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610 [FLIGHT Varig, one of Brazil's international operators, to New York. Brazil is second only to flies Lockheed Super Constellations on its route the U.S.A. in terms of passengers carried. WORLD AIRLINE DIRECTORY . . . operates only within the Philippine Republicand to Hong Kong. Head Office: Manila, Republic of the Philip-pines. Executives: A. Soriano, president; R. Yoga,vice-president/treasurer. Fleet: 25 DC-3, one Convair 340, three Otter,two Hiller UH 12B, On order; two Viscount. Results for year ended December 31, 1954:258,435 passengers; 3,696,000 freight ton-km and 433,000 mail ton-km flown; total ton-km15,680,000; 1,757 staff. Financial details not available. Piedmont Airlines—see Piedmont Aviation,Inc. Piedmont Aviation, Inc., was founded in1940 as a fixed base operator and began local service operations in 1948. Trading as Pied-mont Airlines the company now has about 2,800 miles of routes in North and SouthCarolina, Tennessee, Virginia and West Vir- ginia, Kentucky and Ohio.Head Office: Winston-Salem, North Carolina, U.S.A. Executives: T. H. Davis, president/treasurer;R. D. Hager, vice-president traffic; H. K. Saunders, vice-president operations; M. F.Fare, Secretary. Fleet: 17 DC-3. On order: 12 Friendship.Results for year ended December 31, 1956: 405,153 passengers; 7,854,801 revenue ton-miles flown. Other details not available. Pioneer Air Lines—see Continental Air Lines. PLUNA—see Primeras Lineas Uruguayasde Navegacion Aerea. Polskie Linie Lotnicze—LOT, was formedby the Government in 1929 to take over the operations of the private companies Aerolotand Aero of Poznan. By the start of the war LOT had established itself as a well run air-line with a modern fleet of Electras and Lock- heed 14s. Part of this fleet was brought toEngland and served with B.O.A.C. The air- line flies domestic services and also to Athens,Belgrade, Berlin, Brussels, Bucharest, Buda- pest, Copenhagen, Moscow, Paris, Prague,Sofia, Stockholm, Vienna and Vilno. Head Office: Warsaw, Poland.Executives: S. Minorski, general director; M. Rolski, commercial director.Fleet: Li-2, 11-14, 11-12. Results for year ended December 31, 1955:154,822 passengers; 666,000 freight ton-km and 398,000 mail ton-km flown; total ton-km5,737,000; other details not available. Primeras Lineas Uruguayas de NavegacionAerea—PLUNA, began operations as a private company in 1936 but in 1943 it was re-organized, with the Government taking a 49 per cent interest. The Government share later rose to 83 per cent and subsequently 94 per cent, before becoming completely Govern- ment-owned in 1951. Pluna operates domestic services and routes to the Argentine, Bolivia, Brazil and Paraguay. Head Office: Montevideo, Uruguay. Executives: Col. E. B. Vaeza, president; D. D. Cibils, general manager; R. Langon, operations manager; M. Artagaveytia, traffic manager. Fleet: six DC-3, four Heron. On order: two Viscount 770. Traffic statistics not available. Provincetown-Boston Airline operates feeder services between Provincetown Municipal Air- port and Logan Airport, Boston, under the title "The Route of the Pilgrims." Head Office: Provincetown, Mass., U.S.A. Executives: J. C. van Arsdale, president/ treasurer. Fleet: Lockheed Electra and Cessna 190. No traffic figures available. "Q" Airways—see Aerovias "Q," S.A. Qantas Empire Airways, Ltd., was foundedin January 1934 by Q.A.N.T.A.S. and Imperial Airways for the operation of the Singapore -Brisbane section of the England - Australia air route then about to be established. Q.A.N.T.A.S.(Queensland and Northern Territory Aerial Services) was founded on November 16, 1920,and on November 2, 1922, the company opened its first service between Charlevilleand Cloncurry. This was the first air service in eastern Australia and it was operated byArmstrong Whitworth FK.8 biplanes. Qantas now operates a network of routes in the south-west Pacific and New Guinea areas; to Europe; to the Philippines, Hong Kong and Tokyo;across the Indian Ocean to South Africa; and, since taking over B.C.P.A. in 1954, a trans-Pacific route to Honolulu, San Francisco and Vancouver, British Columbia. This trans-Pacific route now connects with B.O.A.C.'s new London - San Francisco route to form atwo-carrier all-Commonwealth round-the- world service. Head Office: Sydney, N.S.W., Australia.Executives: Sir Hudson Fysh, chairman; C. O. Turner, chief executive /general manager; Capt.G. U. Allan, asst, general manager; Capt. R. J. Ritchie, technical manager; C. W. Nielson,commercial manager; F. C. Derham, finance manager / secretary. Fleet: 12 L.1049G, two L.1049H, five DC-4,eight DC-3, four Beaver, one Drover, two Catalina. On order: seven Boeing 707 (1959),two L.1049G (1957). Results for year ended December 31, 1956:129,618 passengers; 2,980,000 kg of freight and 1,446,000 kg of mail carried; 66,663,578ton-miles flown; 5,867 staff. Financial details not available. Quebecair, Inc., was incorporated in 1947as Rimouski Airlines, Ltd., and took its present name in 1953. Services are operated acrossand on either side of the St. Lawrence from Quebec in the west to Port Menier andSchefferville in the east. Head Office: Rimouski, P.Q., Canada.Executives: A Dionne, president; C. Delisle, operations manager. Fleet: two DC-4, six DC-3, three Canso, threeBeaver, one Beech 18. On order: two Friend- ship (1958).In 1953 the company carried 68,800 pas- sengers and 670 tons of freight. Queensland Airlines Pty., Ltd., was the nametaken by Aircrafts Pty., Ltd., in 1947 when Butler Air Transport acquired control of thecompany by purchasing 93 per cent of the out- standing stock. Working under its separateidentity, Queensland Airlines has a network of services in Queensland and south to Sydney,N.S.W, The company is now negotiating for Handley Page Heralds with Rolls-Royce Dartengines. Head Office: Brisbane, Queensland, Australia.Executives: R. S. Adair, managing director; D. C. McDonough, traffic manager; M. B.Mitchell, operations manager; A. Probert, chief engineer. Fleet: three DC-3. Results for year ended December 31, 1956: 57,252 passengers; 1,370,000 kg of freight and 15,850 kg of mail carried; 42 staff. RANSA—see Rutas Aereas Nacionales,S.A. REAL Aerovias Nacional is the new titleadopted by Transportes Aereos REAL, S.A, since its recent take-over of National Trans-portes Aereos. REAL was originally founded in 1946 and by a series of mergers and acquisi-tion of interest in other airlines the company is now the largest Brazilian airline. Comingunder REAL'S control earlier were Transportes Aerovias Brasil (Brazilian International Air-lines) and Aeronorte. In addition to its Brazilian services REAL operates to the Argen-tine, Uruguay, Trinidad, Venezuela, Miami and Chicago. Unduplicated route mileage isbelieved to exceed 60,000 and the total staff numbers about 5,000.Head Office: Sao Paulo, Brazil. Executives: Not known since latest reorgani-zation. Fleet: 86 DC-3, eight Convair 440, six Con- These red-and-white-painted de Havilland Beavers are used in New Guinea by Qantas Empire Airways. As in other places, the Beaver has proved valuable for outback duties.
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