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FLIGHT International, 12 April 1962 THE WORLD'S AIRLINES... administrative officer; Capt K. Vishwanath, operations manager; K. G. Appuswamy, engineering manager; A. S. Banavalikar, personnel manager; R. N. Gundil, secretary. Employees: 5,261. Fleet: four Boeing 707-437, seven L.1049G, two L.1049G freighters, one DC-3 freighter. On order: two Boeing 707-437. Air Inter—Lignes Aeriennes Interieures was formed in 1954 to operate internal services within metropolitan France. Services were started in March 1958 using aircraft chartered from Air France, TAI, UAT and Air Algerie. Air France and French Railways (SNCF) each have a 24.95 per cent interest in Air Inter, while UAT, TAI, Air Algerie, Aigle Azurand various banks and surface transport interests have small holdings. Services were discontinued in November 1958 but resumed on a seasonal basis during July-September 1959 when Paris - La Baule and Paris - Dinard routes were oper ated. In 1960, activities were resumed on July 1 using aircraft chartered from Air France, TAI and Airnautic, and linking Parts to Toulouse, Pau, Lille, Lyons, Nice, Dinard, Quimper, La Baule, Biarritz and Lourdes. The route network this year also includes Lorient, Brest, Vichy, Marseilles, Perpignan, Nantes, Cler mont and Nimes. Two MH.260 Super Brous- sards will be operated daring the summer. Head Office: 12 Rue de Castiglione, Paris, ler. Executives: Admiral P. Hebrard, president- director general; P Marland, secretary- general; J. Arnaud, technical director; J. Francois, commercial director. Employees: 15 Fleet- five Viscount 708 owned; DC-6, Viking, DC-4, L.749,- Caravelle chartered from Air France, TAI and Airnautic. Air Jordan of the Holv Land was the successor to the two scheduled Jordanian airlines, Air Jordan Co Ltd and Arab Airways (Jerusalem) Ltd. On December 1, 1958, the latter two airlines merged to form the new company though management was retained until 1960 by Transocean Air Lines. The Con- vair and DC-4 equipment which had been introduced in 1958 by Air Jordan Co Ltd was kept by the new company and the routes of both were consolidated into one service. Routes operated from Amman and Jeru salem included Beirut, Cairo, Damascus, Baghdad, Kuwait, Jeddah, Dhahran, Aqaba, Nicosia and Rome. Air- Jordan's services were suspended by the Jordanian Government because of an alleged illegal flight from Cairo to Stanleyville in the Congo, and its operating licence was cancelled on September 13, 1961. Head Office: Box 274, Amman, Jordan. Executives: A. Z. Nuseibeh, chairman; Abdul Muti El Qutob, general manager; W. R. Rivers, executive director; Walter B. McCarthy, director of traffic and sales; R. V. Williams, director of maintenance; H. C. Gilmore, chief pilot. Fleet: two DC-6, one DC-4, one DC-3. Air Katanga was formed early in 1961 as the national airline of Katanga; Sabena provided technical assistance and equipment. No scheduled services are operated, so far as is known. Fleet: one DC-4. one Convair 440, two DC-3 Air Korea is a newly formed carrier which has started operations with ex-Western Airlines Convair 240s. It is believed that domestic- services within Korea are operated. Head Office: Seoul, South Korea. Fleet: two Convair 240. Air Laos Transports Aeriens was formed in 1952 by Air France, Aigle Azur and local interests. Air France subscribed 30 per cent of the original stock and Aigle Azur 20 per cent. Services were operated from Vientiane to a number of places in Laos and Cambodia and to Saigon, Bangkok and Hong Kong, but all scheduled services have now been suspended. Head Office: Box 87, Vientiane, Laos. Fleet: two DC-3, seven Beaver. Air Liban was founded in 1945 as Compagnie Generate de Transport and took its present title in 1951. The company operates services between Beirut, Rome and Paris, Beirut and Khartoum, Kano, Lagos, Accra, Abidjan and Monrovia. Regional services link Beirut to Cairo, Aleppo, Nicosia, Jerusalem, Kuwait, Dhahran, Doha and Jeddah. Air Liban's services to West Africa cater for the many Lebanese who have emigrated there over the years. Caravelle operations started in De cember 1960. Head Office: Immeuble Esseily, Place Riad Solh, Beirut, Lebanon. Executives: Antoine Sehnaoui, president; Jean Peyrondet, commercial director. Employees: 529. Fleet: one DC-6C, one Caravelle 1A, one Caravelle 3, three DC-3, Air Lloyd Deutsche Nah-Luftverkehr AG was formed last December by the merger of two German taxi and charter operators, Deutsche Nah-Luftverkehr AG of Gummersbach, founded in 1959, and Deutsche Taxiflug GmbH of Mannheim, operating since 1958. Air Lloyd will continue taxi, joy-riding, sight-seeing and survey flights but will eventually sell its single- engined aircraft and concentrate on twin- engined types; helicopters may be purchased if sufficiently economical types are available. The two companies forming Air Lloyd carried nearly 50,000 passengers in 1961. Fleet: 12 twin-engined types (Dornier Do 28, Twin Bonanza, Piaggio P. 166), 13 single- engined aircraft (Dornier Do 27, Super Cub). Air Madagascar was established in 1947 and operates a network of services within Mada gascar. The company is a subsidiary of TAI and on January 1, 1962, its routes in Mada gascar were taken over by Madair. Air Madagascar has a 36 per cent holding in Madair. Head Office: 8 Rue General Roques, Tanana rive, Madagascar. Executives: M. Vernier, director general; M. Garros, asst director; M. Meyer, chief pilot; M. Lossignol, chief of technical services. Employees: 192. Fleet: four DC-3, six DH.89, two Cessna 170, one Broussard. Air Mali was formed in 1961 as the flag carrier of the Mali Republic, which consists of Senegal and the French Sudan. Russia has supplied technical assistance and equipment to Air Mali, and the British Government has presented it with three ex-BEA DC-3s. Air Mali operates a once-weekly Bamako-Mar seilles - Paris service with 11-18s, while domes tic services and regional services to Volta. Italy's State airline operates ten Caravelltts 553 Ghana, Guinea and the Ivory Coast are operated by Il-14s and DC-3s. There is a weekly Rabat (Morocco) - Bamako 11-18 service, and An-2 biplanes operate a further network of domestic services. Head Office: PO Box 27A, Bamako, Republic of Mali. Fleet: 11-18, 11-14. Antonov An-2, three DC-3. Air New-Mex is a US non-scheduled operator that last year leased seven ex-Northwest Orient DC-4s for three years from The Air craft Holding Co of Seattle. Head Office: Albuquerque, New Mexico, USA. Fleet: seven DC-4. Air Paris is the name of a new French operator that has recently bought a Heron 1 from UAT. Air St. Pierre is a recently formed French- Canadian carrier that began operations last year of a daily service between Sydney (Nova Scotia) and St Pierre (Miquelon Island), which is French territory. Head Office: St Pierre, Miquelon Island, Canada. Fleet: Cessna 310. Air Vietnam was founded in 1951 to take over domestic and regional services previously operated by Air France. The Vietnamese Government holds 50 per cent of the stock and Air France holds 33 per cent. Air Vietnam flies domestic services and to Laos, Cambodia, Hong Kong and Bangkok. Head Office: Box 217, Saigon, Vietnam. Executives: N. Van Khai, president; M. Bruvant, vice-president. Fleet: two Viscount 708 leased from Air France, seven DC-3, one DC-4. Airnautic started charter operations in Europe in 1958, and has since operated scheduled services for Air Inter and Air France. The company concentrates on freight charters and inclusive tour flights, and its operations base is at Nice. Air France has recently acquired a majority shareholding in Airnautic, and two ex-Air Liban DC-6s have been added to the fleet. Head Office: 156 Boulevard Hausmann, Paris. Executives: Jacques Dewez, Raoul Wander, directors. Fleet: three Boeing 307 Stratoliner, two DC-6C, five Viking, one DC-2. Airlines of New South Wales Pry Ltd was until December 18, 1959. known as Butler Air Transport Pty Ltd, which was founded in 1934 to operate a Charlcville - Cootamundra service connecting with the Imperial Airways/Qantas England - Australia route. The airline was
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