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570 THE WORLD'S AIRLINES... 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 Atlantic services. These now link New York and Reykjavik to Glasgow, London, Amsterdam, Luxembourg, Hamburg, Copenhagen, Goth enburg, Stavanger, Oslo and Helsinki. The company trades under the name Icelandic Airlines—Loftleidir. Fares are below IATA economy rates, although the sectors east of Iceland have IATA-agreed fares. Head Office: PO Box 476, Reykjavik, Iceland. Executives: R. E. Delany, chairman; A. Eliasson, general manager; Sigurdur Helga- son, president. Employees: 320. Fleet: four DC-6B. Loide Aereo Nacional SA was founded on August 24, 1949, by amalgamation with Lineas Aereas Paulistas and Transportes Aereos Bandeirantes. Loide operates nearly 10,000 miles of routes in Brazil from Porto Alegre in the south to Macapa in the north and along the Amazon as far as Manaos. Many second-class services are flown. VASP recently acquired complete control of Loide and NAB. Head Office: Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. Executives: Col M. G. Jacques, president; Newton Lagares da Silva, technical director; Jose Bugarin Maloper, administrative director; Anilio Goncalves Moles, commercial director. Employees: 1,025. Fleet: four DC-6C, eight DC-4, 12 Curtiss C-46, one Vultee L-13A. Lloyd Aero Boliviano SA—LAB was founded by German immigrants on September 14,1925, and opened in that year a route between Cochabamba and Santa Cruz. Junkers F13s were used on these first services. The company was taken over as the Bolivian national airline in 1941 and Panagra was given a contract to administer the airline. The Government of Bolivia still holds most of the stock of LAB, but a 20 per cent minority is owned by Panagra. The airline operates a network of domestic services and also routes to Arica in Chile, Lima in Peru, Salta and Buenos Aires, Argentina, and Corumba, Brazil. Head Office: Cochabamba, Bolivia. Executives: Alvaro Perez del Castillo, presi dent; 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 small company operating internally within Colombia and to Miami. Head Office: Bogota, Colombia. Fleet: one DC-3, two C-46. Lloyd Aereo Paraguayo SA is a recently formed Paraguayan carrier that operates B-class services over the Asuncion - Curitiba - Sao Paulo - Rio de Janeiro route. Head Office: Calle Chile y Olivia, Edificio Vitoria, 1" Piso Oficinas 17-18, Asuncion, Paraguay. Fleet: Curtiss C-46. Lloyd Airlines Inc is a US non-scheduled carrier. An ex-Braniff L.049 Constellation belonging to Lloyd was seized on August 2, 1961 by the Bolivian authorities at Santa Cruz de la Sierra, Bolivia, for alleged smuggling while on a flight from Miami to Uruguay. Head Office: 4471 N.W. 36th Street, Miami, Florida. Lone Star Airlines is a recently formed intra state carrier that operated high-frequency services with ex-TWA Martins between Dallas and Houston until last summer, when it ceased scheduled operations. Head Office: Love Field, Dallas, Texas. Fleet: two Martin 4-0-4, three Martin 2-0-2. Los Angeles Air Service Inc is a US non-scheduled and supplemental carrier awarded a two-year operating certificate in January 1959. Head Office: Hawthorne Municipal Airport, Hawthorne, California, USA. Fleet: one DC-6B, one DC-6A. Los Angeles Airways Inc—LAA was incor porated on May 11, 1944. The company began a mail service circuit in the San Fernando Valley on October 1, 1947, and thereby became the first scheduled helicopter airline. A shuttle service was also established between the Los Angeles post office roof and the Inter national Airport. An air express-by-helicopter service was inaugurated in 1953 and passen ger services were begun in November 1954; these services now link 17 points with Los Angeles International Airport. Seven-passen ger S-55s are used on most flights, but are being replaced by turbine-powered S-61Ls. Head Office: Los Angeles, California, USA. Executives: C. M. Belinn, president; J. T. Kane, vice-president and treasurer; F. W. Milam, vice-president transportation; Martin J. Burke, secretary; R. L. Bromberger, flight operations manager; Robert P. Hubley, vice- president sales. Employees: 120. Fleet: two S-61L, five S-55, one S-51. On order: two S-61L (1962). LOT—Polskie Linie Lotnicze was formed by the Government in 1929 to take over the operations of the private companies Aerolot and Aero of Poznan. By the start of the war LOT had established itself with a modern fleet of L.10 Electras, Lockheed 14s and DC-2s. Part of this fleet was brought to England and served with BOAC. The airline flies domestic services linking Warsaw and some 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 North Atlantic service is also contemplated, possibly using aircraft leased from BOAC. Head Office: Warsaw Poland. Executives: J. Krzywicki aen?T_' director; A. Wojnowski, commercial director; R. Kury-janski, technical director. Fleet: Li-2,11-14, four Convair 240, three 11-18. Lufthansa—see Deutsche-Lufthansa AG. Lufttransport Unternehmen GmbH—LTU was founded in 1955 as Lufttransport Union, the present name being adopted in 1958 to avoid confusion with another company. LTU concentrates on i inclusive tours and freight flights but has also operated on behalf of various scheduled carriers. Head Office: 43 Graf Adolf Strasse, Dussel- dorf, W. Germany. Executives: C. Conle, chairman; E. Seibert, W. Sachsenberg, directors; E. von Manteuffel, commercial manager; H. Wittenberg, technical manager. Employees: 190. Fleet: one F.27 Freightship, one Bristol 170 Mk 21, two Viking, one Cessna 310, one A.35 Bonanza. Luxair, Socidte Anonyme Luxembourgeoise de Navigation Aerienne, originally known as Luxembourg Airlines, has been designated by the Luxembourg Government as the country's Sag carrier. It was due to start operations on March 31 On routes from Luxembourg to Paris, Nice, Frankfurt and Amsterdam using the second prototype Friendship leased from Fokker. Four flights a month to Johannesburg are to be operated later, probably in pool with Trek Airways and using an ex-Trek DC-4. The original Luxembourg Airlines ceased operations in 1958, and was provided with technical assistance and equipment initially by Scottish Aviation Ltd (as from 1947), and more recently by Seaboard and Western Airlines. Head Office: Luxembourg Airport, Luxem bourg. Fleet: one DC-4, one Friendship 100 leased from Fokker. On order: one Friendship 100. Macao Air Transport (Hong Kong) Ltd was formed in 1948 and now operates a Piaggio P.136-L-2 on a regular service between Hong Kong and Macao. FLIGHT International, 12 April 1962 Head Office: Hong Kong Airport, Kowloon. Hong Kong. Executives: R. H. Lobo, general manager; K. C. Yuen, traffic manager. Fleet: one Piaggio P.136-L-2. Mackey Airlines Inc, now operating scheduled passenger services from Florida to the Baha mas, was incorporated as Mackey Air Trans port in 1946. Scheduled operations were approved in 1952 and inaugurated on Januarv 2, 1953. Head Office: Fort Lauderdale, Florida, USA. Executives: J. C. Mackey, president; John B. Popham, executive vice-president, secretary and treasurer; Robert C. Tischler, vice- president operations; H. H. Johnson, vice-president sales. Employees: 148. Fleet: two DC-3, three DC-4, two DC-6. Mac.Robertson Miller Airlines Ltd—MMA began operations on October 1, 1955, follow ing the merger of Mac.Robertson Miller Aviation Co (Pty) Ltd and Airlines (WA) Ltd. The former, a successor to the Commercial Aviation Co founded by Capt H. C. Miller shortly after the 1914 war, started operations on October 3, 1934, with a D.H.84 Dragon service between Perth and Daly Waters. Airlines (WA) Ltd began operations between Perth and Wiluna via Kalgoorlie in 1935, and the two companies built up extensive experi ence in airline operation throughout the length of the west coast of Australia and its allied inland districts. It is over this entire area that MMA operates scheduled services. MMA is also responsible for Air Beef Pty Ltd in which air transport makes possible a reduction of two years and more in the marketable age of beef, thus increasing the meat productivity of the central Kimberley area. Nearly 2im pounds of meat, edible offal and hides were flown between the Glenroy abbatoirs and Derby during the 1961 season. On December 28, 1959, MMA commenced "Jetstream" services with a Friendship originally intended for TAA; the purchase of a second Friendship is contemplated. Head Office: 194 St George^s Terrace, Perth, Western Australia. Executives: R. F. Rushton, chairman; C. N. Kleinig, managing director; H. C. Miller, regional director; E. C. Gare, secretary; K. Cohen, operations manager. Employees: 415. Fleet: one F.27/2 Friendship, six DC-3, one Dove, one Anson. McMurray Air Service Ltd has since 1947 operated charter services in the Canadian prairie provinces. Head Office: Uranium City, Saskatoon, Cana da. Executives: H. Burry, president; R. Burry, vice-president. Fleet: three Cessna 180, one Beaver, two Otter, two Norseman, one Beech 18 floatplane, one Beech D-18S landplane. Madair is the name of the new Madagascar) flag carrier that on January 1 took over from Air France and Air Madagascar domestic services operated by these two airlines to 58 points in Madagascar. A once-weekly DC-7C service on the Tananarive - Djibouti - Nice - Paris route is to be started, using a DC-7C leased from TAI. Formed by Air France and Air Madagascar, with (respectively) 44 per cent and 36 per cent holdings, Madair is owned 20 per cent by the Madagascan Govern ment. Madair's 1962 target is to carry 110,000 passengers, 10,000 tonnes of freight and 650 tonnes of mail. Head Office: Tananarive, Madagascar. Fleet: one DC-7C (leased from TAI), two DC-4, eight DC-3. Madang Air Services Ltd—see Ansett-Man-dated Airlines Ltd. Madras Presidency Airways (Private) Ltd operates charter services from Madras. Head Office: Madras, India. Fleet: two Rapide, one Argus. Malayan Airways Ltd, founded in 1947, is associated with BOAC and Qantas who are
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