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492 FLIGHT, 8 April I960 AIRLINES. OF THE WORLD Alaska Air Transport, founded in 1935, andMarine Airways, founded in the following year. Alaska Coastal's two Super Catalinas differfrom standard in being modified to CAB Trans- port Category requirements. Two 1,900 h.p.Wright R-2600 Cyclones are fitted instead of Twin Wasps, improving cruising speed andsingle-engine performance. In place of the blister turrets, special Sun Domes are fitted togive passengers a picture window view of the scenery. Head Office: 2 Marine Way, Juneau, Alaska.Executives: S. B. Simmons and O. F. Benecke, co-managers; B. G. Olson, traffic manager;H. F. Gruening, operations manager. Employees: 150. Fleet: two Super Catalina, eight Goose, oneBellanca Pacemaker seaplane, one Cessna 195 seaplane, three Cessna 180 seaplanes, oneHoward DGA-15P. Alisud—Compagnia Aerea Meridionale opera-ted a seasonal service last summer between Salerno and Ischia. It is not known whatequipment was used. Head Office: Calata San Marco 13, Naples,Italy. Alitalia—Linee Aeree Italiane was originallyformed in 1946 as a joint British-Italian ven- ture with BE A holding 30 per cent of theoriginal capital. Additional capital was called up in 1955 and BE A sold one-third of itsinvestment to BOAC. In 1957 Alitalia was merged with LAI, taking over its routes onNovember 1 that year, the capital being in- creased from L.4,500 million to L.10,000million. Alitalia operates a European network, domestic services in Italy and routes to South,North and East Africa, Brazil, Uruguay, Argentine, Venezuela, Canada, the US, theMiddle East, Pakistan and India. Caravelle services are due to start on April 15.Head Office: 92 Viale Maresciallo Pilsudski, Rome, Italy.Executives: Count Dr N. Carandini, president; Lord Douglas of Kirtleside, vice-president;Ing B. Velani, general manager; Dr D. Sara- cino, asst. general manager; Dr R. Cappelletti,commercial manager; Ing G. Rimer, technical manager.Fleet: eight DC-3, four Convair 340, two Con- vair 440, three DC-6, eight DC-6B, fiveDC-7C, nine Viscount 785. On order: six DC-8, four Caravelle (current).All American Airways Inc is a US non- scheduled carrier.Fleet: four C-46. All Nippon Airways Co Ltd was establishedin March 1958 through the merger of Far Eastern Airlines (a subsidiary of C. Itoh) andJapan Helicopter. The company operates feeder services from Osaka, Tokyo andFukuoka to 15 other points in Japan. Head Office: Tokyo, Japan.Fleet: three Convair 440, four Dove, nine DC-3, five Bell 47, one Piper Tri-Pacer, oneJ/5G Autocar, three Heron (leased from Japan Air Lines). On order: three F-27.Allegheny Airlines Inc was established in 1937 as Ail-American Airways. That companypioneered "pick up" air mail services using Stinson Reliants with collection attachments.These services were worked under contract with the post office and from 1940 under CABcertification. By 1946 nearly 6,000 miles a day were being flow? at 94 per cent regularity. Thesystem extended from Philadelphia in the east to Cincinnati in the west and Charleston in thesouth to Jamestown, NY, in the north. There were four flights a day. The service was with-drawn in 1949 after nearly 15 million miles had been flown. Ail-American began normalscheduled passenger services in 1949, and became Allegheny Airlines in 1953. Perman-ently certificated routes now extend from Detroit and Buffalo through Pennsylvania, NewYork, New Jersey, Maryland, Ohio and West Virginia. Eland-engined Convair 540s are nowoperating the Pittsburgh - Philadelphia route. Allegheny purchased 11 ex-National Convair340s last year, and four of these are being re-engined with Elands.Head Office: Washington DC, USA. Executives: L. O. Barnes, president; E. K.Arnold, vice-president/secretary; D. L. Miller, vice-president traffic and sales; W. J. Short,vice-president/treasurer; R. G. Dinning, vice- president. Fleet: 12 DC-3 owned, one DC-3 leased, sevenMartin 2-0-2, two Martin 2-0-2A, five Convair 540. Aloha Airlines Inc (formerly Trans-PacificAirlanes) was founded in June 1946, and began passenger and cargo service in July of-that year.The airline was awarded a five-year temporary certificate as a scheduled operator in 1949,and the certificate was renewed for a second five-year period in 1954. In 1956 the CABawarded the airline a permanent certificate as a scheduled carrier. The airline has a recordof perfect safety since the beginning of its operations. In November 1958 the airlineofficially changed its name from Trans-Pacific Airlines Ltd to Aloha Airlines Inc—the lattername more accurately describing the nature of the airline's inter-island operations inHawaii. Aloha's DC-3 "Vistaliners" are unusual inhaving ports for passengers' camera lenses in their panoramic windows to permit distortion-free photography from the air. Head Office: King St at Bethel, Honolulu,Hawaii. Executives: Ruddy F. Tongg, chairman of theboard; Hung Wo Ching, president; K. F. C. Char, administrative vice-president; R. H.King, senior vice-president traffic and sales; J. M. Brown, vice-president operations;Walton E. Wood, vice-president sales; H. S. Yoshioka, assistant treasurer.Employees: 324. Fleet: three Fairchild F.27, seven DC-3. Onorder: three F.27 (current). American Airlines Inc was founded in 1934as direct successor to American Airways which had come into existence in 1930, and earlierpredecessor companies dating back to 1926. The present-day organization is a vast under- Cathay Pacific's Electros connect Hong Kong with Sydney and Tokyo taking and in 1959 its fleet numbered nearly200 aircraft. Traditionally the largest carrier in the US and in the world, American ledthe world's airlines last year in terms of revenue passenger-miles. America's route networkstretches from coast to coast, into Canada (to Toronto) and south to Mexico (to Mexico City),while throughplane interline agreements stretch the network south-east from Dallas intoMiami. Head Office: 100 Park Avenue, New York 17NY. Executives: C. R. Smith, president; W. J.Hogan, executive vice-president, finance and planning; O. M. Mosier, executive vice-presi-dent, industry planning; G. A. Spater, execu- tive vice-president and general counsel; C. W.Jacob, senior vice-president and secretary; G. M. Sadler, vice-president and general man-ager; R. L. Fitzpatrick, vice-president sales and services; F. J. Mullins, vice-president fieldactivities; Willis Player, vice-president public relations. Employees: 22,000.Fleet: 24 Boeing 707-123, 30 Electra, 24 DC-7, nine DC-7F, 21 DC-6B, one DC-6B leased, tenDC-6A, 49 DC-6, 34 Convair 240. On order: one 707-123, five Electra (current), 25 Boeing720, 25 Convair 600. American Flyers Airline Corp operates charterservices using leased DC-3s from a base at Fort Worth, Texas.Head Office: Fort Worth, Texas. Executive: R. Pigman, president.Fleet: four DC-3. " ~ American International Airways—AIA wasformed in 1958 largely with ex-Slick Airways aircraft and personnel, offering world-wide aircharter services from Brussels. Due to normal expansion and heavy military contracts, thecompany was divided into two operating divi- sions, the Atlantic and European based atMelsbroek Airport, and the Pacific division based on San Francisco. Late in 1959, generaloffices were moved to the USA. Head Office: Sherman Oaks, California, USA.Fleet: seven DC-4. Ansett-ANA was founded as Ansctt AirwaysPty Ltd by R. M. Ansett in 1936 and the air- line's first service was opened that year betweenMelbourne and Hamilton, the route over which Ansett had previously operated road services.In 1952 Ansett took over the flying-boat opera- tor Barrier Reef Airways and in 1953 acquiredsome of the routes of another flying-boat opera- tor, Trans Oceanic Airways. In 1957 Ansettacquired ANA to become Australia's largest privately owned airline, closely comparable insize to TAA. Butler Air Transport (now Air- lines of New South Wales) and its subsidiaryQueensland Airlines, and Guinea Airways (now Airlines of South Australia) were subsequentlyacquired and, like Ansett-ANA itself, form part of Ansett Transport Industries Ltd, agroup of companies engaged in air and road transport and hotel management. Ansett-ANA operates an extensive route net-work in eastern and southern Australia and to Tasmania. Golden Jet services were in-augurated on March 18, 1959, with Electras and Viscount 832s, Ansett-ANA being thefirst non-US airline to operate Electras. Head Office: Airways House, 289 WilliamStreet, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia. Executives: R. M. Ansett, chairman; J. A. WestJr, general manager; J. A. Ellis, finance man- ager and secretary; E. J. Forrester, controller;F. Pascoe, commercial manager; Capt P. J. Gibbes, operations manager.Fleet: two Electra, four Viscount 832, two Vis- count 747, four DC-6B, two DC-6, two DC-4,two F-27, four Convair 440, 13 DC-3, one Bristol 170, two Bristol Sycamore, one Bell47J. On order: one Electra. Apache Airlines Inc operates services withBonanzas between Phoenix, Tucson, Nogales and Fort Huachuca. Head Office: Municipal Airport, Tucson, Ari-zona, USA. Fleet: Bonanza. Arab Airways (Jerusalem) Ltd—see Air Jordan of the Holyland. Arctic-Pacific Inc is a US non-scheduled carrier based in Seattle. No recent news ofthis carrier is available. Head Office: Seattle, Washington.Executives: E. S. Douglass, chairman; H. W. Swanton, president.Fleet: two C-46, one Catalina, two DC-3. ;
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