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FLIGHT, 8 April 1960 493 AIRLINES. OF THE WORLD Arctic Wings Ltd—see Transair Ltd (Canada). Argonaut Airways Inc operates non-scheduledservices from Florida using aircraft reported to be leased from Riddle.Head Office: Box 627, Miami 48, Florida. Executive: A. G. Thomson, Jr, president.Fleet: three C-46. Ariana Afghan Airlines Co Ltd was foundedin 1955 with the assistance of Indamer Co Ltd; the Afghanistan Government had a 51 per centinterest. In 1957 the Indamer share was taken over by Pan American Airways, and domesticscheduled services began with four DC-3s. PanAm is now responsible for technical andoperational matters and for training Afghan staff. The "Marco Polo" route from Kabul toFrankfurt via Kandahar, Teheran, Damascus, Beirut, Ankara and Prague is operated by DC-4. Other services link Kabul to Amritsar and Delhi, to Karachi, to Bahrain and Jeddah andto points in Afghanistan. Head Office: Box 76, Kabul, Afghanistan.Executives: F. M. Ahmedzai, president; L. C. Lindsey, executive vice-president; B. V. Fer-dinandsen, comptroller; M. Aslam, secretary. Fleet: one DC-4, four DC-3. Arkia, Israel Inland Airlines Ltd was foundedin 1950 by El Al and Kanfot, a company owned by the General Federation of Labour.At present the only scheduled operations are from Tel Aviv to Haifa and Mahanaim, and from Tel Aviv to Beersheba and Elath. Arkiaalso operates two Alouettes owned by the Alisa company on charter services; the Alisa concernis a partnership between the Israel Defence Ministry and Mr Y. Shidlovsky of Paris.Head Office: Tel Aviv, Israel. Executives: J. Hozman, managing director; L.Bigon, technical manager. Fleet: three Nord 2501 Noratlas, four DC-3, two Beech 18, two Alouette. Asiatic Aeronautical Co Ltd—see Civil Air Transport. Associacion Interamericano de Aviacion—AID A was formed in 1947 to operate charter services in Colombia.Head Office: Bogota, Colombia. Fleet: one Canso. Associated Air Transport Inc, a US non-scheduled carrier, operates charter services from Miami.Head Office: PO Box 932, Miami 48, Florida. Fleet: five C-46. Associated Airlines (Pry) Ltd operate charterair services in Australia on behalf of the parent companies, the Broken Hill Co and Con-solidated Zinc. Head Office: 500 Bourke St, Melbourne, Vic-toria, Australia. Fleet: one Heron, one L.I2.Associated Helicopters Ltd was a subsidiary of Associated Airways (see Pacific West) but nowoperates independently. Vork is carried out on behalf of various oil companies.Head Office: Edmonton, Alberta. Executives: T. P. Fox, president; S. R.Kaufman, manager. Fleet: 14 Bell 47. Austin Airways Ltd was founded in 1934 andclaims to be the oldest continuously operated airline in Canada. Austin operates extensivenon-scheduled services in northern Ontario and western Quebec, and also undertakesaerial photography, air survey and forest fire patrol work.Head Office: Toronto Island Airport, Toronto, Ontario.Executives: J. A. M. Austin, president and general manager; J. C. Bell, chief pilot; F. W.Russell, chief engineer. Employees: 60.Fleet: one DC-3, one Canso, one Fairchild Husky, one Otter, six Beaver, five Norseman,three Anson, three Cessna 180. Austral Cotnpania Argentina de TransportesAereos SA, Cel, operates regular internal services in Argentina with C-46s from BuenosAires down the Patagonian coast to Rio Grande. A freight service between BuenosAires and Miami is also operated. Head Office: Buenos Aires, Argentina.Executive: Jorge Rojas, general manager. Fleet: five C-46. Austria Flugdienst. Little is known of thisAustrian charter operator, except that one of its DC-3s crashed at Palma, Majorca, on May Austrian Airlines—Osterreichische Luftver-kehrs Aktiengesellschaft—was founded in September 1957 by agreement between AirAustria and Austrian Airways, neither of which had begun operations. Operations started inApril 1958 using Viscount 779s chartered from Fred Olsen Airtransport; these are nowbeing replaced by new Viscounts bought from Vickers. Services now extend from Vienna toFrankfurt, Stuttgart, Innsbruck, Zurich, Paris, London, Manchester, Rome, Belgrade, Athens,Sofia, Cairo, Warsaw and Moscow. Head Office: Vienna 111/40, Austria.Executives: Dipl. Ing. Ferdinand Brandner, Felix Schalk.Employees: 300. Fleet: six Viscount 837. ".-.... <t:i;"4:; Autair Helicopter Services Ltd operatescharter services in Eastern Canada, specializ- ing in powerline patrol and survey work.Head Office: Montreal, Canada. Fleet: eight Bell 47, 12 Bell 47G-2. Avalon Air Transport Inc operates intra-stateservices within California between Catalina Island, Long Beach and Los Angeles.Head Office: Long Beach, California, USA. Executives: Wilton R. Probert, president; W. B.von Kleinsmid, secretary /treasurer. Fleet: seven Goose, one DC-3, one Vought-Sikorsky VS-44A. Aviacon y Comercio SA—Aviaco or AYC was founded as a private non-scheduled operator in1948; scheduled operation began in 1950. Routes radiate from Madrid to points on theSpanish mainland and from Madrid and Barcelona to the Balearic Isles. In NorthAfrica, Tangier, Tetuan, Casablanca, Oran and Algiers are served; there are also servicesfrom Spain and Casablanca to Las Palmas and Tenerife. Aviaco also operates Marseilles -Majorca and Marseilles - Palma (Majorca) services. The company has also operated ser-vices from Spain to Brussels and Amsterdam and to West Africa and Spanish Guinea, butthese have been discontinued. Services to Brussels from Barcelona and Palma have sincebeen resumed, and ex-Sabena Metropolitans were acquired last year.Head Office: Aduana 33, Madrid, Spain. Executives: Jose Pazo Montes, president;Emilio Gil Cacho, managing director; Antonio Erce Diez, operations manager; FranciscoMacLennan Arregui, commercial manager; Luis Valenzuela Cervera, chief engineer; JoseInchausti Balseiro, administrative director. Employees: 702. Fleet: three Convair 440, five Heron II, threeBristol 170, five Languedoc. Aviameer Airlines Ltd was founded in October1957 and operates inclusive tour and general charter flights within Europe and the MiddleEast. Head Office: 26 Osystraat, Antwerp, Belgium. Executive: A. Meerbergen, managing director.Employees: 15. Flee:: two Viking. BC Air Lines Ltd operates regular servicesaround the west coast of Vancouver Island, and also offers irregular, charter and technicalservices in British Columbia, as well as inter- national charter flights. Head Office: Vancouver Airport, BC, Canada.Executives: Dr F. G. Winspear, president; B. W. Pitfield, vice-president; G. L. Best,general manager; R. Whitaker, comptroller; W. F. Waddington, operations manager; T. A.Walsh, sales manager; I. G. Kyle, superintend- ent of maintenance. Fleet: two Mallard, nine Beaver, four Norse-man, four Cessna 180, seven Cessna 170. BGA—see British Guiana Airways. BNP Airways Ltd is a small charter operatorbased in Vancouver. Major overhauls are carried out on behalf of other operators.Head Office: Vancouver, BC, Canada. Executives: T. Ingledow, president; G. Wil-liamson, general manager. Fleet: three Goose. Bahamas Airways Ltd was founded in 1936 totake over the operation of inter-island charter services begun in 1933. In 1943, Pan AmericanAirways acquired a 45 per cent interest in the company but in 1949 Bahamas Airways wastaken over by BSAA and later became a wholly owned BOAC subsidiary. Early in 1959 BOACsold 80 per cent of its shareholding to Skyways Bahamas Holding Co Ltd. In March 1956Bahamas Airways inaugurated a service to Grand Turk, Turks Island via San Salvador,Mayaguana and Great Inagua. The airline operates frequent inter-island services amongthe Bahamas and from Nassau and West End to Fort Lauderdale and West Palm Beach.There are three Hermes services a day between Nassau and Miami.,Head Office: Nassau, Bahamas, BWI. Executives: David Brown, chairman; J. EricRylands, managing director; Capt Peter Fair, general manager; K. Ashworth, secretary/accountant; A. Wagstaff, sales manager. Fleet: two Hermes 4, three DC-3, threeWidgeon, two Goose. Balair AG is a Swiss charter operator thatcommenced operations in 1957. Swissair holds a 40 per cent financial interest, the SwissGovernment 25 per cent and private interests 35 per cent. Charter flights within Europe andalso to Buenos Aires, Montevideo, New York,. Bombay and Johannesburg have been made.Head Office: Basle, Switzerland. Executives: Dr F. E. Iselin, president; HerrOtto Gersbach, Capt Herzog, joint managing directors; Capt P. Wagner, chief pilot.Employees: 150. Fleet: two DC-4, two Viking, 12 others. Belgian International Air Services is a recently-formed charter operator that commenced opera- tions last year.Head Office: Brussels, Belgium. Fleet: one DC-4. Blatz Airlines Inc is a US non-scheduledcarrier. Fleet: one DC-3. The first of CSA's fleet of six 11-18 turboprops, with an Ariana Afghan DC-4 in the background
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