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552 FLIGHT, 17 April 1959 SAS CarovsJ/e services open in Europe next month WORLD AIRLINE DIRECTORY. Royal Nepal Airline Corp. Ltd. has recentlyopened internal services from Katmandu using DC-3s. Rutas Aereas de Colombia Ltda.—RASrecently took over the air services operated by Sociedad Aeronautica Medellin S.A. A lowfare service linking Miami and Rio de Janeiro is operated in conjunction withAerovias Panama Airways, and regional services are operated in Central America.Head Office: Bogota, Colombia. Fleet: three DC-3, three DC-4. Rutas Aereas Nacionales S.A.—RANSA was founded as a private company in 1948. Thecompany has C.A.B. authorization to carry passengers, mail and cargo between Venezuelaand Miami via Netherlands, West Indies and Jamaica, but at present only cargo servicesare operated. Head Office: Caracas, Venezuela.Executives: C. Chavez, president; E. Pardey, general manager; E. E. Jones, vice-president;R. D. Borges, operations manager. Fleet: 19 C-46, two DC-3, four Cessna 180. Rutas Aereas SAM Ltda.—RAS, see RutasAereas de Colombia. SAA—see South African Airways.S.A. Viacoa Aerea Gaucha—see SAVAG. Sab^na Belgian World Airlines (SocicteAnonyme Beige d'Exploitation de la Naviga- tion Aerienne) was founded in 1923 assuccessor to SNETA. Sabena developed a European network and later routes to and inthe Belgian Congo. The airline now has an extensive route network in Europe, to theMiddle East, to Africa, within the Belgian Congo and to North America. Sabena is the only operator of internationalhelicopter services. Following several years of helicopter mail operation within Belgium, thecompany began passenger services to Holland and France on September 1, 1953, and its S-58snow cover an extensive network radiating from Brussels.Head Office: Brussels, Belgium. Executives: G. Perier, chairman; G. Claeys,managing director; W. Deswarte, president; G. Dieu, deputy president; A. Vernieuwe, seniorvice-pres. operations; Roger Nys, secretary general; F. Pirson, senior vice-pres. technical.Fleet: ten DC-7C, eight DC-6B, three DC-6, two DC-6A, 12 Convair 440, nine DC-4, 28DC-3, eight S-58. On order ; five Boeing 707- 320 (1959), five Cessna 310.Sadia S.A. Transportes Aereos was formed in 1956, operates second-class services from SaoPaulo to Concordia, Porto Alegre and Brasilia, and from Londrina to Florianopolis, RibeiraoI-'reto and Rio de Janeiro. Head Office: 470 Rua Sao Bento, Sao Paulo,Brazil. Fleet: two DC-3. SAFE—see Braathens South American andFar East Airtransport A/S or Straits Air Freight Express. SAGETA—Societe Auxiliaire de Gerance etde Transporte Aeriens was the largest non- scheduled French carrier. The French Govern-ment had been responsible for the Creation of SAGETA in order to provide additional long-haul capacity at the time of the Indo-China conflict. All services were suspended late in1958. Head Office: Paris, France.Executives: P. Marette, manager. Fleet: six Armagnac. SAHSA—see Servicio Aereo de Honduras. Sarnia Airlines recently opened a network oflocal services in Ontario. Head Office: Sarnia, Ontario.Fleet: Dove. SAS—see Scandinavian Airlines System. Saskatchewan Government Airways—SGAwas founded in 1947 by the provincial Govern- ment to take over the M. and C. Aviation Co.and to operate services to North Saskatchewan. SGA also leases aircraft to the Air AmbulanceService and the Forest Fire Control Branch of the Department of Natural Resources.Head Office: Prince Albert, Sask., Canada. Executives: W. A. Houseman, chairman; Hon.A. G. Kusiak, minister; I. Macleod, general manager; F. R. Baudais, operations manager;J. A. Pool, chief engineer. Employees: 75. Fleet: one DC-3, four Norseman, one Otter,five Beaver, one Cessna 140, nine Cessna 180, one Cessna 170, one Piper Super Cub. SATA—see Sociedade Acoriana de Trans- portes Aereos Ltda. Saudi Arabian Airlines was founded in 1946by the Government and is managed by TWA. The airline began operations in 1947 and nowhas about 6,000 miles of routes within Saudi Arabia and to Egypt, the Lebanon, Jordan,Iraq, Aden, Sudan and Syria. Considerable pilgrim traffic is carried.Heid Office: Box 167, Jedda, Saudi Arabia. Executives: R. W. Wilson, technical manager;S. M. Bigler, supt. flight operations. Fleet: 10 Convair 340, four DC-4, 10 DC-3,five Bristol 170. SAVAG—S.A. Viacao Aerea Gaucha. Foundedin 1946 as a private company to operate services in the State of Rio Grande, theoriginal fleet consisted of three Lodestars. Present routes are from Porto Alegre to Livra-mento; Rio Grande to Porto Alegre and Bage; and Sao Paulo to Bage. Cruzeiro do Sul sup-plies SAVACT with crews, provides main- tenance and technical assistance and alsohandles reservations. Head Office: Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil.Executives: E. C. Becker, president; V. V. de Fonesca, vice-president; T. Fruet, operationsmanager. Fleet: six DC-3. Scandinavian Airlines System—SAS is aconsortium of Swedish Air Lines (ABA), Danish Air Lines (DDL) and NorwegianAir Lines (DNL) in the proportions 3, 2 and Viscounts have now taken over SAA's domestic trunk routes 2. SAS originally came into being, in 1946,for the operation of transatlantic services, and both North and South Atlantic routes wereopened in that year. All routes of the three airlines are now operated by SAS with theoriginal airlines acting as holding companies. SAS maintains Scandinavian internal ser-vices, a European network, and routes to South Africa, the Middle and Far East, and to Noithand South America. In 1954 a northern route between Scandinavia and the west coast of theU.S.A. was opened, and a transpolar route to the Far East was opened in 1957.Head Office: Stockholm, Sweden. Executives: A. Rusck, president; S. Ostling,V. J. Rasmussen, T. A. Boye, N. Langhelle, executive vice-presidents.Employees: 12,147. Fleet: 14 DC-7C, 13 DC-6B, 12 DC-6, 20Convair 440. On order: seven DC-8 (1959/ 60), 16 Caravelle, two Convair 880 (1960). Scheduled Skyways System operates servicesbetween Fayetteville and Little Rock. Head Office: Fayetteville, Arkansas, U.S.A.Fleet: Cessna 180 Schweizerische Helicopter A.G.—Heliswiss.This company operates local charter helicopter services. In 1957 Heliswiss took over AirImport. Head Office: Waaghausgasse 3, Bern, Switzer-land. Executives: W. Horning, chairman; H. Aesch-bacher, director. Fleet: five Bell 47. Seaboard and Western Airlines Inc. begannon-scheduled operations in 1951 and on April 10, 1956, began scheduled NorthAtlantic operations between New York and Shannon, London, Glasgow, Brussels, Amster-dam, Hamburg, Cologne, Wiesbaden, Ddssel- dorf, Frankfurt, Nuremburg, Stuttgart,Munich, Paris, Geneva and Zurich in Europe. Head Office: New York, U.S.A.Executives: A. A. Norden, president; A. V. Norden, executive vice-president/treasurer;C. D. Brell, vice-president operations; W. P. Neth, vice-president traffic/secretary.Fleet: three L.1049, three L.1049G, four L.1049H, three DC-4, one C-46. Servicio Aereo de Honduras, S.A.—SAHSA,was founded in 1944 by Honduras private interests and Pan American Airways. Opera-tions were begun in October 1945. The com- pany operates a network of routes in Hondurasand a route between San Pedro and Belize in British Honduras. In 1953 SAHSA purchasedall the stock of TACA de Honduras and in 1957 a controlling share in Aerovias Nacionalesde Honduras was acquired. SAHSA today operates to 33 points within Honduras and toBritish Guiana, El Salvador and Guatemala. Head Office: Tegucigalpa, Honduras.Executives: R. Z. Romero, president/general manager; F. Lardizabal, treasurer; M. AntonioRosa, secretary. Fleet: seven DC-3, one C-46. Servicio Aerio Mediterranea—SAM operatesa domestic network in Northern Argentina. Servicios Aereos Del Paraguay S.A. is inthe process of formation, regional services be- ing planned from Asuncion.Head Office: Asuncion, Paraguay. Executive: Dr. A. Negues, president.Fleet: On order: two C-46, three L.049. Servicos Aereos Cruzeiro do Sul S.A.—see Cruzeiro. Servico de Transportes Aereos—STA isat present operating regular services between the islands of Sao Tome and Principe off thewest coast of Africa. Head Office: Sao Tome Province of SaoTome and Principe, Portuguese West Africa. Executive: V. C. Cortes, chief executive.Fleet: three D.H.89, one Tiger Moth, one Piper Super Cruiser, one Autocar. Sierra Leone Airways—SLA was formed earlyin 1958 to operate internal services in the colony and protectorate.Head Office: Freetowrj. Fleet: three Rapide. Slick Airways Inc. was founded in 1946 andbegan operation as a contract cargo carrier. Scheduled services were authorized in 1949.Financial difficulties led the company to sus- pend all scheduled services in spring 1958.
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