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494 FLIGHT, 8 April i960 One of Air Algerie's Nord 2502 Noratlas freighters AIRLINES. OF THE WORLD Bonanza Airlines Inc was established in 1945and began service between Las Vegas and Reno on August 5, 1946. With 13 years ofexperience the company is now operating about 2,090 miles of routes in Nevada, Arizona, Utahand California. F.27A "Silver Dart" services began on March 29, 1959, and are nowoperated to 13 cities. Head Office: Box 391, Las Vegas, Nevada,USA. Executives: Edmund Converse, president andchairman; G. Robert Henry, executive vice- president; M. W. Reynolds, vice-presidentoperations; W. J. Mitchell, vice-president traf- fic and sales; R. J. Sherer, treasurer; RalstonO. Hawkins, general counsel and secretary. Employees: 480. Fleet: six Fairchild F.27A (plus four on option),ten DC-3. Borneo Airways Ltd was formed in March1958 and has as its main shareholders, the Governments of the Colony of Sarawak, theState of Brunei and the Colony of North Borneo. BOAC and Malayan Airways Limitedalso have an interest. Internal services are operated throughout the three British terri-tories in Borneo using D.H.89s and Twin Pioneers, using Labuan as a base.Head Office: Labuan, North Borneo. Executives: D. E. M. Fiennes, chairman; CaptT. M. Robertson, managing pilot; J. McLear, commercial superintendent; A. A. Cooper,secretary. Employees: 300.Fleet: three Twin Pioneer, two D.H.89. Braathens—South-American and Far East Air-transport A/S (SAFE) was formed in 1946 by the Norwegian Braathen shipping concern forthe operation of long-distance charter services. Following non-scheduled flights to the FarEast the company operated regular scheduled services between Norway and Hong Kong from1949 until March, 1954, when the licence was not renewed by the Norwegian Government.The company now concentrates on scheduled internal services. Braathens also collaborateswith Loftleidir in the operation of its Europe - Iceland - North America services. With theliquidation of Vestland6ke Airways in spring 1958 th4 routes flown by this company weretaken over by Braathens. Head Office: Oslo, Norway.Executives: L. G. Braathen, president; B. G. Braathen, vice-president; E. Froysaa, commer-cial manager; J. Rad, operations manager. Employees: 400. Fleet: two DC-4, two DC-3, two F-27. Onorder: one F-27 (current). Bradley Air Services Ltd operate non-sche-duled services, mostly in Ontario. Head Office: Carp, Ontario.Executives: R. L. Bradley, president; E. Hall, vice-president. Fleet: three Cessna 180, seven Norseman, 11 others. Braniff International Airways Inc. Theoriginal Braniff company was founded in 1928 by Paul and Tom Braniff; and the line's firstaeroplane, a Stinson Detroiter, bore the title Tulsa-Oklahoma City Airline on its fuselage.In 1929 the airline became part of the Univer- sal Aviation Corporation and in 1930 Braniff Airways was organized as an independentcompany. The word International was added to the title in 1948, when services were begunto Havana and Lima. The airline now operates more than 14,000 miles of routes in the UnitedStates and to South America. US domestic routes go from New York as far west as Denver,and from Minneapolis/St Paul down to Texas, Louisiana and Florida. The South Americanroutes are via the west coast to Lime, from where they branch to Sao Paulo and Rio deJaneiro, La Paz, Asuncion and Buenos Aires. Head Office: Exchange Park, Dallas, Texas,USA. Executives: C. E. Beard, president; F. Jones,chairman; J. W. Miller, executive vice-presi- dent: R. V. Carleton, vice-president operations;O. W. Crane, treasurer. Employees: 5,113. Fleet: four Boeing 707-227, six DC-7C, oneDC-6B, nine DC-6, five Convair 440, 25 Con- vair 340, 18 DC-3, two C-46. On order: oneBoeing 707-227, three Boeing 720 (provisional), nine Electra (current). British European Airways Corporation—see page 484. British Guiana Airways (Govt.)—BGA. In1934 A. J. Williams, a US citizen, began charter operations in British Guiana with asingle-engined Ireland flying boat. The busi- ness prospered and in 1939 Mr Williamsfounded British Guiana Airways Ltd to operate regular, subsidized services. By the end of thewar the company had acquired Dakotas and Goose amphibians. In July 1955 the Govern-ment bought out the airline, and its name was changed to British Guiana Airways (Govt.).The company operates scheduled domestic services as well as charter flying both domestic-ally and to neighbouring territories. Head Office: Box 102, Georgetown, BritishGuiana. Executives: Capt J. M. Farquharson, generalmanager; H. E. Wendt, technical manager; J. P. Wilson, chief pilot; S. H. Kennard,engineering superintendent; E. P. Christiani, accountant/secretary; J. de Frietas, trafficsuperintendent. Employees: 180. - -,-.••-«•-Fleet: three DC-3, three Goose. •••--, British Honduras Airways Ltd—BHA boughtthe assets of the Airline Division of British Colonial Airlines on October 24, 1956, andis operating the internal services worked by the earlier company. BHA is a wholly ownedsubsidiary of BWIA. Head Office: Box 186, Belize, British Honduras.Executive; Col T. S. Baker, manager. Fleet: two Cessna X80, two Cessna 170. British Overseas Airways Corporation—see page 485. e British West Indian Airways Ltd—BWIA is awholly owned subsidiary of BOAC. The company was originally organized in 1940 andbegan operations with one Lodestar. In 1947 British South American Airways acquired con-trol of BWIA and this passed to BOAC when it took over BSAA. In 1949 BOAC took overBritish Caribbean Airways and merged its operations with those of BWIA. An extensivenetwork of Caribbean services is now operated from Bermuda as far south as Georgetown,(British Guiana). New York, Miami and Caracas are also served. Viscounts are used on themajor routes. Head Office: 17 Chacon Street, Port of SpainTrinidad, BWI. ' Executives: Sir Errol dos Santos, president;H. O. B. Wooding, chairman; J. H. Rahr, general manager; Capt P. W. Kelshall, assist-ant general manager, technical; Capt B. P. O'Duffy, operations manager; B. F. Pantin,general sales manager; W. Girling, manager traffic and agency stations; M. J. Martinez,secretary. Employees: 1,234.Fleet: five Viscount; five DC-3. Byerly Airlines operates a regular service fromJacksonville, Illinois, to Peoria where it con- nects with Ozark flights to and from ChicagoHead Office: Peoria, 111, USA. Executives: R. M. Byerly, president; W. M.Staker, vice-president; J. J. Geils, secretary- treasurer. Employees: 18. ,.-.-.', i-% "^'... '• ...::.:.Fleet: L.I2, Bonanza. CAAC—see Central African Airways Corp orCivil Aviation Administration of China. CINTA—Compania Nacional de TurismoAereo (Chilean Airlines) was formed in 1951 and started operations as an air taxi serviceusing Bonanzas to transport tourists to Chile's lake region. Scheduled operations were com-menced in 1956 of low-fare services to the USA from Santiago to Miami with DC-4s,and about this time CINTA obtained financial backing from Compania Sudamericana deVapores Chiles, a Chilean shipping line. In 1958 CINTA took over the services of ALA—Sociedad de Transportes Aereos Ltda, which was operating cut-price services from Santiagoto Havana with an L.049 Constellation at first leased and later bought from Cubana. ALAwas a division of Compania Salitrera de Tara- paca y Antofagasta, a large Chilean nitratecompany, and also operated C-46 services to Panama. The CINTA-ALA combine con-tinued to operate L.049 and L.I049 services from Santiago to Havana via Guayaquil andPanama City and domestic DC-4 services from Santiago to Antofagasta, Iquique and Arica,but all these services were suspended last summer and have not been resumed.Head Office: Hotel Carrera, Santiago, Chile. Executives: A. Edwards, president; J. Costabal,general manager; C. Vallejo, secretary general; K. Rosene, technical manager.Fleet: one L.1049, three DC-4, one C-46, two DC-3, two Lockheed 10, two Bonanza. COP A—see Compania Panamena de Aviacion. CSA—see Ceskoslovenske Aerolinie. California Central Airlines was founded in1947 as an intra-state carrier and operated services linking San Diego, the Los Angelesairports, San Francisco and Oakland. It is East-West Airlines' F-27 is named "City of Tamworth"
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