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1960
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FLIGHT, 8 April 1960 511 _ AIRLINES OF THE WORLD Head Office: Ottawa, Canada.Executives: R. J. Reynolds, president; V. V. R. Symonds, general manager; J. A. Roberts, tech-nical director; E. L. Bunneil, operations manager; K. L. Marshall, helicopter divisionmanager; W. U. Hardy, sales manager; W. H. Morton, contracts administrator.Employees: about 260. Fleet: nine Vertol 42/44 (leased), 22 Bell 47. Standard Airways Inc is a US charter carrierthat specializes in flying to Alaska. Head Office: Lindbergh Field, San Diego,California. Fleet: two DC-3. Stewart Air Service is a small US charteroperator. Head Office: Hawthorne, California.Executive: E. A. Stewart, president. Fleet: three DC-3, one Bell 47. Straits Air Freight Express—SAFE, a subsi-diary of Airwork Ltd, is primarily engaged on scheduled freight services linking the Northand South Islands of New Zealand. Their development of the "Cargon" loading systemhas been adopted elsewhere. Head Office: Wellington, New Zealand.Executives: J. Sawers, chairman; D. Hay, secre- tary; R. Hamilton, operations manager.Fleet: three Bristol 170. Sudan Airways is government-owned andbegan operations in 1947; it was formed in 1946 with Airwork's assistance. Domesticroutes extend throughout the Sudan from Wadi Haifa in the north to Juba in the south; andfrom Geneina in the west to Port Sudan in the east. International routes serve Aden, Asmara,Jeddah, Cairo and Entebbe. On June 8, 1959, the airline inaugurated its Blue Nile Viscountservice from Khartoum to London via Cairo, Athens and Rome; this is flown by Airworkcrews. Head Office: Gaon Building, Sirdar Avenue,Khartoum, Sudan. Executives: Sayed Abdel Bagi Mohamed,general manager; Y. Bakheit, traffic manager; M. H. A. Bashendi, traffic superintendent(technical); M. El Amir, sales superintendent; C. E. Blake, chief accountant; D. W. Graham,chief pilot; R. D. Collins, chief engineer; H. Ahmed, operations superintendent.Employees: 549. Fleet: one Viscount 831, seven DC-3, fourDove. Suidwas Lugdiens (Edms) Beperk, untilrecently known as South West Air Transport (Pty) Ltd, has for several years been operatingfeeder services connecting with South African Airways' flights at Windhoek. Operations in-clude five weekly services between Windhoek and Otjiwarongo, Outjo, Tsumeb and Groot-fontein and a six-times-weekly service between Windhoek, Walvis Bay and Swakopmund.Head Office: Windhoek, South West Africa. Executives: P. H. M. Du Plessis, chairman;G. T. van Rooyen, managing director; A. K. L. Finke, chief engineer.Fleet: two Apache, seven Ryan Navion. Surinam Airways—Surinaamse LuchtvaartMaatschappij NV operates internal services in Dutch Guiana from Paramaribo to Aloengo,Albina, Nickeric and several other points. Head Office: PO Box 1029, Paramaribo,Surinam. Executives: N. Zaal, manager. Tasmon's Electra "Aotearoa" toxies in Fleet: one Aero Commander, two PiperApache, several Cessna. Swissair—Swiss Air Transport Co Ltd wasfounded on March 26, 1931, by the amalgama- tion of Ad Astra Aero AG and the Basle AirTraffic Co, known as Balair. Ad Astra was founded in 1919 and began flying-boat serviceslinking Swiss cities, before pioneering inter- national routes. Thus Swissair can claim, withits predecessors, over 40 years continuous operation, although its activities were severelyrestricted during the war. Since 1945 the com- pany has grown rapidly and it now operates anetwork of European routes, and services to North and South America and the Near Eastand Far East. Swissair is to begin DC-8 and Caravelle services in May. The company hasa 40 per cent holding in the "new" Balair, the Swiss air charter company, and also has atechnical and equipment interchange agree- ment with SAS. Head Office: Hirschengraben, Zurich, Switzer-land. Executives: E. E. Schmidheiny, chairman; E.Amstutz, E. Primault, deputy chairmen; Dr W. Berchtold, president; A. Baltensweiler, execu-tive vice-president; E. Groh, vice-president finance and economics; L. L. Ambord, vice-president traffic and sales; R. Fretz, vice-presi- dent operations; I. Lack, vice-presidentengineering and maintenance; C. F. Ducom- mun, vice-president personnel; H. Haas, vice-president and secretary general. Employees: 6,187. Fleet: five DC-7C, seven DC-6B, one DC-6A,11 Convair 440, eight DC-3. On order: three DC-8 (current), seven Convair 600 Coronado(two to be leased to SAS), four Caravelle (leased from SAS; current). Syrian Airways Company was formed in 1946and began operations in 1947. Financial diffi- culties caused the suspension of services in1948, but after receiving Government support operations were resumed in 1951. The com-pany now flies domestic services and also has international routes to the Lebanon, Egypt,Saudi Arabia and Kuwait. Head Office: Damascus, Syria.Executives: Abdul Wahab el Hakim, director general.Fleet: three DC-3, three DC-4. TAA—see Trans-Australia Airlines. TABSO—Bulgarian Civil Air Transportoperates domestic services and routes to Bel- grade, Budapest, Prague, Vienna and Berlin.The airline came into being after the war as the Government's Bulgarske Vazdusne, Sob-stenie and in 1949 it became TABSO, in which Bulgaria and the USSR each held 50 per cent.The USSR withdrew its interest in 1954. Head Office: Sofia, Bulgaria.Fleet: five 11-14, nine Li-2, also An-2, Po-2. TACA de Honduras, now a subsidiary ofSAHSA, began charter operations in 1931 and became part of the TACA System in 1932.Scheduled services were begun in 1944. The TACA System sold its interests in the companyin 1948. The company operates a domestic network of services.Head Office: Tegucigalpa, Honduras. Executives: A. Rodriguez, president; W. A.Buxbaum, treasurer; C. A. Garcia, secretary. Fleet: 10 DC-3. TACA International Airlines SA was foundedin Salvador in 1939 as a subsidiary of the US TACA Corporation. Although TACA oncecontrolled a number of airlines, TACA Inter- national is now the only one still operated bythe Corporation. Routes extend from New Orleans and Mexico City through Belize,Guatemala, San Salvador, Tegucigalpa and Managua to San Josd, in Costa Rica, andPanama. Scheduled freight services are oper- ated between New Orleans and Guatemala andbetween Mexico City, Guatemala and San Salvador. Route mileage is 3,980.Head Office: New Orleans, Louisiana, USA (operating from San Salvador).Executives: R. H. Kreite, president; R. E. Clipson, vice-president operations; J. D. Brock,vice-president traffic; W. B. Daly, treasurer; E. Canas, secretary.Fleet: two DC-4, one Viscount, one C-46. TAE—See Olympic Airways. TAG Airlines Inc, formerly known as TaxiAir Group, began operations in April 1956 of a floatplane service linking downtown Detroitwith downtown Cleveland. The company once operated this service during the summer monthsonly and during the winter the fleet was based on Miami and services operated to Fort Lauder-dale, Boca Raton, Stuart, Key Largo and Marathon. TAG now operates between Cleve-land, Detroit and Meigs Field, Chicago, all the year round. The company is a subsidiary of theMiller Oil Co. Head Office: Detroit City Airport, Michigan,USA. Executives: E. F. Knight, general manager;W. W. Knight, Jr, secretary/treasurer; E. A. Eklund, vice-president operations; W. J.Swann, vice-president sales. Fleet: one Heron, two Dove. TAI—-Compagnie de Transports AeriensInterconrinentaux was formed after World War II as a charter operator, closely associated withthe Messageries Maritimes shipping company, and in 1954 established regular scheduled ser-vices to various French territories abroad. In January 1955 TAI was allotted 60 per cent ofthe traffic between France and North Africa and the eastern part of French West Africa; 50 percent to Djibouti, Madagascar and Reunion; and 10 per cent between France and Morocco.The company has also been made responsible tor the development of French services toIndonesia, Ceylon, Australia and the South Pacific (up to Honolulu) and the US west coast.The Air France services to Australia and New Caledonia were taken over in 1956 and early in1958 a route was opened to New Zealand. Ser- vices link Paris to Noumea, Auckland, Nandi(Fiji) and Bora Bora (French Oceania), from where a connecting service to Papeete (Tahiti)is operated by RAI (Reseau Aerien Interinsu- laire). TAI also operates local services in theNew Hebrides. Other services link Paris to Madagascar, and Paris to Morocco, Mali(French Sudan), the Niger Republic, Volta, Dahomey, Togo and the Ivory Coast.TAI accounts for 1.7 per cent of France's 34 per cent share in Air Union.Head Office: 23 Rue de la Paix, Paris, France. Executives: P. Bernard, chairman of the board;General G. Fayet, vice-chairman of the board; M. J. J. Wilmot-Roussel, general manager; M.Mathieu, general secretary; M. Gaffie, com- mercial manager.Employees: 1,450. Fleet: two DC-7C, four DC-6B, one DC-6,two DC-4, one DC-3. On order: three DC-8. TAROM—Transporturile Aeriene Romine(Roumanian Air Lines) is the Roumanian State airline which in 1954 succeeded the jointSoviet-Roumanian TARS, which was formed in 1946. TAROM has about 8,000 miles ofroutes and operates services within Roumania, and from Bucharest to Budapest, Belgrade,Prague, Berlin, Vienna, Copenhagen, Brussels, Sofia, Athens, Odessa, Kiev and Moscow. Itis reported that TAROM may acquire four Il-18s.Head Office: Baneasa Airport, Bucharest, Roumania.Executives: V. Cosma, general manager; C. Nenoiu, commercial manager; N. Vidvischi,technical manager. Fleet: 11-14, 11-12, Li-2, Antonov AN-2.TCA—see Trans-Canada Air Lines. TEAL—see Tasman Empire Airways Ltd.Tasman Empire Airways Ltd—TEAL was formed in 1940 as a joint British-Australian-New Zealand company for the operation of services linking New Zealand and Australia.Operating Short C-class flying boats, it main- tained during the war the only regular pas-senger service of any kind between the two countries. In 1954 Britain withdrew and TEALis now owned jointly by the New Zealand and Australian Governments. DC-6s replaced flying-boats on the trans-Tasman and Fiji services in 1954, but a Solent
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