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FLIGHT, 13 April 1961 497 Mexicana's three Comet 4Cs link Mexico City with Los Angeles, Chicago, San Antonio and Caracas WORLD AIRLINES SURVEY . . . Kellogg Hangar Service lnc in 1959 com-menced operating freight services with Twin Beechcrafts serving 11 points between Chicagoand Detroit. Head Office: 3037 Dickman Road, BattleCreek, Michigan, USA. Fleer: Twin Beechcraft. Kenting Aviation Ltd, a member of the HuntingGroup, specializes in aerial survey and world- wide charter operations. A subsidiary, Kent-ing Helicopters Ltd, operates three S-55s on transport duties. Head Office: 1450 O'Connor Drive, Toronto,Ontario, Canada. Executives: D. Kendall, president; W.Godfrey, vice-president; M. Dedrick, secre- tary; A. Soutar. general manager.Employees: 75. Fleet: three B-17, two Lockheed 14, twoHudson, five Canso, one Aero Commander, one Anson, one Cessna, three S-55. Koninklijke Luchtvaart Maatschappij NV—KLM, the Dutch national airline, began opera- tions in May, 1920. A European network wasestablished, and services to Java began in 1929. Services were begun in the West Indies in1935 and these continued throughout the war, so the company can claim 41 years of con-tinuous operation. With a present unduplicated route mileage ofover 170,000 miles, KLM has a network of European routes, a West Indies and CentralAmerican network, and routes between Europe and North, Central and South America; Northand South Africa; the Near, Middle and Far East; and Australia. Last year it inauguratedtwo new routes to West Africa and now flies to 80 countries. For more than 30 yearsKLM was directed by its founder, the late Dr Albert Plesman. KLM is a non-subsidizedprofit-making company with approximately 70 per cent of the company's capital held bythe Dutch Government. Shares are listed on the Amsterdam and New York StockExchanges. DC-8s operate North and mid- Atlantic and Far East services and will beintroduced later this year on the Polar, South African and South American routes.Head Office: The Hague, Holland. Executives: I. A. Aler, president; E. H. van derBeugel, president-elect; F. Besancon, L. H. Slotemaker, J. van der Weil, executive vice-presidents. Employees: 18.600. Fleet: eight DC-8, 13 DC-7C, two DC-7F,12 L.188 (Electra), two L.1049H, seven L.1049E, eight L.749A, six DC-6 (CaribbeanDivision), two DC-6A, nine Viscount 803, 10 Convair 340, six DC-3 Freighters, threeDC-3 (Caribbean Division), three DC-3 (on charter to "De Kroonduif") two FokkerF.27. On order: five DC-8 (current). Korean National Airlines—KNA was foundedunder the Ministry of Transport in 1947, and operated routes radiating from Seoul withStinson Voyagers. DC-3s were introduced in 1950 shortly before the Korean war stoppedcommercial operations, which were resumed in 1952. The company now operates DC-3 andDC-4 services within South Korea and a Con- stellation service between Seoul and HongKong. The company has been considering opening a Korea - USA route via Honolulu.Head Office: Seoul, South Korea. Executives: Y. W. Shinn, president; M. Kirk,managing director; S. Kim, acting traffic and sales manager; M. McCormick, chief engineer.Fleet: one L.749, one DC-4, three DC-3. Korolevu Air Transport operates non-scheduledand charter services in the Fiji islands. Head Office: Nandi, Fiji.Fleet: one Piper Caribbean. Kuwait Airways Ltd was founded in 1953 asKuwait National Airways, the present name being adopted in 1955. Kuwait Airways iswholly owned by Government and local interests, the head office being in Kuwait andthe commercial and operations managements in Beirut. BOAC took over the technicalmanagement of Kuwait Airways in June 1958 and in September 1959 British Inter-national Air Lines, a wholly-owned BOAC subsidiary in Kuwait that provided a numberof contract and charter services in the Kuwait area, merged with Kuwait Airways. Thelatter operates services to Bahrain, Doha, Dhahran, Karachi, Bombay, Cairo, Beirut,Jerusalem and Damascus. A service to London via Tripoli and Nice is expected tocommence later, possibly using a Comet 4C chartered from MEA.Head Office: PO Box 394, Kuwait. Executives: N. Y. Al Nisf, chairman; A. A.Al Saqr, vice-chairman; G. A. Boughton. chief executive; A. R. Al Mishri, manager;S. M. Killingback, commercial manager; Capt E. N. Jepps, operations manager; Y.Hindi, chief accountant; A. J. Dady, chief engineer.Fleet: four Viscount, one DC-3. LAB—see Lloyd Aereo Bolivano. LAC—see Lloyd Aereo Colombiano or LineasAreas de California. LACSA—see Lineas Aereas CostarricensesSA. LADE—see Lineas Aereas del Estado. LAI—see Linee Aeree Italiane SpA andAlitalia. LANICA—see Lineas Aereas de Nicaragua SA. LOT—Polskie Linie Lotnicze was formed bythe Government in 1929 to take over the operations of the private companies Aerolotand Aero of Poznan. By the start of the war LOT had established itself with a modernfleet of L.10 Electras. Lockheed 14s and DC-2s. Part of this fleet was brought toEngland and served with BOAC. The airline flies domestic services linking Warsaw andsome of the main towns of Poland and inter- national services to Amsterdam, Athens, Bel-grade, Berlin, Brussels, Bucharest. Budapest, Copenhagen, London, Moscow, Paris, Prague,Rome, Sofia, Vienna, Vilno and Zurich. A service to Stockholm will be opened this year,which will later be extended to Helsinki. Other services to Africa, the Far, Middle and NearEast are also contemplated. Head Office: Warsaw, Poland.Executives: J. Krzywicki, general director; A. Wojnowski, commercial director; R. Kury-janski, technical director. Fleet: Li-2,11-14, four Convair 240. On order:three 11-18 (current). Lake Central Airlines Inc began services inNovember 1949 and works 2,175 miles of routes in the states between and to the southof Lakes Erie and Michigan. In 1955 employees of the airline bought the company's entirestock. During 1960, Lake Central was authorized to extend its services east as far asWashington, DC, and Baltimore, serving a total of 50 points. Services to these communi-ties which Lake Central is newly authorized to serve are being inaugurated during thefirst five months of 1961. During this year, Lake Central plans to double its route milesand staff. Head Office: Weir Cook Airport, Indianapolis,Indiana, U.S.A. Executives: J. J. O'Connell, chairman of theboard of directors; G. Hicks, president; L. W. Hartman, executive vice-president and generalmanager; R. W. Clifford, vice-president operations; W. H. Krieg, secretary; D. S. Getchell, vice-president traffic and sales;J. L. Cory, treasurer. Employees: 450.Fleet: two Allison-Convair 340, 13 DC-3 owned, two DC-3 leased. On order: threeAllison-Convair 340, seven DC-3. Lancia Airlines is a US non-scheduled carrierthat acquired a DC-4 from TWA last year. Las Vegas Hacienda is the name of a USindirect carrier that operated Dunes Magic Carpet Tours from US west coast cities toLas Vegas on behalf of the Dunes Hotel of Las Vegas. The CAB has recently ordered theM & R Investment Co, proprietors of the Dunes Hotel, to cease operating as an indirectair carrier. Las Vegas Hacienda's fleet includes a DC-4 fitted with forward and aftlounges, a piano forward and 48 loudspeakers in the cabin. More recently an ex-TWAConstellation was added to the fleet. Head Office: Las Vegas, Nevada.Fleet: one L.049 Constellation, one DC-4, two DC-3. Laurentian Air Services Ltd was founded in1936 and now operates charter flights and a regular service from Ottawa to St Jovite.Head Office: Ottawa, Ont, Canada. Executives: A. B. MacLaren, president; J. M.Bogie, executive vice-president; D. Pickering, manager.Employees: 35. Fleet: seven Beaver, one Cessna, one Goose. Leavens Bros Ltd, which operates passengerservices between Windsor, Ontario, and Pelee Island in Lake Erie, using two Cessna T-50sand one Piper Apache, was originally formed in 1927. It was incorporated as Leavens BrosAir Services in 1935 and was reorganized under its present name in 1953.Head Office: Toronto, Ontario, Canada. Executives: C. R. Leavens, president andgeneral manager; R. H. Leavens, vice-presi- dent; C. D. Leavens, secretary; R. O. Brown,treasurer. Employees: 95.Fleet: 24 various. Lebanese International Airways—LIA com-menced scheduled services in January 1956 and now operates twice a week between Beirut,Milan, Paris and Brussels with DC-6Bs. Other services connect Beirut with Teheran, Kuwait,Dhahran, Bahrain and Dana. Sabena provided technical and operational assistance but hasnow terminated all collaboration with LIA. Head Office: Rue Justinian, Beirut, Lebanon.Executives: A. Arida, president; Capt J. van Rooyen, manager. Fleet: one DC-6C and one DC-4 leased fromAir Liban. Leeward Islands Air Transport Services Ltdwas formed in 1956 as a subsidiary of BWIA, who have a 51 per cent holding. LIAT oper-ates services in the Leeward, Windward and Virgin Islands and to Trinidad.Head Office: 42J44 St Mary's Street, St John's, Antigua, West Indies.Executives: Sir E. Dos Santos, chairman; E. R. Luni Hee, secretary.Fleet: two Heron 2, four Twin Bonanza. Liberian National Airways is a Government-owned airline which began operations in 1952. Internal services are operated from Roberts-field and Monrovia to five other points. Head Office: Robertsfield, Liberia.Executive: F. H. Syphert, president. Fleet: two DC-3. Libiavia—Nord Africa Aviazione SpA or NAALibiavia was founded in 1931 and from 1946 concentrated on airline agency work. In July1958 the company started its own air services, and now operates twice-weekly over theTripoli - Benghazi - Athens route using DC- 6A/B equipment chartered from UAT. ATripoli - Sebha service is also operated with
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