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FLIGHT, 3 May 1957 609 WORLD AIRLINE DIRECTORY . . . over the assets and staff of Parks Air Lines andbegan scheduled operations between St. Louis and Chicago; the first of these was flown onSeptember 26, 1950. The company now has permanent certifica-tion and operates 4,906 miles of routes serving 49 cities in nine Mid-West states.Head Office: St. Louis, Missouri, U.S.A. Executives: B. T. Mattingly, chairman; L.Hamilton, president; A. Blumeyer, vice-presi- dent; F. W. Jones, treasurer; A. G. Heyne,secretary. Fleet: 20 DC-3. Results for year ended December 31. 1956:317,197 passengers; 80,465 freight and 115,452 mail ton-miles flown; total ton-milesflown 4,932,283; total costs, £2,100,417; total revenue, £2,061,917; 693 staff. Pacific Northern Airlines, Inc., calls itself"The Alaska Flag Line" and came into being in 1932 as Woodley Airways. A post officemail contract was awarded in 1934 and in 1938 the airline received C.A.B. certification. Thepresent company was incorporated in 1945 and in 1951 P.N.A. was granted a certificate byC.A.B. to connect its Alaskan routes with Seattle - Tacoma and Portland. Services arenow operated within Alaska and between Alaskan points and Seattle and Portland.Head Office: Seattle, Washington, U.S.A. Executives: A. G. Woodley, president: J. A.Cunningham, vice-president operations; Harold A. Olsen, vice-president traffic and sales; J. H.Foster, vice-president engineering and main- tenance. Fleet: three L.749 Constellation, two DC-4,four DC-3. Results for year ended December 31, 1956:117,032 passengers; 3,364,354 freight and 904,124 mail ton-miles flown; total costs,approx. £3,303,000; total revenue, approx. £3,570,000; 500 staff. Pacific Southwest Airlines—PSA, operatesservices linking San Diego, Los Angeles and San Francisco. Head Office: San Diego, Cal., U.S.A.Executives: K. G. Friedkin, president; H. N. Wood, traffic and sales manager; J. F. Andrews,chief of operations. Fleet: DC-4. Pacific Western Airlines, Ltd.—PWA, was founded in 1946 as Central British ColumbiaAirways, and has become the third largest air- line in Canada. The company operates anextensive network of scheduled and non- scheduled routes throughout British Columbia,Alberta, the Yukon, the Northwest Territories and Alaska. PWA has also been one of theprime contractors operating the extensive air lift in connection with defence projects inCanada's extreme north. Head Office: Vancouver, B.C., Canada.Executives: K. T- Springer, chairman; R. Baker, president; D. F. Granger, secretary/treasurer.Fleet: includes DC-3, C-46, Canso, Anson 5, Norseman, Stranraer, Beaver, Stinson 108,Junkers-W34, Mallard, Cessna 180, Fairchild 71.Results for year ended December 31, 1956: 101,444 passengers; 284,940 kg of freight and68,053 k? of mail carried; 110,767 ton-km flown; 615 staff. Financial statistics notavailable. Pakistan International Airlines Corporationwas founded by the Government of Pakistan on April 1st, 1955, when P.I.A. took overOrient Airways. As a company P.I.A. had been founded in 1951 to operate services to Europe;its first actual operations were between East and West Pakistan in 1954. Service to Londonwas begun early in 1955. The Corporation is now responsible for the operation of all Pakis-tani air services. Head Office: Karachi, Pakistan.Executives: Z. Ahsan, general manager; M. M. Salim, executive asst. to general manager;N. G. Hemsworth, flight operations manager; E. Jamall, engineering manager; J. S. Mirza,traffic and sales manager. Fleet: three L.1049C, four Convair 240, tenDC-3. On order: three Viscount 815. Results for year ended December 31, 1955:84,508 passengers; 3,067 tons of freight and 2,061 tons of mail carried; 11,075,000 ton-km Philippine Air use o number of de Havilland Otters on local services. flown; 2,108 staff. Financial details not avail-able. Panagra—see Pan American-Grace Airways,Inc. Panair do Brasil, S.A. In October 1929 theBrazilian Government authorized New York, Rio and Buenos Aires Line Inc. (NYRBA) tooperate services in Brazil, and Nyrba do Brasil was created as a Bazilian subsidiary. A servicewas begun between Rio de Janeiro and Belem. In August 1930 Pan American Airways tookover both NYRBA and Nyrba do Brasil and the latter became Panair do Brasil on Septem-ber 15th that year. PAB developed services with Sikorsky S-38 and Consolidated Com-modore flying-boats. These were later replaced by Fairchild 91s and Sikorsky S-43s and,although Panair now operates an extensive Brazilan and South American route networkwith DC-3s and Constellations, Catalinas still operate the Amazon routes. Panair operatesservices from South America to London, Ham- burg, Frankfurt, Dusseldorf, Paris, Zurich,Rome, Madrid, Lisbon, Istanbul and Beirut. Head Office: Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.Executives: Dr. A. H. Machado, president; Dr. C. P. de Mello, dir. superintendent; Dr. A. T.Filho, secretary. Fleet: 10 Constellation, 14 DC-3, four DC-7C,four Convair PBY-5A. Results for year ended December 31, 1956:335,867 passengers; 5,056,155 kg of freight and 469,551 kg of mail carried; 88,857,786 ton-km flown; total costs, £7,617,704; total revenue, £8,158,737; 4,313 staff. Pan American-Grace Airways, Inc., (Pan-agra), was founded in 1929 by the Grace Shipping Line and Pan American Airways,each holding half the shares. In 1928 Pan American Airways was awarded a mail contractfor a service from Florida to Panama, and in the following year Panagra successfully bid for amail contract covering a route from Panama down the west coast of South America andacross the Andes to Buenos Aires. By the end of 1929 the complete route was in operation.The company's routes have been gradually extended and after a long fight, much of itagainst Pan American, Panagra has succeeded in securing entry to New York through inter-change agreements with P.A.A. and National Airlines. Operating over the routes of thethree companies Panagra DC-7Bs were intro- duced on August 1, 1955, and under the titleof El Inter Americano daily services are flown between New York and Buenos Aires. It wasrecently stated that PanAm is to sell its Panagra interests. Head Office: New York, U.S.A. Executives: A. B. Shea, president; D. Camp- bell, vice-pres./gen. mgr.; L. H. Clifton, vice- president/comptroller; C. S. Collins, vice- president traffic and sales. Fleet: four DC-3, three DC-4, four DC-6 (leased out), four DC-6B owned, one DC-6B leased, five DC-7B. On order: one DC-7B, four DC-8.Ret'ih* for year ended December 31, 1956: 141,200 passengers; 3,568,000 kg of freightand 582,000 kg of mail carried; 22,801,925 ton-miles flown; 1,401 staff. Financial detailsnot available. Pan American World Airways, Inc., is the only major U.S. airline concerned entirely with overseas operation. Pan American Airways,Inc., was founded in March 1927 and began operation of its first route, between Key Westand Havana, in October 1927. Fokker mono- planes were used. P.A.A. extended its opera-tion throughout the Caribbean and built up flying-boat services, which by 1931 had reachedthe Argentine. P.A.A. was a great pioneer of transocean flying and by 1935 had establishedservices between San Francisco and Manila via Honolulu, Midway, Wake and Guam. HongKong was served from 1936. In 1937 New York-Bermuda services were opened in co-operation with Imperial Airways and in the same year the two companies began trans-atlantic survey flights. Passenger service began in 1939. The airline now operates a routenetwork of more than 60,000 miles, serves all continents and has regular round the worldflights. Pan American took its present title in 1949. The airline has absorbed a number ofother airlines including American Overseas Airlines and it has interests in numerous car-riers, particularly in Latin America. P.A.A. has been a particularly strong advocate ofcheap fares and mass air travel. Pan American is also operating the 1,000 mile long missilerange, stretching from Florida to beyond Puerto Rico, for the U.S.A.F.Head Office: New York, U.S.A. Executives: J.T.Trippe, president; J.C. Leslie,vice-president administration; S. F. Pryor, vice- president/asst. to president; H. J. Friendly,vice-president /general counsel; W.L.Morrison, vice-president Latin American Division; H. E.Gray, vice-president Atlantic Division; C. M. Young, vice-president Pacific-Alaska Division.Fleet: 25 Stratocruiser, 33 DC-7C (in course of delivery), seven DC-7B, 44 DC-6B, threeDC-6A, 26 DC-4, five L.49, five Convair 240, three DC-3. On order: 25 DC-8 (start 1959),six Boeing 707-120 (start 1958), 17 Boeing 707-320 (start 1958). Four DC-6 leased fromPanagra. Results for year ended December 31, 1955:2,200,000 passengers; 75,600,000 freight ton- miles and 34,700,000 mail ton-miles flown; totalcosts, £80,492,850; total revenue, £85,035,710; 19,262 staff. Peninsula Air Transport is a U.S. supple- mental air carrier operating scheduled services on an irregular basis from Miami to St. Peters- burg, Philadelphia, New York, Chicago, Detroit and Milwaukee. Head Office: Miami, Florida, U.S.A. No other details available. Persian Air Services, in which Skyways of London is believed to have an interest, operates freight services from Teheran to Beirut, Abadan, Kuwait, Brindisi and Basle. Head Office: Teheran, Iran. Fleet: Avro York. Philippine Air Lines—PAL, began in 1932as the Philippine Aerial Taxi Company. The company was reorganized and took its presentname in 1941. Following the war the com- pany developed its operations, and in 1947 and1948 PAL took over two other Philippine concerns—Far Eastern Air Transport andCommercial Air Lines. Long distance overseas services were inaugurated to Europe and acrossthe Pacific to the U.S.A., but in 1954 PAL abandoned its long distance services and now
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