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FLIGHT International, II April 1963 527 WORLD AIRLINE SURVEY ... Intercontinental US Inc is an American-registered charter operator formed in New York early in 1960 to engage in world-wide charter work. It has a European base at Luxembourg Airport and is associated with Interocean Airways SA, who operate Inter- continental's two Carvairs in the Congo on charter to the United Nations. Intercontinen tal began operations in 1960 with two DC-4s that were later sold to Interocean. Head Office: 201 West 72nd Street, New York 23, New York, and 4 Rue Marche-Aux- Herbes, Luxembourg. Executive: Benjamin B. Peck, president. Fleet: two L.1049H Super Constellation, one L.1049G, two Carvair. Interflug GmbH is the second East German airline and was formed on September 18, 1958, to specialize in international travel and services from the German Democratic Repub lic to West Germany and Copenhagen. The title was the result of a ruling by the Inter national Court of Justice at The Hague to prevent confusion with the Deutsche Lufthansa of West Germany. Interflug is run jointly by the East German Lufthansa and the Deutsche Reiseburos (German State Travel Agency). The only scheduled service operated at present is between Berlin, Budapest and Belgrade, with the East German Lufthansa, operating in parallel over the same route but this service has now been suspended. Head Office: Zentralflughafen Berlin-Schone-feld, German Democratic Republic. Executives: Arthur Pieck, director-general: Karl Heiland, director. Fleet: two 11-18, seven 11-14. Interior Enterprises Inc operates charter services in Alaska. Head Office: Box 438, Fairbanks, Alaska. Executives: J. S. Magoffin, president; D. R. Magoffin, executive vice-president. Fleet: three C-46. three DC-3, six Cessna 180. three Norseman, 11 others. International Air Freighters is the name of a Canadian non-scheduled operator. Head Office: Edmonton, Alberta. Fleet: three Canadair North Star. Interocean Airways SA is a charter operator registered in Luxembourg, and offering charter services w;th 73-seat DC-4s convertible to freighters. Intercontinental's two Carvairs are operated in the Congo on charter to the United Nations. Head Office: Luxembourg Airport. Luxem bourg. Executive: Henry Pransky, managing director. Fleet: two DC-4 leased, seven DC-4 owned. Interstate Airmotive Inc is a US fixed base operator and Cessna agent that is also licensed to offer charter services with single- and multi engined aircraft, including DC-3s. Head Office: Lambert Field, St Louis, Mis souri. Executives: John Logsdon, President; Bob Donovan, vice-president. Fleet: DC-3. Iranian Airways Co—Iranair was founded as a private company in 1944 and began full scale scheduled operations in May 1946. Operations have steadily increased and Iranair routes now extend across the Middle East from Karachi and Bombay to Baghdad. Domestic services are operated in Iran and the airline flies regulai services to Pakistan, Afghanistan, Iraq, Kuwait, Saudi Arabia and Qatar. Iranair and Persian Air Services merged in the spring of 1962 to form Iran National Airlines Corpor ation, but Iranair continues to operate and to advertise under its former name. Head Office: Avenue Saadi, Teheran, Iran. Executives: Reza Afshar, chairman and man aging director; Houshang Afshar, assistant managing director; John Waterman, oper ations director; R. Semnad, director of traffic and sales; Ahmed Majidi, member of the board of directors and financial director; K. Murray, maintenance manager. Fleet: one DC-6B, two DC-6. three Viscount 782, six DC-3. Iraqi Airways was founded in 1945 as a sub sidiary of the Government-owned Iraqi State Railways. The airline left Iraqi Railways and became a separate company on April 1. 1960. BOAC supplies certain technical staff and assistance as required. Viscounts operate frequent services from Baghdad to Bahrein. Amman, Basra, Beirut, Damascus. Cairo and Teheran and a twice-weekly service to London, via Istanbul and Belgrade, Prague or Vienna. Viscount services are also operated to Mosul and Kirkuk. There is also a once- fortnightly service to Karachi and Delhi. Head Office: Baghdad, Iraq. Executives: Col Nasser Aljanbi, director; Kana'an el Askari, manager; T. D. Walters, technical adviser; C. H. Robinson, chief engineer. Fleet: four Viscount, three Viking, one Dove. On order: two Boeing 720B. Island Airlines, until recently known as Sky Tours Inc, claims to operate the shortest route network of any scheduled airline in the USA. Daily flights are operated from Port Clinton. Ohio, over Lake Erie to a group of four of the Bass Islands a few miles away, and to Peele Island in Canadian waters—a route just 25 miles long. Island Airlines was founded in 1930 and carries some 35,000 passengers a year. Head Office: Port Clinton, Ohio. Fleet: two Ford 5-AT-B Trimotor, one Boeing 247D, Cessnas. Island Airlines is a new company formed in Hawaii in 1962 to operate low-fare services in the Hawaiian Islands with 80-passenger DC-4s. Operations have not yet started. Head Office: Honolulu, Hawaii. Itavia—see page 506. Jamaica Air Services was formed last year to operate daily domestic services within Jamaica between Montego Bay, Ocho Rios, Port Antonio and Kingston using DC-3s leased from a Miami company. BWIA took a 49 per cent holding in Jamaica Air Services and is to provide operational, technical and commer cial assistance but it is reported that Caribair may acquire a holding in the airline. Opera tions were due to begin on January 15. Fleet: two DC-3 leased. Jamair Co Pvt Ltd is an Indian carrier that operates non-scheduled freight and charter flights. Jamair's DC-3s have flown in support of last winter's military operations on the Indo-Chinese border. Head Office: 42 Chowringhee Road, Calcutta. Executive: C. T. Quin, managing director. Fleet: DC-3. Japan Air Lines Co Ltd—JAL (Nihon Koku Kabushiki Kaisha) is successor to the original Japan Air Lines founded by private interests, and which commenced operation in October 1951 of domestic services using three Martin 2-0-2s and one DC-4 which, together with crews, were leased from Northwest Airlines. On October 1, 1953, the new company came into being with the Government holding 50 per cent of the stock. Maintenance of JAL's fleet is performed by JAMCO, the Japan Aircraft Maintenance Co, in which JAL has a 57 per cent holding. JAL began international operations in Feburary 1954 between Tokyo, Honolulu and San Francisco, and between Tokyo and Okinawa. The Tokyo - Okinawa service was extended to Hong Kong in February 1955, to Bangkok in October 1956 and to Singapore in May 1958. In May 1959, service between Tokyo and Los Angeles via Honolulu commenced, and in July 1959, Tokyo - Seattle services by the Great Circle route. In February 1960 an agreement was reached with Air France for a joint JAL/Air France service on the Polar route from Tokyo to Europe. In June 1961 JAL inaugurated its own DC-8 jet trans-Polar service to Europe. At the same time a JAL/Air France pool agree ment on the Polar route came into effect to replace the joint operation. On October 4, 1962 JAL inaugurated Convair 880M services from Tokio to London via India and the Middle East. JAL has plans to extend its trans-Pacific routes to New York and on to London. A shuttle service between Tokyo and Osaka is to be operated in pool with All Nippon. Head Office: Tokyo. Japan. Executives: S. Matsuo, president: K. Ishikawa, executive vice-president; Y. Takagi, managing director and vice-president, sales. Employees: about 4,000. Fleet: six DC-8, three DC-7C. one DC-7CF, five Convair 880M. five DC-6B, two DC-6A, eight DC-4. On order: one DC-8. three Con vair 880M. On option: five NAMC YS-11. Japan Air Service Inc operates short internal feeder services in Japan, and also sightseeing flights. Fleet: four Heron IB, two Dove, five Cessna. Japan Middle-Range Air Transport Co was formed last year to operate scheduled heli copter services between the major Japanese cities. The initial paid-up capital is SI3.9m, and it is not yet known what equipment will be used. Operations have not yet started. Johnson Flying Service Inc is a fixed-base operator and supplemental carrier in Montana headed by Bob Johnson, a pioneer in training "smoke jumpers" for forest fire control. Ford Trimotors are used for aerial forest fire con trol work for the US Forest Service. Other activities of Johnson Flying Service include the operation of a flying training school, charter flights, ambulance, crop spraying and range seeding services, oil exploration and snow measurement surveys. A CAA-certificated supplemental service is also operated. Head Office: Missoula, Montana. Executive: Bob Johnson, president. Fleet: two C-46, two DC-3. one DC-2, three Ford Trimotor, two Beech 18, four Beech AT-11, five Travel Air, four Bell 47, about 20 other aircraft. Jordanian (Jordan Airways) is a national airline set up by the Jordanian Government in place of Air Jordan, Arab Airways (Jeru salem) Ltd, Jordan International Airlines and Jordan National Airways, all of whose operat ing licences were cancelled on September 13, 1961. MEA has a 35 per cent interest in Jordanian, and provides it with technical assistance and equipment; the Jordan Govern ment has a 25 per cent interest and Jordan nationals 40 per cent. Jordan Airways runs services in place of Air Jordan, and its direc tors are all ex-members of the board of Jordan National Airways, which was formed on June 21, 1961 and never started operation*. As from September 1, 1961 MEA handled all Jordanian's commercial and technical opera tions, but on September 29 the airline started operating on its own account with equipment purchased from MEA. Routes now extend from Amman and Jerusalem to Damascus. Beirut, Cairo, Kuwait, Doha and Jeddah. Head Office: Unrwa Building. Amman, Jordan. Executives: Mohamad Ali Bdeir, acting general manager; Soubhi Jabbour, commer cial manager; Erturul Irfan, ground operations manager; Yusuf Shami, chief accountant; Jamal Imam, manager—Jerusalem; Emile Farkouh, sales manager—Amman. Employees: 100. Fleet: two Viscount 754. one DC-3. Jugoslovenski Aerotransport — JAT was founded in 1947 and is completely state- owned. Domestic services are operated as well as routes to Athens, Beirut, Cairo, Frankfurt, Munich, Paris, London, Vienna, Rome, Tirana, Zagreb and Zurich. Head Office: PO Box 749, Belgrade, Jugo slavia. Executives: M. Simovic, general director; M. Rakic, traffic director; R. Radojeyic, finance director; D. Mandic, technical director; G. Vojvodic, commercial director. Employees: 1,338, Fleet: 12 DC-3, one Convair 340, five Convair 440, six Ilyushin 14, one DC-6B, two Cara- velle 6. On order: one Caravelle 6. Kalinga Air Lines (Private) Ltd was formed in 1947 but suspended operations when India's domestic air services were nationalized in
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