. Fleet: two Viscount, five DC-3.Results for year ended December 31, 1955: 158,442 passengers; 2,684 tons of freight and10 tons of mail carried; total costs, £732,672; total revenue, £769,880; 308 staff. Financialdetails for year ended June 30. BWIA—see British West Indian Airways. Byerly Airlines operates a daily service fromJacksonville, Illinoisj to Peoria where it con- nects with T.W.A. flights to and from Chicago.Head Office: Peoria, 111., U.S.A. Fleet: Lockheed Electra, Beech Bonanza.. California Central Airlines was founded in1947 as an intrastate carrier, began scheduled services in 1949 and now thought to operateservices Unking San Diego, the Los Angeles airports, San Francisco and Oakland. At oneperiod the company was operating some Martin 2-0-2s but following financial difficul-ties and disputes with the C.A.B., these air- craft were disposed of.Head Office: Burbank, Cal., U.S.A. Executives: Col. C. C. Sherman, president/director of operations; E. K. Sherman, secre- tary/treasurer. Fleet: reported as one DC-3.Traffic statistics not available. Canadian Pacific Air Lines, Ltd., wasfounded in 1942 by the Canadian Pacific Rail- way to acquire ten of the "bush" airlines, bestknown of which was Canadian Airways. C.P.A. operated a network of services in west andnorthwest Canada; a smaller network in the Winnipeg area; and a third system in Quebecand Labrador. These were part of the over- all C.P.R. system including railways and ships.In 1949 the company opened two trans-Pacific routes, the first via Honolulu, Canton and Fiji to Sydney, and the second via Anchorage,Shemya and Tokyo to Hong Kong. In 1955 a trans-Polar route was opened between Van-couver and Amsterdam. The eastern Canada services have now been taken over by T.C.A.The airlines' main trunk routes now extend from Sydney and Auckland to Amsterdam via Fiji,Honolulu and Vancouver and from Buenos Aires to Hong Kong via Lima, Mexico City,Vancouver and Tokyo. There are also services between Toronto and Mexico.Head Office: Vancouver, B.C., Canada. Executives: G. W. G. McConachie, president;R. W. Ryan, executive vice-president; H. B. Renwick, vice-pres. traffic; R. B. Phillips, vice-pres. operations. Fleet: seven DC-6B, one DC-4, five Convair240, eight Curtiss C-46F, 13 DC-3, two Canso, two Otter. On order: eight DC-6B (1957/58),six Britannia 314 (1957/58), option on further five Britannia (1959/60).Results for year ended December 31, 1956: 251,542 passengers; 5,029,000 kg of freight and1,425,000 kg of mail carried; 30,976,288 ton- miles flown; total costs, £9,704,340; totalrevenue, £9,931,461; 2,245 staff. Capital Airlines, Inc., can trace its historyback to April 1927 when Skyline Transporta- tion Company began flying mail between Pitts-burgh and Cleveland. The following year Skyline was taken over by Pennsylvania Air-lines and passenger services were begun. In 1936 Pennsylvania Airlines and Central Air-lines (then flying Detroit-Washington mail ser- vices) merged to form Pennsylvania-CentralAirlines. The present name was adopted in 1948. Capital was a pioneer of air coach ser-vices and also the first U.S. airline to introduce turbine-powered aircraft, having placed ordersfor a total of 75 Viscounts. Capital has a large route network in the eastern, north eastern andsoutherr. states. Head Office: Washington, D.C., U.S.A.Executives: J. H. Carmichael, president; R. G. Lochiel, vice-pres./ treas.; J. B. Franklin, vice-president operations; J. W. Austin, vice- president traffic and sales.Fleet: 60 Viscount, 12 Lockheed L-049, 20 DC-4, 20 DC-3. On order: 15 Viscount, fourComet 4, 10 Comet 4A. Results for year ended December 31, 1956:2,984,410 passengers; 86,927,252 revenue ton- miles flown. Other details not available. Caribbean Atlantic Airlines, Inc.—Caribairwas founded in 1939, and in June that year took over the operations of its predecessor, Powel-son Air Service, which had started scheduled services late in 1938. The company nowoperates services within Puerto Rico and to the Dominican Republic and the Virgin Islands.Head Office: San Juan, Puerto Rico. Executives: D. Trigo, president; J. Sierra, vice-president operations; R. B. Forrest, vice- president traffic.Fleet: three DC-3.
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