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484 FLIGHT, 13 April 1961 WORLD AIRLINES SURVEY . . . and the Government of India 49 per cent. OnAugust 1, 1953, by the provisions of the Air Corporations Act, 1953, AH became aState-owned Corporation with the continuing responsibility of operating, as the nationalflag carrier, all long-haul international air services. The company began operating a weeklyBombay - Cairo - Geneva - London service in June 1948. Bombay-London flights serve Cairo,Beirut, Rome, Geneva, Frankfurt and Paris, and go on to New York. Prague will also beincluded in Bombay - London flights from May 1961 after the discontinuation of the Bombay -Prague service via Delhi, Beirut and Zurich. Bombay - Tokyo flights serve Delhi, Calcutta,Bangkok and Hong Kong, but the Delhi Stop will be withdrawn from these services thismonth. There is a Bombay - Madras - Singapore - Djakarta service, and a similar service toDjakarta continues on to Darwin and Sydney. Bombay and Karachi are linked to Nairobivia Aden and there is a once-weekly service to Moscow via Delhi and Tashkent. There is alsoa service from Bombay to Kuwait via Karachi and Bahrain. "The Flying Sherpa" L.1049Gcargo service between Bombay and London was inaugurated on November 17 last.Head Office: Bombay, India. Executives: J. R. D. Tata, chairman; B. R.Patel, vice-chairman and general manager; S. K. Kooka, commercial director; N. J.Pavri, financial controller; K. K. Unni, chief administrative officer; Capt K. Vishwanath,operations manager; K. G. Appuswamy, engineering manager; A. S. Banavalikar,personnel manager; R. N. Gundil, secretary. Employees: 5,417. Fleet: four Boeing 707-437, seven L.1049G,two L.1049G freighters, one DC-3 freighter. It is planned to buy two more 707-437s. Air Inter—Lignes Aeriennes Interleures wasformed in 1954 to operate internal services within metropolitan France. Services werestarted in March 1958 using aircraft chartered from Air France, TAI, UAT and Air Algerie,and for a time an Alouette chartered from Helicop-Air was used for Orly - Le Bourgetflights. Services were discontinued in Novem- ber 1958 but resumed on a seasonal basisduring July-September 1959 when Paris - La Baule and Paris - Dinard routes were operated.Last year, activities were resumed on June 1 using aircraft chartered from Air France, TAIand Airnautic, and linking Paris to Toulouse, Pau, Lille, Lyons, Nice, Dinard, Quimper,Lorient, Brest, La Baule, Biarritz and Lqurdes. The route network will be expanded this yearto include Perpignan, Nantes, Mulhouse, Clermont, Nimes and Strasbourg. A decisionwill be taken this year on ordering a fleet which could be in service at the beginning of 1963.Head Office: 12 Rue de Castiglione, Paris, ler. Executives: Admiral P. Hebrard, president-director general; P. Marland, secretary- general; J. Arnaud, technical director;J. Francois, commercial director. Employees: 15. Fleet: Viscount 708, DC-6, Viking, DC-3,L.749, L.1049G, Caravelle chartered from Air France, TAI and Airnautic. Air-Ivoire was established by TAI in 1956 andoperated local services in French West Africa to connect up with TAI's main services. This Alitalia have ordered ten Rolls-Royce-powered DCSs carrier ceased operations on September 1, 1960, and has since been dissolved.Head Office: Box 1281, Abidjan, French West Africa.Fleet: three Rapide. Air Jordan of the Holy Land is the successorto the two scheduled Jordanian airlines, Air Jordan Co Ltd and Arab Airways (Jerusalem)Ltd. On December 1, 1958, the latter two airlines merged to form the new companythough management was retained until recently by Transocean Air Lines. The Con-vair and DC-4 equipment which had been introduced in 1958 by Air Jordan Co Ltd waskept by the new company and the routes of both were consolidated into one service.Routes now operated from Amman and Jeru- salem include Beirut, Cairo, Damascus,Baghdad, Kuwait, Jeddah, Dhahran, Aqaba, Nicosia and Rome. Head Office: Box 274, Amman, Jordan.Executives: A. Z. Nuseibeh, chairman; Abdul Muti El Qutob, general manager; W. R.Rivers, executive director; Walter B. McCarthy, director of traffic and sales; R. V.Williams, director of maintenance; H. C. Gilmore, chief pilot. Fleet: two DC-6, one Convair 240, one DC-4,one DC-3. Air Korea is a newly formed carrier which isproposing to start operations with ex-Western Airlines Convair 240s.Head Office: Seoul, South Korea. Fleet: two Convair 240. Air Laos Transports Aeriens was formed in1952 by Air France, Aigle Azur and local interests. Air France subscribed 30 per centof the original stock and Aigle Azur 20 per cent. Services are operated from Vientiane toa number of places in Laos and Cambodia and to Saigon, Bangkok and Hong Kong.Head Office: Box 87, Vientiane, Indo-China. Fleet: one DC-3, three Boeing 307, sevenBeaver. Air Liban was founded in 1945 as CompagnieGen6rale de Transport and took its present title in 1951. The company operates servicesbetween Beirut, Rome and Paris, Beirut and Khartoum, Kano, Lagos, Accra, Abidjan andMonrovia, and Beirut - Monrovia via Tripoli, Casablanca, Dakar and Freetown. Regionalservices link Beirut to Cairo, Aleppo, Nicosia, Jerusalem, Kuwait, Dhahran, Doha andJeddah. Air Liban's services to West Africa cater for the many Lebanese who haveemigrated there over the years. Two Vikings are operated by Area Transport, one of Austria's two independents Head Office: Immeuble Esseily, Place Riad Solh, Beirut, Lebanon.Executives: Antoine Sehnaoui, president; Jean Peyrondet, commercial director.Employees: 576. Fleet: three DC-6C, one Caravelle, one DC-4,three DC-3, On order: two Caravelle. Air Madagascar was established in 1947 andoperates a network of services within Mada- gascar. The company is a subsidiary of TAI.Head Office: 8 Rue General Roques, Tanana- rive, Madagascar.Executives: M. Vernier, director general; M. Garros, asst director; M. Meyer, chief pilot;M. Lossignol, chief of technical services. Employees: 192. Fleet:'fow DC-3, six DH.89, one Cessna 170, one Broussard. Air Mali is to be the flag carrier of the MaliRepublic, which consists of Senegal and the French Sudan. A contract was signed inMoscow between Russia and the Mali Republic on March 20 for the supply of11-18, 11-14 and AN-2 transport aircraft and Mi-4 helicopters to Mali. The British Govern-ment has also presented three DC-3s to Mali. Air Union—a proposed consortium of AirFrance, Lufthansa, Sabena and Alitalia. Air Vietnam was founded in 1951 to take overdomestic and regional services previously operated by Air France. The VietnameseGovernment holds 50 per cent of the stock and Air France holds 33 per cent. Air Vietnamflies domestic services and to Laos, Cambodia, Hong Kong and Bangkok. The Hong Kongservice is a weekly one operated by an Air France Super Constellation.Head Office: Box 217, Saigon, Indo-China. Executives: N. Van Khai, president; M.Bruyant, vice-president. Fleet: seven DC-3, one DC-4. Airlines of New South Wales Pty Ltd was untilDecember 18, 1959, known as Butler Air Transport Pty Ltd, which was founded in 1934to operate a Charleville-Cottamundra service connecting with the Imperial Airways/QantasEngland-Australia route. The airline was registered as a public company in 1952, andearly in 1958 control of it and of its subsidiary, Queensland Airlines, passed to Ansett Trans-port Industries Ltd. Ansett Flying Boat Services Pty Ltd has now been integrated withAirlines of New South Wales, and operates Sandringhams between Sydney and LordHowe Island. Airlines of New South Wales operates about9,000 miles of routes from Sydney to towns in New South Wales and Queensland. Anextension of the Sydney - Broken Hill route to Alice Springs NT was operated until lastSeptember, when the service was transferred to Ansett-ANA, who now operate the servicefrom Melbourne. Airlines of NSW also operate a specially modified DC-3 on aerialsurvey work for the New South Wales Depart- ment of Lands. Head Office: Kingsford Smith Airport,Mascot, NSW, Australia. Executives: R. M. Ansett, chairman; CaptS. C. Middlemiss, general manager; K. N. M. Hillyar, secretary; Capt C. C. Henry, opera-tions manager; K- H. Goddard, technical manager; J. Buchanan, traffic manager; A. E.Fones, sales and advertising manager. Employees: 210. Fleet: three F.27A Friendship, five StandardDC-3, two "Viewmaster" DC-3, one aerial
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