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1962
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Lufthansa, the West German airline, operates a fleet of Vickers Viscount 814s THE WORLD'S AIRLINES... Cruzeiro—Servicos Aereos Cruzeiro do Sul SA. This airline's history goes back to December 1927 when Syndicate Condor Ltda was founded by German interests. A coastal route was established from Belem through Rio de Janeiro and on to Buenos Aires and across the Andes to Santiago in Chile. From Natal south this formed part of the German route to South America opened in 1934. Dornier Wal, Junkers F13 and W34s were used by Condor and later Ju52s and Focke Wulf Condors came into service. In 1942 the company was reorganized, cleared of German control and given its present name. The company now operates more than 18,000 miles of routes in Brazil and between Brazil and neighbouring countries. The DC-2 and AT-1 Is are used for air survey. The Rio de Janeiro - Sao Paulo "Air Bridge" shuttle service is operated in pool with Varig-Real and VASP. Head Office: Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. Executives: Dr J. B. R. Dantas, president; J. Q. V. de Carvalho, commercial director; Col F. A. Roche, operations director. Employees: 3,236. Fleet: 30 DC-3 (two operated by TA Catarin-ense and two by SAVAG), ten Convair 240, four Convair 340, four Convair 440, four Beech AT-11, one Douglas DC-2. Ceskoslovenske Aerolinie—CSA is the Czecho slovak state airline which was founded in 1946 as successor to the CSA established in 1923 and which, until the war, operated in competi tion with CLS. The airline now operates to 36 cities in 32 states. There are Tu-104A services between Prague and Cairo, Prague and Bombay via Cairo and Dhahran or Beirut, Prague - Moscow, Prague - London and Prague - Paris. In 1960 the Bombay service was extended to Djakarta via Rangoon (it now stops at Pnom-Penh as well), and a new 11-18 service was inaugurated between Prague and Bamako (Mali) via Zurich, Rabat and Con akry (Guinea). Il-18s also operate between Prague and Baghdad via Athens and Damas cus, to Rome and Vienna, to Milan, to Zurich and between Prague and Bratislava. 11-14s connect the Czechoslovak capital to Amster dam, Belgrade, Berlin, Brussels, Bucharest, Budapest, Copenhagen, Helsinki, Sofia, Stockholm, Tirana, Vienna and Warsaw. Il-18s will serve Berlin, Stockholm and Hel sinki in the near future. Il-14s operate a net work of domestic services. Over 150,000 passengers have been carried since 1951 on the air taxi services. A once-weekly Prague-Havana service via Shannon and Gander is operated with an ex-Cubana Britannia 318; the service was inaugurated on February 3, 1962. Head Office: Namesti Republiky, Prague, Czechoslovakia. Executives: Karel Stekl, general director; Josef Prochazka, technical director; V. Libovicky, operations director; J. Jechumtal, commercial director. Employees: 2,713. Fleet: five Tu-104A, six 11-18 Moskva, 24 11-14 (five are freighters), five Aero 45, 30 L-200 Morava. Cuba Aeropostal SA was formed in 1948 and commenced operations in 1949. Local services within Cuba were operated, but no recent news of this carrier is available. Head Office: Havana, Cuba. Executives: G. E. Alfonso, president; Dr J. M. B. Goas, secretary. Fleet: three C-46. Currey Air Transport Ltd is registered as a US supplemental air carrier, and trades under the name of Trans-Continental. It is also associ ated with Great Lakes Airlines, The CAB recently terminated Currey's operating author ity. Head Office: Oakland, California, USA. Executives: A. R. Currey, president; G. D. Thompson, vice-president. Fleet: one DC-4, one DC-6A. Cyprus Airways Ltd was founded in 1947 by BEA, the Cyprus Government and private interests. The BEA shareholding is now 22.7 per cent. Since February 1958 the services of Cyprus Airways have been operated by BEA Viscounts, and now Comets, which connect Nicosia with Athens, Istanbul, Ankara, Rome, Milan, Geneva, and London, and also to Tel Aviv, Beirut, Damascus, Kuwait and Bahrein. Head Office: Nicosia, Cyprus. Executives: G. Eliades, chairman; P. Pascha- lides, managing director; J. Theodossiou, assistant general manager. Employees: 145. Danish Air Charter is a newly formed charter and inclusive tour operator which was due to commence operations in 1961 with Viscounts bought from Air France. It is not certain if Danish Air Charter ever began operations. Head Office: Copenhagen, Denmark. Executives: O. Norbye, president; J. A. Daniels, general manager; T. Lund-Hansen, operations manager; L. Skov, station manager. Fleet: two Viscount 708. Delta Air Lines Inc, founded in 1925 as the world's first commercial crop dusting com pany, inaugurated passenger service over the route between Dallas and Atlanta in 1929. Later the route was extended to Fort Worth on the west and Charleston on the east. On May 1, 1953, Chicago and Southern Airlines Inc, founded in 1934, merged with Delta, the resulting company being known as Delta-C & S Airlines and, since 1956, as Delta Air Lines. Delta's routes stretch from New York, Detroit and Chicago in the north to Houston, Dallas, Fort Worth, New Orleans and Miami in the south and to San Francisco, Los Angeles and San Diego in the west. Delta flights through New Orleans serve Port au Prince, San Juan, Montego Bay, Aruba and Caracas. On June 11,1961 Delta inaugurated a southern transcontinental route linking the south and southwest to Las Vegas, San Francisco, Los Angeles and San Diego. The company serves 71 cities overa 14,122-mile route system. Delta was the first airline in the world to introduce DC-8 services, which began on September 18, 1959, and also the first to introduce Convair 880 services, which began on May 15, 1960; jets now serve 22 cities. Head Office: Atlanta, Georgia, USA. Executives: C. E. Woolman, president and general manager; R. W. Freeman, chairman of the board; T. G. Cole, executive vice-president administration; C. H. Dolson, executive vice- president operations; T. M. Miller, vice-president traffic and sales; W. T. Beebe, vice- president personnel; R. S. Maurer, vice-presi dent legal; R. L. Griffith, vice-president Employees: 8,600. 562 FLIGHT International, 12 April 1962 Fleet: six DC-8, 12 Convair 880, 11 DC-7, 9 DC-7B, 11 DC-6, 24 Convair 440, five C-46 freighters. On order: four Convair 880, three DC-8 Series 50. Deutsche Flugdienst GmbH—see Condor-Flugdienst GmbH. Deutscher Helicopter Dienst Essen KG oper ates a variety of helicopter charter services, including crop-spraying. Head Office: Andernach/Kretz, West Ger many. Executives: G. Nachreiner, manager; W. Kuntz, chief pilot. Employees: 40. Fleet: two Bell 47H, three Bell 47G, one HillerUH-12E4. Deutsche Lufthansa, not to be confused with the West German airline, was formed in May 1954, although it did not receive any aircraft until late 1945, when some Il-14s were sup plied under an agreement between Aeroflot and DLH. Scheduled services began on February 4, 1956, over the Berlin - Warsaw route, and internal services in East Germany began on June 16, 1957. Super Aero 45s operate taxi services from German cities to countries bordering East Germany, and AN-2s and Brigadyrs undertake crop-spraying and charter flying. DLH operates 11-14 services from Berlin to Belgrade, Bucharest, Budapest, Prague, Sofia and Tirana, while Il-18s operate between Berlin and Moscow. There is also an 11-14 all-freight service on the Berlin -Prague - Budapest - Bucharest - Sofia route. Head Office: Franzosische Strasse 53-56, Berlin, W8, German Democratic Republic. Fleet: three 11-18, at least 12 11-14, also Super Aero 45, Ld 60 Brigadyr, AN-2. Deutsche Lufthansa AG—DLH began internal operations on April 1, 1955, services to London on May 16 and to New York on June 8 of that year. The original DLH was founded on January 6, 1926, and its winged crest originated with Deutsche Luftreederei in 1919. The new Lufthansa operates internal services to nine German cities and international ser vices to 36 cities in Europe, North and South America, Middle and Far East and Africa. International routes go from Hamburg. Cologne, Munich, Frankfurt and Paris to New York, to Montreal and San Francisco, and to Chicago, to Rio de Janeiro, Monte video, to Buenos Aires and Santiago, to the Middle East as far as Teheran andDh ahran, and to the Far East as far as Tokyo via Bangkok and Hong Hong. DLH inaugurated a non-stop Frankfurt - Lagos jet service on March 4, 1962 (later to be extended (o Accra, subject to government approval), and plans to fly to Johannesburg via Khartoum, Nairobi and Salisbury in mid-May 1962. L. 1649A freighters now operate a non-stop Frankfurt - New York service. The airline has a 100 per cent holding in Condor-Flugdienst. Head Office: 1 Claudiusstrasse, Cologne. Executives: Hermann J. Abs, chairman of the board; Hans M. Bongers, Dipl. Ing. Gerhard Hoeltje, Wolfgang A. Kittel, Dipl. Ing. Hans Sussenguth. Capt R. Mayr, chief pilot. Employees: 12,000. Fleet: five Boeing 707-430, seven Boeing 720B-030, two L. 1649 A freighters, seven L.1049G, nine Viscount 814, nine Convair 440, three Safir (for crew training), nine Chipmunk (for crew training), two Twin Bonanza (for crew training). On order: two Boeing 707 (1963-64), 12 Boeing 727(1964-65). Deutsche Nah-Luftverkehr AG—see Air Lloyd. Deutsche Taxiflug GmbH—see Air Lloyd. Dirrecao de Exploraco dos Transportes Aereos—DETA was organized in 1936 by the Government of Mozambique as a division of the Department of Railways, Harbours and Airways. Domestic services are operated and there are routes to Durban, Johannesburg and Salisbury. Head Office: Lourenco Marques, Mozambique. Executives: H. A. Brazao de Freitas, director
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