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FLIGHT, 13 April 1961 WORLD AIRLINES SURVEY . . . Compagnie Air Transport are handling andsales agents, shares in which are owned by French National Railways, French airlinesand French shipping interests. CAT handles French bookings for Silver City Airways'"The Silver Arrow" London - Paris rail/air/ rail service, and as the result of a closer link-upwith Silver City will operate three of the latter's freighters on the vehicle ferry servicesfrom Le Touquet and Calais to Lydd, and from Cherbourg to Hum. In return French Rail-ways have agreed to build a two-mile railway spur into Le Touquet Airport.Head Office: 9 Boulevard Malesherbes, Paris, 8e. Fleer: three Bristol Freighter 32. Compagnie Generate de Transports Aeriens AirAlgerie was formed in 1953 by the merging of the original Air Algerie & Cie Air Transport.The controlling interest in CGTA Air Algerie is held by Cie Gle Transatlantique in associa-tion with Cie de Navigation Mixte. Services are operated within Algeria, from Algeria toPalma and Ajaccio, to numerous places in France and to Basle and Geneva. Caravelleservices between Paris and Algiers began on January 12, and Caravelles now serve manyother places. Head Office: Algiers, Algeria.Executives: J. Richard-Deshais, president director general; Col J. Soufflet, assistant tothe president; Col H. Alias, director general. Employees: 1,203. Fleet: four Caravelle, three Nord 2502 Nor-atlas, three L.749A, ten DC-4, three DC-3. On order: two Caravelle. Compagnie Haitienne de Transports Aeriens—COHATA is the successor to Corps d'Aviation de 1'Armee d'Haiti, a military transportorganization founded in 1942, and which began mail carriage in the following year andpassenger services in 1944. Cohata operates a 600-mile domestic route network.Head Office: Bowen Field, Port au Prince, Haiti.Executives: A. Maignan, commandant; Capt P. Nicolas, assistant commandant operations.Fleet: DC-3. Compania Aeronautica Uruguaya SA—Causa,was founded in 1936 and in 1938 opened a route between Montevideo and Buenos Aires,using Junkers Ju52/3m seaplanes. In 1943 Causa opened a second route across Rio de laPlata, from Colonia to Buenos Aires. San- dringham flying-boats are used on both routes.The Montevideo - Buenos Aires route is flown in pool with Aerolineas Argentines, with theUruguayan company flying 10 services a week. The Colonia route is also flown once each wayon weekdays. Head Office: San Jose 1156, Montevideo,Uruguay. Executives: J. A. Bcisso, president; T. L.Borges, managing director; O. M. Rodriquez, secretary.Fleet: three Short Sandringham. Compania Cubana de Aviation SA—Cubana,was founded in 1929 as Compania Nacional Cubana de Aviacion Curtiss SA, for theoperation of a school and charter services. Scheduled services were begun in 1930. PanAmerican obtained 100 per cent control of the company in 1932. PAA's holding was subse-quently much reduced until in 1953 it was only 20 per cent, and it has now withdrawn fromCubana. The company now flies domestic services and also routes to Mexico City,Miami. New York, Bermuda and Madrid. Head Office: Aeropuerto Jose Marti, RanchoBoyeros, Havana, Cuba. Executives: L. M. Menocal, president andgeneral manager; Francisco Garcia, vice- president; Capt C. Alarcon, vice-president andoperations manager; Jose Morera, treasurer; C. L. Alfonzo, traffic and sales manager;Dr Antonio de Goicoechea. secretary. Fleet: four Britannia 318 (one leased toCunard Eagle), three L.1049G, three Viscount 818, three DC-3. Compania de Aviacion "Faucett" SA is one ofthe oldest South American airlines, having been founded in 1928. The company now fliesover 6,368 miles of internal routes and it is one ot the few airlines which operate aircraft of 491 Still used by Faucett areStinson F.I9s built by the company their own manufacture; about 30 Faucett-built Stinsons were produced, and four of these seven-passenger monoplanes are stillused by the airline. The company's honorary president, E. J. Faucett, was the originalfounder. A DC-6B has recently been added to the fleet. Head Office: Jiron Union 926. Lima, Peru.Executives: Eduardo Dibos, president; A. Bentin, managing director; General F. A. P.Armanda Revoredo, director of operations; F. Anselmo. attorney; Jose M. Rodriguez,general maintenance superintendent. Fleet: one DC-6B. four DC-4. five DC-3,six C-47B, four Faucett-Stinson F.I9. Compania Dominicana de Aviacion, C por A—CDA was founded in 1944 by local interests and Pan American Airways. Scheduled domesticoperations began that year. The company operates services to San Juan, Puerto Rico, andto Miami, Florida. Head Office: Ciudad Trujillo. DominicanRepublic. Executives: C. A. McLaughlin, president: E. C.Haeger, general manager. Fleet: two DC-4, four C-46. one DC-3. Compania Ecuatoriana de Aviacion—CEA flieslow-fare services from Miami to Lima using an ex-Connor Airlines DC-6. Stops are madeat Panama. Cali, Quito and Guayaquil. Head Office: Oficina 32, Pasaje Amador B-7.Quito. Ecuador. Executives: M. A. Arteaga. president.Fleet: two C-46. Compania Mexicans de Aviacion SA -CMAwas founded on August 20, 1924, to carry pay- roll gold from Tamnico to the oil fields in theState of Veracruz, thus avoiding the bandits who had been attacking the paymasterstravelling by surface. The original fleet consisted of single-engined Lincoln Standardbiplanes. In 1929 Pan American Airwavs acquired 100 per cent of CMA's stock but thisholding was subsequently considerably reduced and is now 35 per cent. CMA, now the mainMexican airline, operates a network of services within Mexico and to Belize (BritishHonduras), San Antonio and Dallas (Texas). Los Angeles. Chicago and Havana. Scheduledfreight services are also operated within Mexico and to Los Angeles. Comets operatethe "Golden Aztec" services from Mexico City to Los Angeles. Chicago and San Antonio.Head Office: Box 901, Balderas 36, Mexico. DF. Executives: A. Saenz, president; P. A. Chapa,vice-president; C. F. Osuna, vice-president and treasurer; J. E. Vargas, secretary; Max Healey,general manaaer: L. Latapi, operations manager; F. O. Willy, traffic and salesmanager. Employees: 3.100. Fleet: three Comet 4C. eight DC-6, sevenDC-4, 16 DC-3. four Fairchild C-82A. Compania Panamena de Aviacion SA—COPA, an affiliate of Pan American World Airways,was founded in 1944 by PAWA and Panaman- ian interests, with the US line holding 40 percent of the stock. This holding has since been reduced. Scheduled services were begun in1948. The company now operates a system serving various points in Panama and CostaRica. Head Office: Panama City, Panama.Executives: C. Icaza. president; R. Huerte- matte, secretary; F. Icaza, vice-president.Fleet: two DC-3, two C-46. Condor Luftreederei GmbH was founded in1957, and operates inclusive tours and charter services from Hamburg to other parts ofEurope and the Near East, using 50-passenger Metropolitans. The technical and operationsbase is at Fuhlsbiittel Airport, Hamburg. Head Office: Holzbrucke 8, Hamburg. Executives: Dr Rolf Kersten, general man-ager; P. Lauxen, commercial manager; H. Seifert, technical manager.Employees: 60. Fleet: two Convair 440. Connellan Airways Ltd became a limitedcompany in 1951 but operations were begun in August 1939 when E. J. Connellan startedflying a fortnightly 1,184 mile route serving nearly a score of places between Wyndhamand Alice Springs; he used a Percival Gull. Now the company operates extensive localservices based on Alice Springs chiefly within the Northern Territory. Unduplicatcd routemileage is 14,269 and stops are made at 115 points. Head Office: Alice Springs, NT, Australia.Executives: E. J. Connellan, governing direc- tor; 1. M. Leslie, manager: G. A. Taylor,chief pilot; D. Sloan, chief engineer. Employees: 51. Fleet:'Two Beech C-18S, one Beech D-18S.two Beech B-95 Travel Air, three Cessna 180, two Cessna 182. Connor Airlines Inc is a US non-scheduled andsupplemental carrier that is not at present operating, although awarded a two-yearoperating certificate in January 1959. Fleet: three C-46. one DC-3. Continental Air Lines Inc—CAL counts itshistory as dating from July 15, 1934, when Varney Speed Lines began a service betweenEl Paso and Pueblo with Lockheed Vegas. In December of that year the Southwest Divisionof Varney Speed Lines became Varney Air Transport and on May 26, 1937, the companybecame Continental Air Lines. Earlier in 1937 the Denver - Pueblo route of Wyoming AirService (Inland Air Lines) was acquired. The company's latest acquisition, in 1955, wasPioneer Air Lines, which began service in 1945. Pioneer's routes measured 2.000 miles andserved 22 cities in Texas and New Mexico. In November 1955 Continental was awarded theChicago - Los Angeles route via Kansas City and Denver, and this award marked its transi-tion to a large trunk airline. Viscount 812s went into service on this route on May 28.1958, and Boeing 707-124 Golden Jet services started in June 1959. Boeing 707s also serveHouston and El Paso on interchange flights with American Airlines. Head Office: Stapleton Airfield, Denver 7,Colorado, USA. Executives: L. H. Mueller, chairman; R. F.Six. president; H. L. Lawrence, exec vice-pres; O. R. Haueter, vice-president operations;C. H. Calhoun, vice-president engineering and maintenance; Alexander Damm, vice-presi-dent finance; Marvin L. Davis, vice-president sales; Chris F. Whelan, vice-president eco-nomic forecasting. Emplovees: 2,416. Fleet: five Boeing 707-124, five DC-7B. oneDC-6B, 13 Viscount 812. Leased aircraft: five DC-3. Continentale Deutsche Luftreederei GmbH—CDL commenced non-scheduled operations in June 1959 with DC-4s. The company speci-alises in charter flights to the Middle East, Far East and Africa.Head Office: Hamburg, Germany. Executives: Max Wachtel, chairman of theboard; Jacques Brodu, director; Gustav Hornei, director; Kurt Kraemer, director.Employees: 55. Fleet:' three DC-4. On order: one DC-6,one DC-4. Copter Air Transport is a new Australian heli-copter operator that intends to start services between Newcastle, Sydney, Wollongong andKatoomba. Two Sikorsky S-61s may be ordered to supplement the S-58s.Fleet: On order: two Sikorsky S-58. Cordova Airlines Inc began operations in 1934and now operates services in the Anchorage - Cordova - Seward area.
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