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commuter services on routes from Pittsburgh Allegheny Airlines 440s operate "no reservation" WORLD AIRLINE SURVEY... be in parallel with CSA's existing 11-18 services from Bamako to Prague, and then on to Moscow. Other international services are at present operated to Freetown, Monrovia and Dakar. Bead Office: Conakry, Guinea. Fleet: three 11-18, seven Avia 14 (including one leased from CSA), two Aero 145, one heli copter. Air Haiti International SA is a Haitian carrier formed in March 1961 to operate between Haiti and New York, San Juan (Puerto Rico) and beyond to points in the British West Indies as the designated Haitian flag carrier. It is not known whether this company is still active. Head Office: Port-au-Prince, Haiti. Air-India was formed as a limited company in June 1948 with Air-India Ltd holding 51 per cent of the shares and the Government of India 49 per cent. On August 1, 1953, by the provisions of the Air Corporations Act, 1953, Air-India became a wholly State-owned Cor poration with the continuing responsibility of operating, as the national flag carrier, all long-haul international air services. The company began operating a weekly Bombay - Cairo - Geneva - London service in June 1948. Bombay - London flights serve Delhi, Bahrain, Cairo, Beirut, Prague, Rome, Geneva, Frankfurt and Paris, and go on to New York. Bombay - Tokyo flights serve Delhi, Calcutta, Bangkok and Hong Kong. There is a Bombay - Madras - Singapore - Djakarta service, and a similar service via Bangkok and Singapore continues on to Perth and Sydney. Bombay is linked to Nairobi via Aden and there is a once-weekly service to Moscow via Delhi. There is also a service from Bombay to Kuwait via Karachi and Bahrain. A Comet 4 chartered from BOAC is operating the Kuwait service and certain services through Madras. Air-India now operates a daily service for IAC on the Bombay - New Delhi route. Head Office: Bombay, India. Executives: J. R. D. Tata, chairman; B. R. Patel, vice-chairman and general manager; S. K. Kooka, commercial director; N. J. Pavri, financial controller; K. K. Unni. assistant general manager; Capt K. Vishva- nath, operations manager; K. G. Appus- wamy, engineering manager; A. S. Banavali- kar, personnel manager; R. N. Gundil, secre tary. Employees: 5,802. Fleet: six Boeing 707-437. On order; one Boeing 707-320B. 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 and UAT. Air France and French Railways (SNCF) each have a 24.95 per cent interest in Air Inter, while UAT, TAI, Aigle Azur and 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 operated. In I960, activities were resumed on July 1 using aircraft chartered from Air France, TAI and Airnautic, and linking Paris to Toulouse, Pau, Lille, Lyons, Nice, Dinard, Quimper, La Baule, Biarritz and Lourdes. The route network this year includes Lille, Brest, Lorient, Nantes, Bordeaux, Pau, Lourdes, Toulouse, Nimes, Marseilles, Nice, Clermont-Ferrand, Lyons, Strasbourg, Paris (in summer Dinard, Quimper, La Baule, Biarritz, Perpignan, Vichy). Air Inter has been operating two Nord 260s on route- proving trials. Head Office: 12 rue de Castiglione. Paris ler. Executives: Admiral P. Hebrard, president- director general; P. Marland, secretary-general; J. Arnaud. technical director; G. Brandeis, commercial director; J. Margot-Noblemaire, directeur des programmes. Employees: 180. Fleet: seven Viscount 708 owned, two Viking leased from Airnautic. Air Jamaica International is a recently formed Jamaican carrier that plans to operate group charter flights and to start a freight service later. Two Constellations are to be acquired, and the company has US financial backing. Head Office: Montego Bay, Jamaica. Executive: Robert Thompson, president. Fleet: two Constellation. 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 Convair 440, two DC-3. Air Korea is a recently-formed carrier which started flying with ex-Western Airlines Convair 240s. Domestic services within Korea were operated between April and July 20, 1961 but operations then ceased. Head Office: Seoul. South Korea. Fleer: two Convair 240. Air Liban was founded in 1945 as Compagnie Generate de Transport and took its present title in 1951. The stock is divided equally be tween Air France and Lebanese private inter ests. The company operates services between Beirut, Rome and Paris, Beirut and Khar toum, Kano, Lagos, 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 December 1960. Air Liban may merge shortly with MEA. Head Office: Immeuble Esseily, Place Riad Solh, Beirut, Lebanon. Executives: Antoine Sehnaoui, president; Jean Peyrondet, commercial director. Employees: 529. Fleet: one DC-6C, one DC-6, one Caravelle 1A, three DC-3. Air Links Ltd started operations in 1959 with an ex-Aer Lingus DC-3 and has since under taken a variety of charter work, including contract flying in Europe, Africa and New Zealand. The capital was recently increased to £50,000 fully paid up. Last September three 82-passenger Hermes were acquired, two of which are being used for IT and general charter work. Head Office: Gatwick Airport, Horley, Surrey. Executives: S. Wilson and M. Wilson, directors; A.J. Stocks, general manager; Capt C. M. de Bounevialle, operations manager and chief pilot. Fleet: two H.P.81 Hermes. 510 FLIGHT International, 11 April 1963 Air Lloyd AG was formed in December 196! by the merger of two German taxi and charter operators, Deutsche Nah-Luftverkehr Aci of Gummersbach, founded in 1959, and Deutsche Taxiflug GmbH of Mannheim, operating since 1958. The resulting concern was known initially as Air Lloyd Deutsche Nah-Luftverkehrs AG. Air Lloyd has con tinued taxi, joy-riding, sight-seeing and survey flights but will eventually sell its singK - engined aircraft and concentrate on twin- engined types. Head Office: Hindenburgstrasse 17, Gummers- bach, Germany. Fleet: eight Dornier Do 28, three Piaggio P. 166, one Pilatus Porter, 10 Dornier Do 2". two Super Cub, one BSlkow F207. Air Madagascar—until recently known as Madair, Societe Nationale Malgache de Transports Aeriens—is the name of the Madagascan flag carrier that on January 1. 1962 took over from Air France and the original Air Madagascar domestic services operated by these two airlines to 58 points in Madagascar. A once-weekly service on the Tananarive - Djibouti - Nice - Paris route was started, using a DC-7C originally and now a DC-6B leased from TAI. Formed by Air France and the original Air Madagascar, with (respectively) 44 per cent and 36 per cent holdings, Madair (as it was first known) is owned 20 per cent by the Madagascan Govern ment. Head Office: Tananarive, Madagascar. Fleet: two DC-4, eight DC-3. Air Mali was formed in 1961 as the flag carrier of the Mali Republic, which consist-. of Senegal and the French Sudan. Aeroflot has supplied technical and commercial assistance to Air Mali, and the British Government has presented it with three ex-BEA DC-3s. Air Mali operates a once-weekly Bamako - Rabat - Paris service with Il-18s, while domestic services and regional services to Guinea. Niger and the Ivory Coast are operated by II-14s and DC-3s. An-2 biplanes operate a further network of domestic services linking 20 centres to Bamako. Head Office: PO Box 27A, Bamako, Republic of Mali. Fleet: three 11-18, three 11-14, two Antonov An-2, three DC-3, five Aero 145. Air Mauritania was formed by Government decree in September 1962 to operate domestic services in the former French colony. A DC-.' and crew was leased from the Spanish inde pendent Spantax but British United may also provide technical assistance and equipment. Head Office: Nouakchott Airport, Mauri tania. Executives: X. Bcrbinau, director; P. Valette. chief pilot. Fleet: one DC-3 leased from Spantax, one Jodel D.140 Mousquetaire, one Jodel DR.1050. Air Navigation & Trading Co Ltd was estab lished in 1946 and undertakes general and contract charter work, aerial work, pilot training and aeronautical engineering. The company acts as UK and Eire concessionaries for the Lockheed LASA60 Santa Maria. Head Office: Squires Gate Airport, Blackpool. Executives: H. Bateson, G. C. S. Whyham. R. L. Whyham, directors; B. L. Wall, chief inspector; G. L. Shutt, secretary; W. S. Bateson, chief instructor; E. Hustwayte. chief check pilot. Fleet: two Marathon, one Hunting Pembroke, two DHA-3 Drover, one D.H.84 Dragon, three Rapide, one Lockheed LASA60 Santa Maria, one Alpha, three Chipmunks and other light aircraft. Air Oasis operates charter and taxi services in the Sahara region with seven single-engined and one twin-engined aircraft. Head Office: PO Box 68, Laghouat, Organisa tion Commune des Regions Sahariennes. Executive: Jacques Pierchon. Air Paris, formerly known as Air Orly, oper ates taxi services on demand from Orly and le Bourget. Head Office: 7 Rue du Delta, Paris 9e. Executive: Pierre Frenkel, director. Fleet: one Heron lb, one Navion.
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