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••;«¥«•?<••• 510 FLIGHT, 13 April 1961 THY's Viscount 794s operate into Europe as far as Frankfurt WORLD AIRLINES SURVEY . . . American Airlines DC-6B has recently beenacquired. Head Office: Miami 48, Florida. Executives: A. J. Leeward, president; R. J. Leeward, vice-president.Fleet: one DC-6B, five DC-3, one C-47, one C-82, two Hiller. Trans Island Airways Ltd was formed inFebruary 1956 to provide air services for North Otago, South Canterbury and Nelson.The first route to be opened, in May 1956. was Christchurch - Timaru - Oamaru operated witha Rapide and mail contracts were obtained for that route and also for the Christchurch -Nelson route. Trans Island ceased operations in the summer of 1959.Head Office: Oamaru, New Zealand. Executives: K. T. Cusack, secretary; Brian G.Chadwick, chief pilot. Fleet: one Beech D-18S, one Lockheed L.10A. Trans-Labrador Airlines Ltd operate charterservices, mainly in the Province of Quebec (Labrador, Ungava and North West Terri-tories), from a base at Schcfferville (Knob- Lake). No recent news of this carrier isavailable. Head Office: PO Box 1120 Mont-Joli, PQ,Canada. Executives: C. W. Hoyt, president; J. B. Scott,vice-president; Raymond Paradis, secretary. Fleet: three DC-3, one Canso PBY (Catalina). Trans Mar de Cortes SA was founded as aprivate company in 1947 and began operations in December 1948 with freight and mailservices. Passenger carriage began in 1949 and in July 1952 the company took over LineasAereos del Pacifico. A network of routes is operated in the Gulf of California area.Head Office: La Paz, Lower California, Mexico. Executives: M. Obregon, director/manager; L.Coppola, general manager; T. B. Lee, opera- tions manager.Fleet: three DC-3, one F-27. Trans-Mediterranean Airways SAL—TMAwas founded in 1953 by Munir Abu Haidar and became a Lebanese limited company onDecember 15, 1960. Both charter and regular freight services are operated. A twice-weeWyservice from Teheran, Baghdad and Beirut to Frankfurt via Brindisi and Basle is flown, andother services link Beirut with Kuwait, Dhahran, Bahrain and Doha.Head Office: PO Box 3018. Beirut, Lebanon. Executives: Munir Abu Haidar, managingdirector; M. V. Richmond, general manager; H. Haddad, company secretary; J. Wood-house, chief engineer; Shafiq Zakhour, sales manager; Capt David Prowse, chief pilot;J. L. Sleiman, assistant to general manager; Kamal Khauli, government and publicrelations officer; C. Philippedes, adminis- trative and legal assistant to general manager;S. Khouri, chief accountant. Employees: 450. Fleet: five DC-4, three York, one PercivalPrentice. Trans Sierra Airlines is a newly formed US carrier that recently purchased a DC-3 from Mohawk Airlines. Trans-Texas Airways—TTA was founded in1944 as Aviation Enterprises and began scheduled operation in October 1947. Theairlines now has about 3,000 miles of routes within Texas and between that state andLouisiana, Tennessee, Arkansas and Missis- sippi. Trans-Texas is reported to be negotia-ting for seven ex-American Airlines Convair 240s.Head Office: Houston, Texas, USA. Executives: R. E. McKaughan, president;H. E. Erdmann, vice-president operations; L. J. Eichner, vice-president traffic and sales;M. L. Muse, secretary/treasurer. Fleet: 25 DC-3. Trans World Airlines Inc—TWA claims itsorigin in Western Air Express, which was founded in 1925 to bid for an air mail routefrom Los Angeles to Salt Lake City. WAE began mail service in 1926. In 1929 Trans-continental Air Transport, which had inaugur- ated a combined rail/air transcontinental route,obtained control of Maddux Air Lines. At about the same time Western Air Expressabsorbed Standard Air Lines and then on October 1, 1930, TAT-Maddux and WesternAir Express completed a merger to form Trans- continental & Western Air Inc (TWA). In1934. reconstitution followed the Post Office mail-flying upheaval, and TWA became TransWorld Airlines in 1950. TWA has been res- ponsible for the initiation of some fine aircraft,having issued the specification for the Douglas DC-l/DC-2, the Boeing 307 and the Constel-lation. TWA now has more than 50,000 miles of routes stretching from coast to coast of theUSA; across the North Atlantic to Europe, North Africa, Asia and the Far East as far asManila. In 1958 the company inaugurated a one-carrier service between California andFlorida. In 1959 TWA began non-stop Boeing 707jet services between New York and California, and by the year's end was serving 11 keyAmerican cities. Last November, 707 Inter- continentals commenced services between NewYork, London and Frankfurt, and also between New York, Paris and Rome, latergoing as far as Bombay. Convair 880 services began on US routes on January 12, 1961.Head Office: New York. NY, USA. Executives: Warren Lee Pierson. chairman;Charles C. Tillinghast, Jr, president; A. V. Leslie, senior vice-president finance andtreasurer; E. O. Cocke, senior vice-president and system general manager.Employees: 20,000. Fleet: 12 Boeing 707-331, 15 Boeing 707-131,nine Convair 880, 26 L.1649A, 25 L.1049G, five L.1049H, five L.1049A, 69 Constellation,23 Martin 4-0-4, one DC-4, one Fairchi/d C-82. On order-. 11 Convair 880 (current). Transa Chile—Sociedad de Transportes Aereosde Chile Ltda—operates a regular freight service from Santiago to Caracas via Arica,Lima, Guayaquil and Panama with C-46s. Local services within Chile and to San Carlosde Bariloche (Argentina) are operated, as well as a Canso service to Juan Fernandez Islandin the Pacific. Head Office: Santiago, Chile.Executives: F. O. Devoto, president; M. C. Fische, executive vice-president.Fleet: three C-46, two Canso. Transair, not to be confused with the Swedishairline of that name, is a Danish carrier that concentrates on scheduled mail and news-paper flights from Copenhagen to the pro- vinces. Charter and survey work is alsoundertaken. Head Office: Kastrup Airport, Copenhagen.Executive: Erik P. Jensen. Fleet: one Beech C-45H, two Oxford, twoConsul. Transair Sweden AB operates inclusive tours for Swedish, Danish, Swiss and Germantravel agencies, and undertakes charter flying with passengers and freight all over the world,and also domestic night mail services. DC-3 and C-46 services in the Congo have beenoperated under charter to the United Nations. Three DC-6s were acquired from SAS in 1959,and two more from Sabena recently. Head Office: Bulltofta Airport, Malmo,Sweden. Executives: G. Ellhammar, managing director;B. Jarvell, assistant managing director; C. J. Smith, operations manager; B. Virving,technical manager; C. A. Lindh, sales man- ager; A. Ericsson, traffic manager.Employees: 285. Fleet: five DC-6, six C-46, two DC-3.Transamerican Aeronautical Corporation is a US non-scheduled carrier that plans to lease toother operators the Electras it has ordered. It is not certain if this order still stands.Fleet: one Convair 440. On order: two Electra. Transcontinental SA was formed in September1956 to operate scheduled services within Argentina and to the USA. CaliforniaEastern Aviation initially had a 25 per cent holding in Transcontinental, but this has nowbeen reduced to 5 per cent. California Eastern has also provided technical and operationalassistance, and two Super Constellations which are no longer used. Britannias operatebetween Buenos Aires and New York three times a week via Sao Paulo. Rio de Janeiroand Caracas, and also connect Buenos Aires and Santiago. Curtiss CW-20T Commutersoperate a network of domestic services in northern Argentina, to Montevideo (Uruguay)and Asuncion (Paraguay). Convair 990s are to be used on a new route to Japan.Head Office: Cerrito 1117, Buenos Aires, Argentina. Executives: R. Masllorens, president; O.Sassoli, vice-president; A. A. Garcia, general manager.Employees: 809. Fleet: two Britannia 308, seven Curtiss CW-20T. Transocean Air Lines—TALOA was one of theleading US supplemental carriers until it went bankrupt last summer. Transocean operatedex-BOAC Stratocruisers on low-fare, low- frequency services across the USA andPacific, flying a twice-weekly New York- Chicago-Los Angeles-San Francisco service,the single New York-San Francisco fare being only $80. Other services were flown betweenLos Angeles, San Francisco, Honolulu, Canton Island, Pago Pago, Wake Island,Guam and Okinawa. Transocean was also responsible for the Trust Territory servicesbetween Guam and the Caroline and Marshall Islands; these services are now operated byPan Am. Transocean* s 14 Stratocruisers were so\d as scrap for on\y £37,500 the \ot toAirline Equipment Co, a New Jersey dealer. At the time of the sa/e only two were air-worthy, and two more could be made so quickly, the rest having been used for spares.Transoccan's other aircraft have mostly been sold to airlines. Head Office: Oakland, California.Executives: O. M. Nelson, president and chair- man; S. A. Nichols, secretary/treasurer.Transpac—Societe Caledonienne de Trans- portes Aeriens operates services betweenNoumea and Isle of Pines, Lifu, Uvea, Koumac and Mare. Head Office: Noumea, New Caledonia.Executives: H. G. Martinet, president; H. G. Coursin, manager; J. A. Lafargue, chief pilot;M. A. Couillaud, chief engineer. Fleet: one D.H.89, one Heron I. Transporte Aereo Costa Atlantica SA CIFI is anewly-formed Argentine long-haul carrier that commenced operations last autumn with aonce-weekly DC-6B service from Buenos Aires to Rome via Asuncion, Brasilia, Natal.Dakar, Lisbon and Madrid. At the turn of the year this route was extended to Frankfurt andacross the Andes from Buenos Aires to United Arab Airlines Comets operate from Cairo to Lagos and Accra as well as to London.
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