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1957
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3 May 1957 613 Fleet: ten DC-3, seven Martin 2-0-2, one Lock-heed 12A for charter. On order: three Friend- ship. Results for year ended December 31, 1956:259,522 passengers; 1,104,396 kg of freight and 685,830 kg of mail carried; 5,909,876 ton-miles flown; total costs,* £1,452,676; total revenue,* £1,516,422; 417 staff.* 1955 financial figures. St. Vincent Government Air Service is be-lieved to be operating services between St. Vincent and Barbados, Dominica, Grenada andTrinidad under charter to British Guiana Air- ways. Fleet: Grumman Goose.No other information available. 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 Aden, Asmara and Cairo. Head Office: Khartoum, Sudan.Executives: A. B. Mohd, general manager; Y. Bakheit, traffic superintendent (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 superintendent. Fleet: five DC-3, four Dove.Results for year ended December 31, 1955: 25,296 passengers; 380 tons of freight and 40tons 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, 38 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 andthe Near East and Far East. Swissair has always pioneered the use ofmodern equipment, first with Lockheed Orions and later with DC-2s and DC-3s. Continuingthis tradition, Swissair has now placed an order for three 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; I. Lack, vice-presidentmaintenance; A. Baltensweiler, vice-president planning. Fleet: two DC-7C, six DC-6B, three DC-4,nine DC-3. On order: 11 Convair 440 (in course of delivery), two DC-7C (1957), threeDC-8 (1960). Results for year ended December 31, 1956:773,956 passengers; 10,421,496 kg of freight and 3,608,345 kg of mail carried; 110,402,912ton-km flown; total costs, £11,284,654; total revenue, £12,742,078; 3,881 staff. 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-pany now flies domestic services and also has international routes to the Lebanon, Egypt,Saudi Arabia, Iraq and Kuwait. Head Office: Damascus, Syria.Executives: not known Fleet: DC-3, DC-4.Traffic statistics not available. T.A.A.—see Trans-Australia Airlines. TABSO—Bulgarian Civil Air Transport,operates domestic services and routes to Bel- grade, Budapest, Prague, Warsaw and Berlin.The airline came into being after the war as the Government's Bulgarske Vazdusne Sob-stenie and in 1949 it became TABSO, in which Bulgaria and the U.S.S.R. each held 50 percent. The U.S.S.R. withdrew its interest in 1954. Head Office: Sofia, Bulgaria.Fleet: Li-2, 11-14. TACA de Honduras, now a subsidiary ofSAHSA, began charter operations in 1931 and became part of the TACA System in 1932.Scheduled services were begun in 1944. The TACA System sold its interests in the companyin 1948. The company operates a domestic network of services.Head Office: Tegucigalpa, Honduras. Executives: A. Rodriguez, president; W. A.Buxbaum, treasurer; C. A. Garcia, secretary. Fleet: DC-3.Traffic statistics not available. TACA International Airlines S.A. wasfounded in Salvador in 1939 as a subsidiary of the U.S. TACA Corporation. AlthoughTACA once controlled a number of airlines, TACA International is now the only one stilloperated by the Corporation. Routes extend from New Orleans and Mexico City throughGuatemala, San Salvador, Tegucigalpa and Managua to San Jose, in Costa Rica, andPanama. A scheduled freight service is oper- ated once a week between New Orleans andGuatemala. Route mileage is 3,980. Head Office: New Orleans, Louisiana, U.S.A.(operating from San Salvador). Executives: R. H. Kreite, president; R. E.Clipson, vice-president operations; J. D. Brook, vice-president traffic; W. B. Daly, treasurer;E. Canas, secretary. Fleet: DC-4.Traffic statistics not available. 148 staff. T.A.E.—see National Greek Airlines (nowOlympic Airways). TAG Airlines, Inc., formerly known as TaxiAir Group began operation in April 1956 of a floatplane service linking downtown Detroitwith downtown Cleveland. The company operates this service during the summer monthsbut cannot use floatplanes off the lakes in winter; to overcome this problem and seasonaltraffic drop the fleet is based on Miami during winter and services are operated to Fort Lauder-dale, Boca Raton, Stuart, Key Largo and Marathon. The company also has rights fornon-scheduled flights between the U.S.A. and Canada. Head Office: Toledo, Ohio.Executives: E. F. Knight, general manager; W. W. Knight, Jr., secretary/treasurer; E. A.Eklund, vice-president operations; W. J. Swann, vice-president sales.Fleet: two Otter, one Beaver. Results for year ended December 31, 1956:3,100 passengers between Detroit and Cleve- land and about 1,500 kg of freight carried onthe same route; 14 staff. Other details not available. T.A.I.—see Compagnie de Transports Aeriens Intercontinentaux. TAN Airlines—see Transportes Aereos Nacionales, S.A. TAP—see Transportes Aereos Portugueses. TAROM—see Transportnri AerieneRomine. TAS—see Transportes Aereos Salvador.Ltda. Tasman Empire Airways, Ltd., was formedin 1940 as a joint British - Australian - New Zealand company for the operation of serviceslinking New Zealand and Australia. Operating Short C-class flying-boats, it maintained duringthe war the only regular passenger service of any kind between the two countries. In 1954Britain withdrew and Teal is now owned jointly by the New Zealand and Australian Govern-ments. DC-6s replaced flying-boats on the trans-Tasman and Fiji services in 1954, but Solents are used on the Coral Route from Fiji to Tahitivia Samoa and Cook Islands, and between Fiji and Tonga. The company has 10,499 miles ofroutes in operation. Head Office: Auckland, New Zealand.Executives: Sir Leonard Isitt, chairman; G. N. Roberts, general manager; J. W. Veale, asst.general manager (commercial); F. A. Reeves, asst. general manager (technical); K. A. Brown-john, operations manager; D. W. Banks, secre- tary; A. A. Watson, accountant.Fleet: three DC-6; two Solent. Results for year ended December 31, 1956:54,036 passengers; 406,353 kg of freight and 364,601 kg of mail carried; 69,145,970 passen-ger-miles flown; total revenue, £1,906,408; 815 staff. T.C.A.—see Trans-Canada Air Lines. TEAL—see Tasman Empire Airways, Ltd. Thai Airways Company, Ltd.—TAC, wasformed in 1951 by the merger of Siamese Air- ways Co., Ltd., and Pacific Overseas Airlines(Siam), Ltd. The Government is believed to hold almost the entire stock. Thai Airwaysmaintains domestic services and also operates to Calcutta, Rangoon, Hong Kong, Formosa,Tokyo, Vientiane, Saigon, Phnompenh, Siem- reap, Penang and Singapore.Head Office: Bangkok, Thailand. Executives: Air Chief Marshal Luang ChertVuddhakas, chairman; Sphrang Devahastin, chief executive; A.V-M. Luang Kora Kosya-karj, managing director overhaul base; Sakol Rasananda, managing director airline.Fleet: two DC-4, five DC-3, two Norseman. On order: three L.1049G (1957).Results for year ended December 31, 1956: 85,728 passengers; 768,172 kg of freight and284,686 kg of mail carried; 6,383,539 ton-km flown; total costs, £1,146,563; total revenue,£1,068,336; 770 staff. Trans-Air, Ltd., was formed recently by theamalgamation of Central Northern Airways and Arctic Wings. Central Northern Airways wasformed in 1947 to acquire and operate some bush routes formerly operated, in Saskatchewan,Manitoba and Ontario, by Canadian Pacific Air Lines. Arctic Wings, based at Churchill onHudson Bay, had been operating scheduled passenger and mail flights north to Baker Lakeand south to Fort Severn. Charter flights and occasional mail services extended to the farnorth and served Arctic Bay and Pond Inlet on Baffin Island. Head Office: Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada.Executives: M. E. Ashton, chairman; R. D. Turner, president; G. H. Sellers, vice- Scandinavian Airlines System's Douglas DC-7C " Reidar Viking" at Anchorage, a stop on the new S.A.S. route from Scandinavia over the North Pole to Tokyo.
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