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604 FLIGHT WORLD AIRLINE DIRECTORY . . . newly formed State-owned Trans-AustraliaAirlines drove Guinea Airways off this route and caused its decline to the status of a smalloperator. Head Office: Adelaide, South Australia.Executives: S. Powell, chairman; C. A. Win- dow, secretary; Capt. N. S. D. Buckley, chiefpilot. Fleet: five DC-3, two Auster.Results for year ended December 31, 1956: 94,292 passengers; 1,433,677 kg of freight and92,460 kg of mail carried; other details not available. Gulf Aviation Co., Ltd., was formed in 1950by Mr. F. Bosworth. The company became a subsidiary of B.O.A.C. in the following year.Eighteen services a week are operated between Bahrein and Dhahran and there are also ser-vices from Bahrein to Doha, Abu Dhabi, Shar- jah and Muscat. Head Office: Bahrein.Executives: G. B. Thompson, chairman; E. H. W. Lewis, executive director/secretary; K. H, N. Bulmer, chief pilot; E. C. Evemy,chief engineer. Fleet: four Dove, two Heron.Traffic figures and financial results not available. Hawaiian Airlines, Ltd., was founded inJanuary 1929 as Inter-Island Airways. The Inter-Island Steam Navigation Company held76 per cent of the original stock, services were begun in November 1929 and Sikorsky amphi-bian biplanes were used. The present title was adopted in 1941 and it was in that year thatDC-3s were first introduced. The airline's services link Hawaii, Maui, Lanai, Molokai,Kauai and Honolulu on Oahu. Head Office: Honolulu, Hawaii.Executives: Stanley C. Kennedy, chairman; Arthur D. Lewis, president; Brian Cooke, vice-president/treasurer; Lionel D. Machado, vice- president operations; Jack C. Tobin, vice-presi-dent sales. Fleet: five Convair 340, eight DC-3.Results for year ended December 31, 1956: 417,980 passengers; 8,552,252 kg of freightand 264,189 kg of mail carried; 4,003,551 ton-km flown; total costs, £1,838,830; totalrevenue, £1,901,568; 553 staff. Hong Kong Airways Ltd. was formed in1947 to operate feeder services connecting main centres of China with B.O.A.C. trunk route atHong Kong. A DC-3 service to Shanghai was opened in December 1947 and in 1948 routeswere opened to Canton and Manila. Since the Communist conquest of China Hong KongAirways has been operating only to Formosa with aircraft chartered from Northwest Airlines.The airline now has two Viscounts and is operating between Hong Kong and Manila,Okinawa and Seoul. In June Viscount ser- vices will be inaugurated to Tokyo.Head Office: Hong Kong. Executives: H. D. M. Barton, chairman; Maj.R. H. Thornton, director; Hon. D. C. Geddes, director; M. A. Snowball, director.Fleet: two Viscount 760D, DC-6 and DC-4. Results for year ended December 31, 1956:8,359 passengers; 221,737 kg of freight and 21,166 kg of mail carried; 959,916 ton-kmflown. Financial details not available. 48 staff. Hunting-Clan African Airways (Pvt) Ltd.,is an offshoot of Hunting-Clan Air Transport, it operates services within the Federation ofRhodesia and Nyasaland and is described as "The Federation's Independent Airline."Third class passenger and cargo services are operated between Salisbury and Lusaka withcompulsory break of journey at Kariba; and between Salisbury and Abercom via Kariba,Lusaka, Ndola and Kasama. Inclusive tour services from Salisbury and Johannesburg toVilanculos are operated in association with Fishair (Pvt.) Ltd. There is a weekly cargoservice between Salisbury and Blantyre and a weekly cargo service between Salisbury andNairobi as part of Hunting-Clan Air Trans- port's "Africargo" operation to and fromLondon. Head Office: Salisbury, Fed. of Rhodesia andNyasaland. Fleet: DC-3, D.H.89. IBERIA-IBERIA. see Compania Mercantil Anonima Icelandair—see Flugfelag Islands h.f. Icelandic Airlines Loftleidir, formed in 1944,has operated services within Iceland and be- tween Iceland and other European destinations,but now confines its activities to the operation of North Atlantic services between New Yorkand Scandinavia, Germany and Luxembourg via Iceland.Fares are substantially below I.A.T.A. rates, although the sectors east of Iceland haveI.A.T.A.-agreed fares. Braathens S.A.F.E. Air- transport of Norway works closely with theIcelandic company. Head Office: Reykjavik, Iceland.Executives: K. Gudlaugsson, chairman; A. Eliasson, general manager.Fleet: four DC-4. On order: two Electra (1959/60). Results for year ended December 31, 1956:21,773 passengers; 232,896 kg of freight and 32,198 kg of mail carried; 16,888,008 ton-kmflown; total costs, £1,109,841; total revenue, £1,217,260; 182 staff. Illini Airlines, Inc., began operating servicesin March 1955 between Sterling, Illinois, and Meigs Field in downtown Chicago. PiperApache aircraft were used and the original frequency was two round-trips on three daysa week. Public demand made necessary the purchase of larger aircraft and two Doves wereacquired in August and October 1955. The company now serves Detroit, Chicago, Rock-ford, Freeport and Rock Falls/Sterling with frequent services from Mondays to Fridays.Head Office: Rockford, Illinois, U.S.A. Executives: Douglas C. Harvey, president;John W. Bowman, first vice-president; Donald H. Swearingen, chief pilot; Leo Masiulis, pas-senger sales manager; Scott McCann, cargo sales manager. Fleet: three Dove. On order: one Heron.Traffic results not available. Indian Airlines Corporation was formed in1953, taking over on August 1 that year the services previously operated by a number ofprivate airlines. Operating 23,600 miles of routes in India and to Afghanistan, Burma,Ceylon, Nepal and East and West Pakistan, the Corporation's operations are divided intothree areas with bases at Bombay, Calcutta and Delhi.I.A.C. is responsible for all Indian internal services but Air-India International flies a fewsuch services as part of its international net- work. Most of the A.I.I, revenue from internalsectors is passed to Indian Airlines. Head Office: New Delhi, India.Executives: S. Prasad, chairman; Y. N. Varma, secretary; J. S. Parakh, financial controller;Capt. J. Chitambar, chief operations and train- ing manager; J. M. Gupta, chief traffic manager.Fleet: six DC-4, 12 Viking, 65 DC-3, eight Heron. On order: 10 Viscount (frommid-1957). Results for year ended March 31, 1956:433,840 passengers; 45,059,000 kg of freight and 5,018,000 kg of mail carried; 33,095,751ton-miles flown; total costs, £6,960,000; total revenue, £5,978,550; 9,000 staff. Iranian Airways (Iranair) was founded as aprivate company in 1944 and began full scale scheduled operations in May 1946. Opera-tions have steadily increased and Iranair's routes now total nearly 9,000 miles and extendacross eight Middle East countries. Fifteen cities are served in Iran and the airline fliesregular services to Pakistan, Afghanistan, Iraq, Kuwait, Syria and Lebanon. Iranair is man-aged under contract by Transocean Air Lines and there are plans for routes to Europe, Asiaand possibly North America. Head Office: Teheran, Iran.Executives: Reza Afshar, chairman and man- aging director; Allan Barrie, general manager;Walter Kyse, operations manager; Leo Nikkari, controller; George Pohle, general traffic man-ager; Robert Martin, general sales manager; Ahmad Majidi, commercial manager; GordonLinscheid, superintendent of maintenance. Fleet: two Convair 240, seven DC-3, two DC-4,two Dove, four D.H.89, one Beechcraft. On order: three Viscount 700 (1957).Results for year ended December 31, 1956: 58,598 passengers; 1,077,951 kg of freight and79,784 kg of mail carried; 4,530,766 ton-km flown; total costs, £743,865 approx.; totalrevenue, £735,592 approx.; 273 staff. Iraqi Airways was founded in 1945 as asubsidiary of the Government-owned Iraqi State Railways. B.O.A.C. supplies certain tech-nical staff as required. Viscounts operate fre- quent services from Baghdad to Basra, Beirut,Damascus, Cairo, and Teheran, and a twice weekly service to London via Istanbul andVienna, and to Athens, Rome and Frankfurt. Vikings will continue to be used on servicesto Bahrain and Kuwait until improvements are made to Kuwait Airport. Services toMosul and Aleppo are also flown by Vikings. Head Office: Baghdad, Iraq.Executives: Kana'an el Askari, manager; A. D. Bennett, technical adviser; T. M. Walters, flightcaptain; C. H. Robinson, chief engineer. Fleet: three Viscount, three Viking, one Dove.On order: one Viscount 773 (October 1957), Viscount 842 (November 1959).Results for year ended December 31, 1956: 53,684 passengers; 310,864 kg of freight and50,778 kg of mail carried; 3,264,758 ton-km flown; total costs and total revenue not avail-able; 285 staff. Japan Air Lines Co., Ltd. (Ninon KoknKabushiki Kaisha), is successor to the Japan Air Lines which was founded by private in-terests in 1951. That company opened domestic services with Martin 2-0-2s andDC-4s which, together with crews, were leased from Northwest Airlines. On October 1st,1953, the new company came into being with the Government holding 50 per cent of thestock. The old J.A.L. routes were taken over and routes were also opened to Hong Kong,Okinawa, Honolulu and San Francisco. Head Office: Tokyo, Japan.Executives: S. Yanagita, president; K. Ishikawa, vice-president; S. Matsuo, managing director.Fleet: five DC-6B, nine DC-4, three Heron, one Beech D.185. On order: four DC-8(1960), four DC-7C (1957/58). Results for year ended December 31, 1956:366,765 passengers; 1,900,743 kg of freight and 1,124,501 kg of mail carried; 43,977,098ton-km flown; total costs £5,366,446; total revenue, £6,230,782; 1,408 staff. Note revenuefigures to year ended September 30, 1956. One of the two Vickers Viscounts recently delivered to Hong Kong Airways. This aircraft is equipped with long-range slipper fuel tanks, seen outboard of the nacelles.
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