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1961
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498 FLIGHT, 13 April 1961 WORLD AIRLINES SURVEY . . . DC-3s. All the company's capital is held by local interests.Head Office: Giaddat Istiklal 218 (PO Box No 245), Tripoli. Libya.Executives: Hag Mustapha Mezran, president; Mario L. Lotti, manager. Linea Aerea Borinquen is a Nicaraguan car- rier operating a converted Boeing B-17. Linea Aerea del Cobre Ltda—LADECOoperates DC-3s on domestic services within Chile between Santiago. Potrerillos. Anto-fagasta and Calama. and also southwards from Santiago to Puerto Montt and RioCisnes. LADECO was formed in November. 1958 to take over the domestic operations ofanother Chilean carrier. CINTA. which has since gone out of business. The DC-3s arefitted with more powerful R-1830-94 engines to improve performance from high altitudeChilean airfields. Head Office: Amunateui 73, Santiago, Chile. Employees: 43. F/m: two DC-3. Linea Aerea Nacional de Chile—LAN wasfounded in 1932 by the Chilean Government to take over Linea Aeropostal Santiago Arica.The original fleet consisted of three Ford Tri- motors. The company has developed servicesthroughout the length of Chile and inter- national routes to Uruguay, Argentina,Bolivia, Peru, Panama and the US. Convair 440s have recently been introduced ondomestic services. Head Office: Los Cerrillos Airport, Santiago.Executives: M. Yanquez, president; H. Duffau, secretary general; H. M. Sauvageor. businessmanager; J. Jarpa, operations manager; R. Hirigoyen, traffic and sales manager.Employees: 1,617. Fleet: three DC-6B, four Martin 2-0-2, 17 DC-3, two L.10 Electra, one Beechcraft Bonanza, Convair 440. Linea Aeropostal Venezolana—LAV wasfounded in 1933 when the Venezuelan Govern- ment took over the routes and equipment ofthe Cie Gle Aeropostale which had begun operating in Venezuela in 1930. LAV beganflying with Latecoere 28 monoplanes and the first new type to be introduced was the L-10Electra. LAV, which took over TACA de Venezuela on July 1, 1957. now has a 10,000-mile network. In addition to internal services, regional services are operated to the USA,Panama, Curacao, Havana. Bogota, Quito, Lima and throughout the Caribbean, and anintercontinental service is operated to Lisbon, Madrid and Rome via Bermuda or San Juanand the Azores. The international services of LAV and Avensa will in future be operated byVIASA, for which LAV will provide Super Constellations. LAV will have a small holdingin VIASA. Head Office: Caracas, Venezuela.Executive: H. F. Viale-Riga, president. Fleet: five L.1049G, one L.1049E, threeViscount, two Martin 2-0-2, four C-46, 28 DC-3. Lineas Aereas Colombiana Expresa operates two Fairchild C-82s on internal services within Colombia. Lineas Aereas Costarricenses SA—LACSAwas founded in 1945 by Pan American Air- ways, the Government of Costa Rica andCosta Rican private interests. PAA originally held 36 per cent of the stock but is believed nowto hold a smaller percentage. Scheduled operations began in 1946. In 1952 LACSAtook over TACA de Costa Rica, which had operated since 1939 as one of the units of theTACA system. LACSA operates a network of internal services based on San Jose and alsoroutes to Panama, El Salvador, Mexico, Cayman Islands and Miami. A DC-6A/B hasrecently been acquired from Aramco. Head Office: Apartado 1531, San Jose. CostaRica. Executives: Antonio Pefia, president; Fer- nando Cruz, general manager; Otto Escalante, operations manager. Fleet: one DC-6A/B, two DC-3, four C-46. two Convair 340. Lineas Aereas de California SA—LAC wasformed in 1958 and operates a regular service between Ensenada and Mexico City viaDurango and Tepic. Head Office: Mexico City, Mexico.Executives: J. Tighman, president; C. Cer- vantes, general manager.Fleet: two C-46. Lineas Aereas de Cuyo SA was licensed tooperate scheduled services from Mendoza to points within Argentina and to Santiago deChile. Services radiating from Mendoza linked several points in northern Argentina,including Cordoba, Buenos Aires, Mar del Plata and San Carlos de Bariloche, as well asSantiago, and last year Convair 240s were added to the fleet. This network has now beentaken over by the newly formed Argentine carrier Transporte Aereo Costa Atlantica,together with the equipment of Lineas Aereas de Cuyo, which is believed to have ceasedoperations as a separate company. Head Office: 9 de Julio 1050, Mendoza,Argentina. Fleet: Convair 240, Lodestar. Lineas Aereas de Nicaragua SA—LANICAwas founded in June 1945 with Pan American Airways holding 40 per cent of the company'scapital (now 20 per cent). Internal services were begun in 1946 with a fleet consisting oftwo Boeing 247 aircraft. At present the com- pany serves five points in Nicaragua in addi-tion to its home city, Managua, and operates international services using DC-4s to Miamiand San Salvador. Head Office: Managua. Nicaragua.Executives: Col L. A. Somoza, president; A. Sacasa, vice-president; F. P. Powers, vice-president; F. Gaitan, treasurer; C. A. Telloria, secretary. Fleet: one Viscount, six DC-3, one C-46, oneRyan Navion, one Beech 18. Lineas Aereas del Estado—LADE, wasfounded in September 1940 as a branch of the Argentine Air Force to operate services toisolated areas which could not be worked as commercial undertakings. After the war theseservices were taken over by commercial air- lines but LADE is again flying domesticservices, many to points also served by private enterprise Argentine domestic operators.Head Office: Buenos Aires, Argentina. Executives: Brig-Gen H. Rivara, director;J. F. Budin, general manager; D. Petronio, traffic manager.Fleet: Viking, DC-3, DC-4. Lineas Aereas Espanolas—see Iberia, LineasAereas de Espafia. Lineas Aereas lnterpolar. Little is knownabout this Chilean carrier. A C-46 operating under this title crashed in Peru on May 21,1959. Lineas Aereas Unidas SA—LAUSA wasfounded in 1951 and operates within Mexico. Head Office: Mexico City, Mexico.Fleet: three DC-3, two C-46. Lineas Expresa Bolivar Compania Anonima—LEBCA operates freight services between Caracas and Miami. No recent news of thiscarrier is available. Head Office: Caracas, Venezuela. Executives: H. Perez, chairman. Fleet: two C-46, one DC-3, one Cessna 180, one Navion. Lineas Interamerieanos Aereas Ltda hasoperated internal services within Colombia since 1950.Head Office: Bogota, Colombia. Executive: G. D. Granados, president.Fleet: three C-46. Linee Aeree Sarde—LAS is an Italian heli-copter airline formed in 1959 that signed a letter of intent for three Westland Westminstersin that year. With the discontinuation of further development of the Westminster, thiscarrier plans to start helicopter operations next year, and it has expressed an intentionto operate 40/45-seat helicopters over routes between Sardinia, Corsica, the French Riviera,the Italian mainland and Tunis. Head Office: Via Yser, Rome. Linjeflyg AB was founded in 1957 to operatedomestic passenger services in Sweden and to take over newspaper delivery services fromanother carrier, Airtaco. Operations began in April 1957. Charter and ambulance work isalso undertaken. Linjeflyg is jointly owned by SAS (50 per cent), the two leading Swedishnewspapers Dagens Nyheter AB (33' per cent), Stockholms Tidningen AB (8 5 per cent)and the Swedish newspaper distribution organisation AB Svenska Pressbyran (8' percent). One Convair 340/440 is on charter to the United Nations in the Congo.Head Office: Bromma Airport, Stockholm, Sweden. Executives: O. Karleby, chairman; S. Ostling,president; Bo Nilsson. assistant to president; A. Weimar, technical and operations manager;C. O. Munkberg. commercial manager; T. Andersson, flight superintendent; S. Sandberg;traffic and sales manager. Employees: 400.Fleet: 'eight DC-3, five Convair 340/440. Lloyd Aero Boliviano SA—LAB was foundedby German immigrants on September 14, 1925, and opened in that year a route betweenCochabamba and Santa Cruz. Junkers F13s were used on these first services. The companywas taken over as the Bolivian national airline in 1941 and Panagra was given a contract toadminister the airline. The government of Bolivia still holds most of the stock of LAB, buta 20 per cent minority is owned by Panagra. The airline operates a network of domesticservices and also routes to Arica in Chile, Salta and Buenos Aires, Argentina, andCorumba, Brazil. Head Office: Cochabamba, Bolivia.Executives: Alvaro Perez del Castillo, president; Rudolfo Galindo, general manager.Fleet: one DC-6B, two DC-4, two Boeing B-17 freighters, nine DC-3. Lloyd Aereo Colombiano—LAC is a smallcompany operating internally within Colombia and to Miami.Head Office: Bogota, Colombia. Fleet: one DC-3, two C-46. Loftleidir HF, formed on March 10, 1944.has operated services within Iceland and between Iceland and other European destina-tions, but since March 1952 has confined its activities to the operation of North Atlanticservices. These now link New York and Reykjavik to Glasgow, London, Amsterdam, Northeast's Convair 880s were introduced in February this year
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