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FLIGHT, 8 April 1960 491 June 1948. Bombay - London flights serveCairo, Beirut, Rome, Geneva, Frankfurt and Paris, and will shortly be extended to NewYork. Bombay - Tokyo flights serve Calcutta, Bangkok and Hong Kong; there is a Bombay -Madras - Singapore - Djakarta service and another to Darwin and Sidney. Bombay andKarachi are linked to Nairobi via Aden, and there is a twice-weekly service to Moscow viaDelhi and Tashkent. Prague is also served via Delhi, Beirut and Zurich. Boeing 707services to London commenced this month and services to New York will begin on May 14.Head Office: Bombay, India. Executives: J. R. D. Tata, chairman; B. R.Patel, vice-chairman and general manager; A. C. Gazdar, technical director; S. K. Kooka,commercial director; N. J. Pavri, financial con- troller; R. Doraiswamy, chief administrativeofficer; A. S. Banavalikar, personnel manager; R. N. Gundil, secretary.Employees: 4,553. ' Fleet: three Boeing 707-437 (current), nineL.1049G (three being converted to freighters), one DC-3 freighter. On order: one Boeing707-437 (1961). Air Inter-Lignes Aeriennes Interieures wasformed in 1954 to operate internal services within metropolitan France. Services werestarted in March 1958 using aircraft chartered from Air France, TAI, UAT and Air Algerie,and also an Alouette chartered from Helicop - Air for Orly - Le Bourget flights. Traffic failedto reach expectations and services were dis- continued in November 1958. A once-weeklyParis - La Baule service was operated between July 6 and September 21 last year, and a twice-weekly Paris - Dinard service between July 4 and August 29. These seasonal services weresubsidized. No decision has yet been taken on Air Inter's1960 operations, but the opening of an internal route network of about 3,465 miles based onParis is envisaged, using Viscount 708s and DC-3s chartered from Air France.Head Office: 12 Rue de Castiglione, Paris, ler. Employees: 4. Air Ivoire was established by TAI in 1956 andoperates local services in French West Africa to connect up with TAI's main services.Head Office: Box 1281, Abidjan, French West Africa. _ • Fleet: three Rapides. Air Jordan of the Holy Land is the successor tothe two scheduled Jordanian airlines, Air Jor- dan Co Ltd and Arab Airways (Jerusalem) Ltd.On December 1, 1958, the latter two airlines merged to form the new company thoughmanagement was retained by Transocean Air Lines. The Convair and DC-4 equipmentwhich had been introduced in 1958 by Air Jordan Co Ltd was kept by the new com-pany and the routes of both were consolidated into one service. Routes now operated fromAmman and Jerusalem include Beirut, Cairo, Damascus, Kuwait, Jeddah, Dhahran, Aqaba,Nicosia and Rome. Head Office: Box 274, Amman, Jordan.Executives: A. Z. Nuseibeh, chairman; Abdul Muti El Qutob, general manager; W. R. Rivers,executive director; Walter B. McCarthy, director of traffic and sales; R. V. Williams,director of maintenance; H. C. Gilmore, chief pilot. Fleet: two Convair 240, two DC-4, two DC-3,one C-46, one D.H.89. Air Laos Transports Aeriens was formed in1952 by Air France, Aigle Azur and local interests. Air France subscribed 30 per centof the original stock and Aigle Azur 20 per cent. Services are operated from Vientiane to anumber of places in Laos and Cambodia and to Saigon, Bangkok and Hong Kong.Head Office: Box 87, Vientiane, Indo-China. Fleet: nine DC-3, one Boeing 307, two Otter,one Beaver. Air Liban was founded in 1945 as CompagnieGenerate de Transport and took its present title in 1951. The company operates servicesbetween Beirut, Ankara and Paris, Beirut and Khartoum, Kano, Lagos, Accra and Abidjan,and Beirut - Tripoli. Regional services link Beirut to Cairo, Aleppo, Nicosia, Jerusalem,Baghdad, Kuwait, Dhahran, Doha, Jeddah. Air Liban is also to operate services betweenBeirut, Casablanca, Dakar, Freetown and Monrovia. Air Liban's services to West Africacater for the many Lebanese who have emi- grated there over the years. Head Office: Immeuble Esseily, Place RiadSolh, Beirut, Lebanon. Executives: Antoine Sehnaoui, president;Henry Naccache, director-general; Jean Pey- rondet, commercial director.Employees: 501. Fleet: two DC-6C, one DC-6, one DC-4, three DC-3. Three Caravelles are reportedly on order. Air Madagascar was established in 1947 andoperates a network of services within Mada- gascar. The company is a subsidiary of TAI.Head Office: 8 Rue General Roques, Tanana- rive, Madagascar.Executives: M. Vernier, director general; M. Garros, asst. director; M. Meyer, chief pilot;M. Lossignol, chief of technical services. Employees: 137.Fleet: three DC-3, six D.H.89, one Cessna 170, one Broussard. Air Ouest was formed in 1955 and operated aregular service between Nantes, La Baule, Belle He and Quiberon, using a fleet of threeD.H.89 Rapides. Operations have now ceased and the three Rapides have been sold. Air Vietnam was founded in 1951 to take overdomestic and regional services previously oper- ated by Air France. The Vietnamese Govern-ment holds 50 per cent of the stock and Air France holds 33 per cent. Air Vietnam fliesdomestic services and to Laos, Cambodia, Hong Kong and Bangkok.Head Office: Box 217, Saigon, Indo-China. Executives: N. Van Khai, president; M.Bruyant, vice-president. Fleet: seven DC-3, one Boeing 307, one DC-4. Airlines of New South Wales Pry Ltd wasuntil December 18, 1959, known as Butler Air Transport Pty Ltd, which was founded in 1934to operate a Charleville - Cottamundra service connecting with the Imperial Airways/QantasEngland - Australia route. The airline was registered as a public company in 1952, andearly in 1958 control of it and of its subsidiary, Queensland Airlines, passed to Ansett Trans-port Industries Ltd. The Flying Boat Division of Ansett-ANA has now been integrated withAirlines of New South Wales, who will operate Sandringhams between Sydney and LordHowe Island. Airlines of New South Wales operates about 9,000 miles of route fromSydney to towns in NSW and Queensland. An extension of the Sydney - Broken Hill route toAlice Springs NT is projected. Sandringhams have recently started one-day tourist trips to Lake Eucumbene, south west of Canberra, and the dam on this lakewhich is part of the Snowy Mountains Author- ity hydro-electric power scheme. Tourists aretaken on a launch trip to the dam itself, and then go on an 80-mile coach tour.Head Office: Sydney, NSW, Australia. Executives: R. M. Ansett, chairman/managingdirector; Capt S. C. Middlemiss, general manager; K. N. Hillyar, secretary; Capt C. C.Henry, operations manager; K. H. Goddard, technical manager; D. G. Todman, salesmanager; J. Buchanan, traffic superintendent. Employees: 160. Fleet: three F.27A Friendship, one Convair440, four Standard DC-3, three "Viewmaster" DC-3, two Sandringham. Airlines of South Australia Pry Ltd is the name recently adopted by Guinea Airways Ltd which operates services radiating from Adelaide to points in South Australia, New South Wales and Victoria. Originally formed in 1927 to provide air transport to the goldfields just dis- covered in New Guinea, Guinea Airways started operations with a de Havilland D.H.37 freighter and continued with Junkers W.34 and G.31 freighters, the latter featuring a dorsal hatchway lift lOin long x 5ft wide to accommodate heavy mining equipment. In one single month of 1931 more freight was carried in New Guinea than the rest of the world's airlines totalled for the entire year, but Guinea's airlift to the goldfields was ended by the war. A route was also operated between Darwin and Adelaide pre-war, but after 1945 the newly-formed State-owned Trans-Australia Airlines drove Guinea Airways off this route and in recent years the company's operations have centred on Adelaide. Last year Guinea Holdings, the holding company for Guinea Airways and Guinea In- vestments Ltd was taken over by Ansett Trans- port Industries Ltd and the airline is no longer managed by TAA. Head Office: Adelaide Airport, Adelaide, South Australia. Executives: P. D. W. Stedman, general manager; C. A. Window, secretary; Capt N. S. D. Buckley, chief pilot. Fleet: one Convair 440, five DC-3, one Auster. Airnautic GECA started charter operations in in Europe in 1958. Head Office: 5 Rue Louis le Grand, Paris. Fleet: one Viking, one DC-3, one Airspeed Consul. Airtaco—see Linjeflyg. ."•':/""'"• Airways (India) Ltd is entirely engaged on non-scheduled charter flying. Frequent services are operated to the Andaman Islands. Head Office: 31 Chittaranjan Avenue, Calcutta 12. Executives: K. K. Roy, director; S. G. Rangaswamy, manager. Fleet: three DC-3, one Catalina. Alaska Airlines Inc adopted its present title in 1944, having been founded in 1937 as Star Air Lines Inc to take over Star Air Ser- Wce, which had been doing charter work for several years; the latter had acquired McGee Airways, which was founded in 1932. In 1942 and 1943 Star Air Lines took over Pollack Air Lines, Lavery Airways and Mirow Air Service. Alaska Airlines, which has an extensive Alaskan route system and also serves Seattle and Port- land, still uses the title "Route of the Star- liners." Head Office: 2320 Sixth Av, Seattle, Washing- ton, USA. Executives: Charles F. Willis Jr, president; R. W. Gilbert, senior vice-president; R. Herm- stein, treasurer. Employees: 391. Fleet: two DC-4, three DC-6A, three C-46, six Norseman, four Cessna 180, on: Beech, one Apache. Alaska Coastal Airlines operates a network ofdomestic services based on Juneau. The air- line was formed in 1939 as a partnership by A Bonanza F-27A "Silver Dart" over the Hoover Dam
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