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536 FLIGHT, 18 April 1958 WORLD AIRLINE DIRECTORY. Continental Air Lines, Inc., counts itshistory as dating from July 15, 1934, when Varncy Speed Lines began a service betweenEl Paso and Pueblo with Lockheed Vegas. In December that year the Southwest Divisionof Varney Speed Lines became Varney Air Transport and on July 1, 1937, the companybecame Continental Air Lines. Earlier in 1937 the Denver-Pueblo route of Wyoming AirService (Inland Air Lines) was purchased. The company's latest acquisition, in 1954, wasPioneer Air Lines, which began service in 1945. Pioneer's routes measured 2,000 miles andserved 22 cities in Texas and New Mexico. Continental now serves a population of 19million people in the area bounded by Kansas City and Denver in the north and El Paso andHouston in the south. Throughplane agree- ments give access to Seattle, California, andSt. Louis. Head Office: Denver, Colorado, U.S.A.Executives: L. H. Mueller, chairman; R. F. Six, president; C. C. West, jnr., exec, vice-pres.;"O. R. Haueter, vice-president operations; C. H. Calhoun, vice-president, engineering and main-tenance; J. A. Uhl, vice-president/treasurer; S. B. Redmond, secretary.Fleet: three DC-3, six Convair 340, three Con- vair 440, three DC-6B, four DC-7B; leased air-craft, 10 DC-3, one DC-6B, one DC-6. On order: one DC-7B, 15 Viscount 812 (1958),four Boeing 707 (1959). COPA—see Compania Panamena de Avia- cion, S.A. Cordova Airlines, Inc., began operations in 1934 and now operates services in the Anchor- age-Cordova-Seward area and as far north as Fairbanks.Head Office: Anchorage, Alaska. Executives: M. K. Smith, president; D. P.Swanson, vice-president operations. Fleet: two DC-3, three Cessna 170, one Cessna180, two Grumman Widgeon, one C-46. Correio Aereo Nacional is a transportbranch of the Brazilian armed services and it is responsible for the operation of air services toareas of Brazil which would not justify com- mercial airline operation. Operations werebegun in 1931 and by 1954 more than 45,000 miles of routes were in operation. In additionto domestic operations this military airline serves points in Bolivia, French Guiana, Para-guay, Peru and Uruguay. Fleet: approx. 40 DC-3, 20 Beech 18, eightBonanza, two Canso. Cosara—see Soci&e de Transports Aeriens en Extreme Orient. Cruzeiro—see Services Aereos Cruzeiro do Sul, S.A. CS.A.—see Ceskoslovenskd Aerolinie. Cuba Aeropostal, S.A., operates serviceswithin Cuba. Head Office: Havana, Cuba.Executives: G. E. Alfonso, president; Dr. J. M. B. Goas, secretary.Fleet: three C-46. Cabana—see Compania Cubana de Avia- cion, S.A. Currey Air Transport, Ltd., is registered as aU.S. supplemental air carrier and has adver- tised services serving Oakland, Burbank, SanDiego, St. Louis, Chicago, Detroit, Philadel- phia, New York and Boston.Head Office: Oakland, Cal., U.S.A. Executives: A. R. Currey, president; G. D.Thompson, vice-president. Fleet: DC-6B, DC-4. Cyprus Airways, Ltd., was founded in 1947by B.E.A., the Cyprus Government and private interests. The British airline holdings are now23 per cent each by B.E.A. and B.O.A.C. B.E.A. provides Viscounts under a hire agreement forcertain services between Nicosia and Beirut, Nicosia and Athens and Nicosia and Tel Aviv.These form part of the joint operation of the B.E.A./Cyprus Airways London-Athens-Nicosia/Beirut/Lydda route. From January this airline's services were provided by B.E.A. Thefleet of four DC-3s is in the process of disposal. Head Office: Nicosia, Cyprus.Executives: Dr. C. Raeburn, chairman; J. A. Vick, general manager; B. G. Cooper, secre-tary; S. M. Killingbeck, commercial manager; J. G. Williams, chief engineer. "De Kroonduif"—see Nederlands NieuwGuinea Luchtvaartmaatschappij "De Kroon- duif' N.V. Delta Air Lines, Inc., re-entered the airlinebusiness in 1934 after a break of four years following its pioneering of services in 1929between Birmingham and Dallas. In 1953 the company took over Chicago and Southern AirLines (founded in 1934) and for some time the company worked as Delta-C & S Air Lines.Delta has an extensive network stretching from New York, Detroit and Chicago in the northto Houston, New Orleans, Miami, Havana, San Juan and Caracas in the south. Westwardsthe network goes to Kansas City, Dallas and Fort Worth, while throughplane agreementsprovide service to Los Angeles, San Diego and San Francisco. Head Office: Atlanta, Ga., U.S.A.Executives: C. E. Woolman, president/gen, mgr.; R. W. Freeman, chairman of the board;L. C. Parker, vice-pres. traffic and sales; C. H. Dolson, vice-president operations; T. G. Cole,vice-president finance. Fleet: 17 DC-7, four DC-7B, 20 Convair 340,seven DC-6, four Constellation, eight Convair 440, five C-46, 15 DC-3. On order: eightDC-8 (1959/60), 10 Convair 880 (1959/60). D.E.T.A.—see Divisao de Exploracao desTransportes Aereos. Det Danske Luftfartselskab A/S—No longeran operating company, D.D.L. began services in 1920, flying from Copenhagen to Berlin.Prior to the suspension of operations in 1939 the route network was spread widely overEurope. From 1946 various efforts were made to operate jointly with D.N.L. (Norway) andA.B.A. (Sweden), culminating in 1950, with the creation of S.A.S. in which D.D.L. has a2/7 (28.6 per cent) share. D.D.L. capital is held 52 per cent by the Government, 15 percent by the Copenhagen municipality, and 23 per cent by private interests. Deutsche Flugdienst G.H.B.H.—D.F.G. isone of the leading German non-scheduled carriers. At one time D.F.G. had a manage-ment contract with Airwork, Ltd. Head Office: Frankfurt, W. Germany.Executives: E. von Brauchitsch, managing director.Fleet: five Vikings. Deutsche Lufthansa. This is a new com-pany, not to be confused with the West German airline, which was set up in 1955 under anagreement between the East German Demo- cratic Republic and the U.S.S.R. The com-pany receives technical assistance from the U.S.S.R. In addition to internal services inter-national services are operated from Berlin to Bucharest, Belgrade, Moscow, Prague, Sofia,Warsaw and Wilno. Head Office: Berlin, German DemocraticRepublic. Fleet: About 50 11-12, AN-2 and 11-14. Deutsche Lufthansa, A.G., describes itself as"a new airline with an old_ tradition." This is apt, as although the new airline began internaloperations on April 1, 1955, services to London on May 16 and to New York onJune 8 that year, the original D.L.H. was founded in January 1926 and its winged crestoriginated with Deutsche Luftreederei m 1919. The new Lufthansa operates a small internalnetwork, European services to London, Paris, Madrid and Lisbon, North Atlantic services toNew York, Montreal and Chicago, South Atlantic services to Brazil and Argentina, andMiddle East services to Lebanon, Syria, Iraq and Persia. Head Office: Cologne, Germany.Executives: Dr. K. Weigelt, chairman; H. M. Bongers, commercial director; Dipl. Ing. G.Holtje, technical director. Fleet: nine L.1049G, four L.1649A, four Con-vair 340, five Convair 440, three DC-3, two Safir, two Beech Bonanza. On order: nineViscount V.814 (1958/59), four Boeing 707 (1960/61). D.F.G.—see Deutsche Flugdienst G.M.B.H. Divisao de Exploracao des TransportesAereos—D.E.T.A. was organized in 1936 by the Colonial Government of Mosambique asa division of the Department of Railways, Harbours and Airways. Domestic services areoperated and there are routes to Durban, Johannesburg and Salisbury.Head Office: Lourenco Marques, Mozambique. Executives: A. P. Pereira Leite, directorgeneral; A. H. Pinho da Cunha, manager; M. A. Cardo?4 Barata, acting manager.Fleet: three DC-3, three Lodestar, six Dove, two Ju 52/3m, four D.H.89, one D.H.90, twoD.H.87. Divisao dos Transportes Aereos—DTA wasfounded in 1938 as a division of the Ports, Railways and Transport Administration inPortuguese West Africa. Operations began in 1938 and at present DTA operates a networkof domestic services and also a route between Luanda and Leopoldville. During 1951 theLeopoldville route was extended to Lourenco Marques but was abandoned as a result of poorload factors. Head Office: Luanda, Angola.Executives: Eng. P. Jeite, president; J. de S. Medina, managing director. Fleet: six DC-3, four Beech 18, three D.H.89. East African Airways Corporation came intobeing in 1946; it is responsible for the develop- ment of air transport in the three territories ofKenya, Uganda and Tanganyika and each Territory is represented on the board, as isB.O.A.C. The corporation is successor to the pre-war Wilson Airways. E.A.A.C. operates anetwork of services in the three Territories and to South Africa. In 1957 three Argonauts werebought from B.O.A.C. to operate between Lon- don and Nairobi.Head Office: Nairobi, Kenya. Executives: Col. M. C. P. Mostert, generalmanager; A. V. Gill, asst, gen. mgr./secretary; Capt. E. E. Morris, operations manager; A. E.Robinson, engineering manager; P. A. Travers, sales manager; S. G. Choppin, chief accountant.Fleet: nine DC-3s, four D.H.89, four Argonaut. Eastern Air Lines, Inc.. is one of the largestU.S. carriers and its history goes back to 1927 when Pitcairn Aviation successfully bid for amail contract between New York and Atlanta. The carrier's name became Eastern Air Trans-port in 1930, following North American Avia- tion's acquisition of Pitcairn in the previousyear. New York Airways and Ludington Air Lines were acquired in 1931 and 1933 respec-tively. North American sold its holdings in 1938. E.A.L. now has an extensive route systemthroughout the Eastern States serving Boston, Detroit and Chicago at the northern extremi-ties; St. Louis, Memphis and San Antonio in the west; and Mexico City and Puerto Ricoat the southwest and southeast corners of the network. Throughplane service with Braniffreaches to Rio de Janeiro and Buenos Aires via the west coast of South America. Otherthroughplane services extend to Minneapolis/ St. Paul, Kansas City and Denver. Eastern,after a long fight, acquired Colonial Airlines in June 1956 thus gaining routes to Ottawa, Mon-treal and Bermuda. In 1957 Eastern ousted American Airlines from their position as theworld's largest airline in terms of passengers carried. Head Office: New York, U.S.A.Executives: E. V. Rickenbacker, chairman/ general manager; T. F. Armstrong, president;P. H. Brattain, first vice-president; T. E. Creighton, treasurer; F. L. Farley, secretary.Fleet: 50 DC-7B, 20 Convair 440, 18 L.749, 28 L-1049, 10 L-I049G, 58 Martin 4-0-4, oneDC-4. On order: 40 Electra, 20 DC-8 (1959-60), East-West Airlines, Ltd., founded in 1947to provide feeder services between inland dis- tricts and Brisbane and Sydney. Servicesbetween Tamworth and Sydney were opened in that year and to Brisbane in 1948. The air-line now serves eight inland points on this route and also operates services from Sydney toCowra, Temora and West Wyalong. Head Office: Tamworth, N.S.W., Australia.Executives: D. M. Shand, chairman; Capt, A. J. Smith, general manager; R. O. Cooksey,administration manager; J. G. Riley, operations manager. Fleet: three DC-3, two Lockheed 18. On order:one DC-3. El Al Israel Airlines, Ltd., was incorporatedin November 1948 and began services to European cities, including London, in 1949.
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