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1958
1958 - 0515.PDF
18 April 1958 531 Air India's Super Con- stellations operate through Cairo on their Bombay to London daily service. co-managers; F. L. Guertin, traffic manager;H. S. Grueningj operations manager. Fleet: nine Goose, one Canso, one BellancaPacemaker, one Lockheed Vega, one Cessna 195, two Piper Pacer, one Hiller 12C, oneCessna 180. Alitalia—Ljneas Aereas Italiane was formedin 1946 as a joint British-Italian venture with B.E.A. holding 30 per cent of the original An Allegheny Airline's Martin 2-0-2. operated under the fleet title "The Pennsylvanian." capital. Additional capital was called up in1955 and B.E.A. sold one-third of its invest- ment to B.O.A.C. In autumn 1957 Alitaliawas merged with L.A.I, (see separate entry), its capital being increased from L.4,500 millionto L.10,000 million. Alitalia operates a Euro- pean network and routes to South, North andEast Africa, Brazil, Argentina, Venezuela, the U.S. and to the Middle East.Head Office: Rome, Italy. Executives: Count Dr. N. Carandini, president;Gen. Urbani, vice-president; Ing B. Velani, general manager; Dr. D. Saracino, asst. generalmanager; R. Cappelletti, commercial director; Ing Rimer, technical director.Fleet: 12 DC-3, four Convair 340, two Con- vair 440, three DC-6, eight DC-6B, six DC-7C,10 Viscount 785 (being delivered). On order: four DC-8. All Nippon Airways was recently establishedthrough the merger of Far Eastern Airlines (a subsidiary of C. Itoh) and Japan Helicopter.The company operates feeder services from Osaka, Tokyo and Fukuoka.Fleet: two Marathon, four Dove, nine DC-3, six Bell 47, one Piper, one Otter, and threeHeron chartered from Japan Air Lines. Allegheny Airlines, Inc., was founded in1937 as All-American Airways. That company pioneered "pick up" air mail services usingStirson Reliants with collection attachments. These services were worked under contractwith the post office and from 1940 under C.A.B. certification. By 1946 nearly 6,000 miles a daywere being flown at 94 per cent regularity. The system extended from Philadelphia in the eastto Cincinnati in the west and Charleston in the south to Jamestown, N.Y., in the north. Therewere four flights a day. The service was with- drawn in 1949 after nearly 15 million miles hadbeen flown. All-American began normal scheduled passenger services in 1949, andbecame Allegheny Airlines in 1953. Perman- ently certificated routes now extend fromDetroit and Buffalo through Pennsylvania, New York, New Jersey, Maryland, Ohio, Delawareand West Virginia. Head Office: Washington, D.C., U.S.A.Executives: L. O. Barnes president; R. M. Love, chairman; E. K. Arnold, vice-president/secretary; D. L. Miller, vice-president traffic and sales; W. J. Short, vice-president/treasurer.Fleet: 12 DC-3 owned, three DC-3 leased, seven Martin 2-0-2. Reported to be about tobuy 11 Martin 2-0-2 from T.W.A. Aloha Airline—see Trans-Pacific Airlines, Ltd. American Airlines, Inc., which carries morepassenger traffic than any other airline, was founded in 1934 as successor to American Air-ways which had come into existence in 1930 to integrate the operations of more than adozen operators. The present-day organiza- tion is a vast undertaking and in 1957 its fleetof 206 aircraft flew five million passenger miles and 114 million freight and mail ton miles.The airline has over 60 aircraft on order at the present time. Its route system stretches fromcoast to coast, into Canada and south to Mexico, while throughplane agreementsstretch the network southeast from Dallas to Miami. Head Office: New York, U.S.A.Executives: C. R. Smith, president; W. J. Hogan, snr. vice-president finance; C. W.Jacob, snr. vice-president/secretary; O. M. Mosier, snr. vice-president operations; C. R.Speers, snr. vice-president sales. Fleet: 58 DC-7, 25 DC-6B, 50 DC-6, 63Convair 240, 10 DC-6A, two DC-4. On order: 35 Electra (1959), 30 Boeing 707 (1959). Ansett—A.N.A. was founded as Ansett Air-ways Pty., Ltd., by R. M. Ansett in 1936 and the airline's first service was opened that yearbetween Melbourne and Hamilton, the route over which Ansett had previously operated roadservices. In 1952 Ansett took over the flying- boat operator Barrier Reef Airways and in 1953acquired some of the routes of another flying- boat operator Trans Oceanic Airways. In 1957Ansett acquired A.N.A. to become Australia's largest privately-owned airline. The mergerbetween these two airlines is still in process. In addition to extensive land-plane services,sea-plane services are still operated by San- dringhams between Sydney and Hobart, fromSydney to Lord Howe Island; and (in summer) from both Sydney and Brisbane to HaymanIsland. Head Office: Melbourne, Victoria, Australia.Executives; R. M. Ansetr, chairman. Fleet: (including that of A.N.A.) 20 DC-3, twoConvair 340, four Convair 440, four DC-6B, two DC-6, eight DC-4, three Bristol 170, twoSandringham, one Bristol Sycamore, one Djinn. A.P.A.—see Aerovias Panama, S.A. Arab Airways (Jerusalem), Ltd., successor toArab Airways Association, was founded in 1953, and B.O.A.C. has a minority interest.Services are operated within Jordan and to Iraq, the Lebanon, Egypt, Saudi Arabia, Kuwait,Aden and Syria. Head Office: Amman, Jordan.Executives: M. A. Bdeir, chairman; Sir Duncan Cumming, S. As'ad, M. Madi, Capt. J. Alger,A. Alauddin, board members; W. Salameh, manager; H. H. Pusey, resident adviser.Fleet: three DC-3. Arctic Wings, Ltd.—see Transair, Ltd. (Canada). Ariana Airlines—see Aryana Airlines. Arkia, Israel Inland Airlines, Ltd. Foundedin 1950 by El Al and Kanfot, a company owned by the General Federation of Labour. Atpresent the only scheduled operations are from Haifa to Tel Aviv/Yafo and from Haifa and Piper Cubs being loaded into an Aerovias Sud Americana Commando.
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