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rFLIGHT, 13 April 1961 481 The World's Airlines A COMPREHENSIVE DIRECTORY TO OVER 500 OPERATORS Aaxico Airlines Inc took its present name onDecember 31, 1956, having previously worked as the American Air Export & Import Co.Aaxico was an all-cargo carrier and used to fly scheduled services between New York,Atlanta, Birmingham and New Orleans, but regular services were suspended in the summerof 1959 following the denial of an operating certificate by the CAB in the Irregular AirCarrier Case. Aaxico is not at present oper- ating, but has leased a number of C-46s toCapitol Airways Inc, a US non-scheduled carrier. Head Office: Miami, Florida, USA.Executives: Howard J. Korth, president; E. P. Odenwalder, secretary/treasurer; J. G.Helvey, vice-president and general manager; Joe A. Young, vice-president operations andmaintenance; Oliver F. Stern, vice-president cargo sales (New York).Fleet: 33 C-46. AB Lapplandsflyg is the largest bush operatorin Sweden, and undertakes a variety of charter services.Head Office: Porjus, Sweden. Fleet: one Junkers W.34, two Norseman, two Seabee, two Bell 47G-2, one Agusta-Bell 47J. AV1SPA—see Aerovias Panama SA. AYC—see Aviacion y Comercio. Acoriana—see Sociedade Agoriana de Trans-portes Aereos Ltda. Adastra Airways (Pty) Ltd operates air surveyand photographic services in Australia. Head Office: 39-45 Vickers Av, Mascot,Sydney, NSW. Executives: H. T. Hammond, general man-ager; L. B. Pares, asst. general manager; T. J. Gurr, sales manager.Employees: 130. Fleet: three Anson, three L.14, two DC-3, onePBY Catalina. Aden Airways Ltd, a wholly-owned subsidiaryof BOAC, operates international routes ranging to Cairo in the north, Bahrein in theeast, Nairobi in the south, and Khartoum in the west. Additionally, they operate regionalservices to Somalia and a network of domestic services within the protectorate of Aden,including Caravan Class services. The com- pany was incorporated on March 1, 1959, andbecame autonomous under its own board of directors on October 1 of the same year.Head Office: Khormaksar, Aden. Executives: H. W. C. Alger, general manager;D- F. Classey, secretary and commercial manager; Capt W. Burman, chief pilot andoperations supt; G. G. Farnsworth, chief engineer; G. Morello, chief accountant; H. L.S'kka, commercial planning supt; A. G. Eager, superintendent stations and traffic; F. A.Goodwin, staff and administration supt. Employees: 475. Fleet: three Argonaut, seven DC-3. On order:three Avro 748 Series 2 (1962). Aer Lingus began operations in 1936 with aD.H.84, which was used on the Dublin-Bristol route. The company now operates a fleet ofViscounts, Friendships and DC-3s on routes linking Ireland with Britain, Holland, Belgium,France, Spain, Germany,- Switzerland, Italy, Portugal and Denmark. BEA holds almostfive per cent of the shares of Aer Lingus, Aer Rianta holding the remainder. BEA co-oper-ates with the company on certain routes between the United Kingdom and Ireland.Head Office: O'Connell Street, Dublin, Re- public of Ireland. Executives: J. F. Dempsey. general manager;Capt J. C. Kelly-Rogers, deputy general manager; James Gorman, assistant generalmanager; M. J. Dargan, assistant general manager (commercial); P. J. Brennan, secre-tary; J. Moran, financial controller; Capt W. J. Scott, assistant general manager (tech-nical); Capt P. McCormack. chief engineer; J. Beard, telecommunications manager; CaptS. Williamson, operations manager and chief pilot. Employees: 2,244.Fleet: seven Viscount 808, seven Friendship, five DC-3. "Verlinte Eireann—Irish International Airlines—a sister company of Aer Lingus, was incor- porated in 1947 to operate a transatlantic airservice between Ireland and the United States. The original plans were shelved but the projectwas re-activated in April 1958 when the com- pany opened a transatlantic service fromDublin via Shannon to New York. The service was later extended to Boston. At present allthe shares are held by Aer Rianta and the ser- vices are closely integrated with Aer Lingus.Aerlinte operates three Boeing 720-048 jet services a week from Dublin to New York viaShannon and Boston. Head Office: O'Connell Street, Dublin, Re-public of Ireland. Executives: J. F. Dempsey, general manager;Capt J. C. Kelly-Rogers, deputy general man- ager; James Gorman, assistant general man-ager; M. J. Dargan, assistant general manager (commercial); Capt W. J. Scott, assistantgeneral manager (technical); J. Moran, finan- cial controller; James O. Leet, vice-president.North America; P. J. Brennan, secretary. Employees: 287 (Aer Lingus staff act also onbehalf of Aerlinte Eireann). Fleet: three Boeing 720-048. Aero Chaco—Lineas Aereas Chaquenas Soc.de Econ. Mixta operates a network of services radiating from Resistencia to seven othertowns within a distance of 200 miles. Head Office: Santa Maria de Oro 145,Resistencia, Chaco, Argentina. Fleet: two Beaver. Aero Enterprises Inc is an Alaskan non-scheduled carrier, no recent news of which is available. Head Office: Anchorage, Alaska. Fleet: two Curtiss CW-20T, one DC-3. Aero-Nord Sweden AB operates scheduled newspaper and limited passenger serviceswithin Sweden. Ambulance and aerial survey work is also undertaken. No recent news ofthis carrier is available. Head Office: Stockholm, Sweden.Executives: P. O. Holmstrbm, managing director.Fleet: one Aero Commander. Aero O/Y—see Finnair. Aero Taxi SA was formed in 1953 and is one ofthe oldest Peruvian taxi and charter operators. Aero Taxi's fleet is based in the jungle at SanRamon, north-east of Lima, and the company does a great deal of freight carrying to isolatedsettlements in the Peruvian jungle region. A network of seven HF radio stations is alsooperated. Head Office: Lima, Peru.Fleet: two Cessna UC-78, one Cessna 180. Aero Transportes SA—ATS A was establishedin 1943 and began scheduled services in 1944. Services were suspended in the following yearand resumed in January 1947. The company now operates a return service thrice-weeklybetween Monterrey and Matamoros. Head Office: 117A Avenida Juarez, Mexico City, Mexico.Executives: R. O'Farrill, president; H. J. Filsinger, general manager; J. P. Centella,sales manager. Fleet: one DC-4 (leased from CMA). Aero Transport Flugbetriebs GmbH wasformed early in 1958 in association with Lufttransport Unternehmen—LTU to operatecharter flights from Austria. Such flights have been undertaken to Teneriffe, Palma, Nairobiand Assuan, as well as between London and Innsbruck. Aero Transport is reported to bemerging with Austria Flugdienst, the com- bined company taking over Austrian domesticoperations. Head Office: Vienna, Austria.Fleet: two Viking, one Dove. Aeroactividades Venezolanas SA operatescharter and taxi services within Venezuela. Fleet: five Cessna 180, eight Helio H-391Courier. Aeroflot—Grazdanskij Wozdusnyj Flot is theSoviet airline, but it is not truly comparable with the airlines of the West, as in addition tooperating passenger, freight and mail services, it is responsible for all aspects of civil aviation.Among its many activities are agricultural, survey and ambulance flying. Aeroflot isresponsible for about 3,000 civil aircraft, for civil airports and for navigational services.In 1929 the pioneer Soviet airlines were amalgamated to form Dobrolet, which in 1932was reorganized and became Aeroflot. The airline now operates an extensive route net-work within the USSR of about 190,000 miles,
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