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496 FLIGHT, 13 April 1961 WORLD AIRLINES SURVEY . . . Indamer Co (Private) Ltd, an Indian charter company, at present leases its fleet to Kalinga Air Lines.Head Office: Juhu, Bombay 23. Executives: P. Baldwin, J. Koszarek, S.Iyengar, directors. Fleet: one DC-3. Indian Airlines Corporation—IAC was formedin 1953, taking over on August 1 that year the services previously operated by a number ofprivate airlines. Operating 21,119 miles of routes in India and to Afghanistan, Burma,Ceylon. Nepal and East and West Pakistan, the Corporation's operations are divided intothree areas with bases at Bombay, Calcutta and Delhi. IAC is responsible for all Indian internalservices. Three more Viscounts may be acquired from Union of Burma Airways.Headquarters: Thapar House, Jan Path, New Delhi, India. Executives: V. Shankar. chairman; P. C. Lai,general manager; S. C. Mukerji, secretary; J. S. Parakh, financial comptroller; Capt J. M.Engineer, chief operations and training manager; Biren Mukerji, chief traffic manager.Employees: 9,463. Fleet:'five DC-4, 12 Viking (not in use), 40DC-3, three Heron, 10 Viscount 768. On order: five Fokker Friendship. Intercontinental Airlines is a US non-scheduledcarrier operating a single DC-4. Interflug GmbH is the second East Germanairline and was formed on September 18. 1958, to specialize in international travel, andservices from the German Democratic Repub- lic to West Germany and Copenhagen. Thetitle was the result of a ruling by the Inter- national Court of Justice at The Hague toprevent confusion with the Deutsche Lufthansa of West Germany. Interflug is run jointly bythe East German Lufthansa and the Deutsche Reisebilros (German Stale Travel Agency).The only scheduled service operated at present is between Berlin, Budapest and Belgrade,with the East German Lufthansa operating in parallel over the same route. Four-jetVEB-152s were to have been operated. Head Office: Flanzosische Strasse 53-56,Berlin, W.8, German Democratic Republic. Executives: Arthur Pieck, director-general.Fleet: 11-18, 11-14. On order: three VEB- 152A-1. Interior Enterprises Inc operates charterservices in Alaska. Head Office: Box 438, Fairbanks, Alaska. Executives: J. S. Magoffin, president; D. R.Magoffin, executive vice-president. Fleet: three C-46, two DC-3, six Cessna 180,three Norseman, 11 others. Interocean Airways SA is a recently formedcharter operator registered in Luxembourg, and offering charter services with 70-74 seatDC-4s convertible to freighters. Head Office: Luxembourg Airport, Luxem-bourg. Fleet: one DC-4 owned, one DC-4 leasedfrom Loftleidir. Iranian Airways Co—Iranair was founded asa private company in 1944 and began full scale scheduled operations in May 1946. Operationshave steadily increased and Iranair routes now extend across the Middle East from Karachito Ankara. Fourteen cities are served in Iran and the airline flies regular services to Pakistan, Afghanistan, Iraq, Kuwait. Saudi Arabia,Qatar, Oman, Syria, the Lebanon, Turkey, Italy, Switzerland and Germany.Head Office: Avenue Saadi, Teheran, Iran. Employees: 693. Executives: Reza Afshar, chairman andmanaging director; Houshang Afshar, assis- tant managing director; John Waterman,operations director; R. Semnad, director of traffic and sales; Ahmed Majidi, member ofthe board of directors and financial director; K. Murray, maintenance manager.Fleet: three Viscount 782, two DC-4, 13 DC-3. Iraqi Airways was founded in 1945 as a sub-sidiary of the Government-owned Iraqi State Railways. The airline left Iraqi Railways andbecame a separate company on April 1, 1960. BOAC supplies certain technical staff andassistance as required. Viscounts operate frequent services from Baghdad to Bahrein,Amman, Basra, Beirut, Damascus, Cairo, Kuwait and Teheran, and a twice-weeklyservice to London, via Istanbul, Budapest or Vienna and Prague. Viscount services areoperated to Mosul and Kirkuk. There is also a once-fortnightly service to Karachi and Delhi.Iraqi Airways may order Comets in the near future. Head Office: Baghdad, Iraq.Executives: Col Nasser Aljanbi, director; Kana'an el Askari. manager; T. D. Walters,technical adviser; C. H. Robinson, chief engineer.Fleet: four Viscount, three Viking, one Dove. Itavia—Societa di Navigazione Aerea SpAoperates a twice-daily service on weekdays only between Rome and Pescara and otherservices between Rome and Siena and Rome and Genoa.Head Office: Urbe Airport, Via Salaria, Rome, Italy.Fleet: two Heron, one Dove. Japan Air Lines Co—JAL (Nihon KokuKabushiki Kaisha) is successor to the Japan Air Lines founded by private interests, andwhich commenced operation in October 1951 of domestic services using Martin 2-0-2s andDC-4s which, together with crews, were leased from Northwest Airlines. On October 1, 1953,the new company came into being with the Government holding 50 per cent of the stock.Maintenance of JAL's fleet is performed by JAMCO, the Japan Aircraft Maintenance Co,in which JAL has a 57 per cent holding. JAL began international operations in February1954 between Tokyo, Honolulu and San Fran- cisco, and between Tokyo and Okinawa. TheTokyo - Okinawa service was extended to Hong Kong in February 1955, to Bangkok inOctober 1956 and to Singapore in May 1958. In May 1959 direct services between Tokyoand Los Angeles commenced, and in July 1959 Tokyo - Seattle services by the GreatCircle route. In February 1960 an agreement was reachedwith Air France for a joint JAL/Air France service on the Polar route from Tokyo toEurope. Air France Boeing 707s bearing JAL insignia and with JAL cabin crews flewthese services until JAL's DC-8s were in service, after which the two airlines operatedDC-8s and 707s on a revenue pool basis. A similar joint venture on the route through Asiato Europe will come into effect soon. Also envisaged is a route from Tokyo across theUSA to London. Head Office: Tokyo, Japan. Off its normal route, this Malev 11-18 was photographed at Gatwick Executives: S. Metsuo, president; K. Ishikawa,vice-president; Y. Kojima, managing director. Employees: about 2,350.Fleet: four DC-8, two DC-7C, two DC-7F, five DC-6B, ten DC-4, three Heron (leasedto All Nippon Airways), one Beech D-18S (for crew training). On order: one DC-8(1961), five Convair 880/22M (1961-62). Japan Air Service Inc operates short internalfeeder services in Japan, and also sightseeing flights.Fleet: four Heron IB, two Dove, five Cessna. Johnson Flying Service Inc is a fixed-baseoperator and supplemental carrier in Montana headed by Bob Johnson, a pioneer in training"smoke jumpers" for forest fire control. Ford Trimotors are used for aerial forest fire con-trol work for the US Forest Service. Other activities of Johnson Flying Service include theoperation of a flying training school, charter flights, ambulance, crop spraying and rangeseeding services, oil exploration and snow measurement surveys. A CAA-certifiealedsupplemental service is also operated. Head Office: Missoula, Montana.Executive: Bob Johnson, president. Fleet: two DC-3, three Ford Trimotor, fourhelicopters, about 19 other aircraft. Jordan International Airlines. Little is knownabout this carrier except that a Curtiss C-46 operated by it was damaged at Jerusalem onJune 15, 1959, and was subsequently offered for sale. A Douglas DC-4 is also owned. Noscheduled services are operated. Jugoslovenski Aerotransport — JAT wasfounded in 1946 and is now the sole Jugoslav airline; it is completely state-owned. Domesticservices are operated as well as routes to Athens, Cairo, Frankfurt. Munich, Berlin,Paris, Vienna, Rome, Prague, Tirana and Zurich. Head Office: PO Box 749, Belgrade. Jugo-slavia. Executives: M. Simovic. general manager; M.Rakic, traffic director; R. Radojevic, finance director; R. Radojkovic, technical director; G.Vojvodic. commercial director. Fleet: 13 DC-3, one Convair 340, two Convair440, six Ilyushin 14, one DC-6B. KLM—see Koninklijke Luchtvaart Maat-schappij. KNA—see Korean National Airlines. Kalingar Air Lines (Private) Ltd was formed in1947 but suspended operations when India's domestic air services were nationalized in1953. Non-scheduled services were started again in 1958, and since May of last year foodsupply dropping operations to isolated com- munities have been undertaken. Kalinga isnegotiating for the purchase of two DHC-4 Caribous. Head Office: 33 Chittaranjan Avenue, Cal-cutta. Executives: B. Patnaik, chairman; C. Balan.secretary; A. Ahmed, traffic manager; Capt T. H. J. Prowse, operations manager; A. C.Sekhn, chief engineer. Employees: 180.Fleet: seven DC-3 (one leased from Indamer). Kar-Air O/Y (Karhumaki Airways) is theairline operating offshoot of the long-estab- lished Finnish aircraft manufacturing, main-tenance and charter organization. Scheduled operations were begun in 1950 betweenHelsinki and Joensuu, using two D.H.89s bought from Aero O/Y. In the following yearfurther internal routes were operated as well as one to Sundsvall in Sweden and Lodestarswere then used. The company's present routes are from Helsinki to Tampere and Stockholm;Helsinki - Lappeenranta - Joensuu; Helsinki - Tampere - Halli - Jyvaskyla - Kauhava - Kokk-ola and (as from April 1) Helsinki - Gothenburg - Luxembourg-Barcelona-Malega. A good dealof inclusive tour and group charter business is done, and geological survey work is under-taken with the Lodestar. Head Office: 3 Lonnrotinkatu, Helsinki.Finland. Executives: U. KarhumSki, president; L.Colliander, traffic manager; T. Karhumaki, technical manager.Employees: 185. Fleet: four DC-3, one Lodestar, two Convai,440.
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