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f LIGHT International, 2 April 1964 WORLD AIRLINE SURVEY . . . Head Office: Kingsford Smith Airport,Mascot, NSW, Australia. Executives: R. M. Ansett, chairman; Capt S.C. Middlemiss, general manager; K. N. M. Hillyar, secretary; Capt C. C. Henry, opera-lions manager; J. Buchanan, commercial manager; P. O'Neill, sales manager.Employees: 192. Fleet: one DC-4, three F.27A Friendship,three standard DC-3, one "Viewmaster" DC-3, one aerial survey DC-3, one Sandring-ham. Airlines of New Zealand Ltd, also known asSouth Pacific Airlines of New Zealand Ltd, •was formed in 1960 by pilots of NZNAC;Ansett Transport Industries has secured a minority holding in it. Airlines of New Zea-land flies in direct competition with NZNAC over a network linking Auckland to 15 othertowns in New Zealand, but offers fares slightly lower than NZNAC's. Bead Office: 40 Anzac Avenue, Auckland,New Zealand. Executives: J. F. Johnston, chairman; CaptR. D. Daniell, general manager; Capt R. A. L. Anderson, assistant general manager (fly-ing). Employees: 56.Fleet: three "Viewmaster" DC-3. Airlines of South Australia is the name nowadopted by Guinea Airways Ltd which operates services radiating from Adelaide topoints in South Australia, New South Wales and Victoria. Services are also operated to theWoomera missile range. Originally formed in 1927 to provide air transport to the goldfieldsjust discovered in New Guinea, after 1945 the company's operations centred on Adelaide. In 1959 Guinea Holdings, the holding com-pany for Guinaa Airways and Guinea Invest- ments Ltd was taken over by Ansett TransportIndustries Ltd. Head Office: Adelaide Airport, Adelaide,South Australia. Executives: L. Connelly, general manager;C. A. Window, secretary; Capt J. A. Still, operations manager.Employees: 66. Fleet: one Convair 440, four DC-3, one PiaggioP.166B Portofino. Air Links Ltd started operations in 1959 withan ex-Aer Lingus DC-3 and has since under- taken a variety of charter work, including•contract flying in Europe, Africa and New Zealand. In September 1962 three 82-passenger Hermes were acquired, one of "which is being used for IT and general charterwork. An Argonaut has been acquired from Flying Enterprise, and went into service onMarch I. Head Office: Gatwick Airport, Horley, Surrey.Executives: S. Wilson and M. Wilson, •directors; A. J. Stocks, general manager;Capt C. M. de Bounevialle, operations man- ager and chief pilot.Fleet: one Argonaut, one H.P.81 Hermes. Air Lloyd was formed in December 1961 bythe merger of two German taxi and charter operators, Deutsche Nah-Luftverkehr AGof Gummersbach, founded in 1959, and Deutsche Taxiflug GmbH of Mannheim,operating since 1958. The resulting concern was known initially as Air Lloyd DeutscheNah-Luftverkehrs AG. Air Ljoyd has con- tinued taxi, joy-riding, sight-seeing and surveyflights as well as holiday flights to North German resorts. Head Office: Hindenburgstrass 17, Gummers-bach, Germany. Fleet: seven Dornier Do 28, three PiaggioP. 166, eight Dornier Do 27, two Super Cub, one Bolkow F207, one Voyager, one BeechTravel Air, one Agusta-Bell 47G-2. Air Madagascar — previously known asMadair, Socicte Nationale Malgache de Transports Aeriens—is the name of theMadagascan flag carrier that on January 1, 1962 took over from Air France and theoriginal Air Madagascar domestic services operated by these two airlines to 58 points inMadagascar. A once-weekly service on the Tananarive - Djibouti - Marseilles - Paris routewas started, using a DC-7C and later a DC-6B leased from TA1, and now a Boeing707 leased from Air France. 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) isowned 20 per cent by the Madagascan Govern- ment. Head Office: Tananarive, Madagascar.Fleet: two DC-4, six DC-3, four Rapide, one Beech D-18S, one Broussard. Air Malawi is the newly formed Nyasalandnational airline created as a subsidiary of Central African Airways Corporation afterthe break-up of the Federation of Rhodesia- Nyasaland in 1963. Air Malawi's chairmanand board will be appointed by the parent CAA. DC-3s and Beavers are used, chieflyon domestic routes, and the DC-3s will be leased back for operation by CAA, who willprovide technical assistance and staff. Fleet: two DC-3, three Beaver. Air Mali was formed in 1961 as the flagcarrier of the Mali Republic, which consists of Senegal and the French Sudan, Aeroflot hassupplied technical and commercial assistance to Air Mali, and the British Government haspresented it with three ex-BEA DC-3s. Air Mali operates services to Paris via Rabat andMarseilles with II-18s, while domestic services and regional services to Guinea, Niger and theIvory Coast are operated by Il-14s and DC-3s. An-2 biplanes operate a further network ofdomestic services linking 20 centres to Bamako. Head Office: PO Box 27A, Bamako, Republicof Man. Fleet: three 11-18, three Avia 14-32A, twoAntonov An-2, three DC-3, five Aero 145. Air Mauritanie was formed by Governmentdecree in September 1962 to operate domestic services in the former French colony. FromNouakchott 16 domestic points are served and there is a weekly service from Nouakchott toBamako and from Nouakchott to Las Palmas via Port Etienne. Operations started with aDC-3 and crew leased from the Spanish inde- pendent Spantax; two DC-3s are currentlyleased from Spantax and the third from the Societe des Mines de Fer de Mauritanie(Miferma). Head Office: Nouakchott Airport, Mauritania.Executive: Abdoul Aziz, director-general. Fleet: one DC-4, three DC-3 leased. Ainnont Helicopter Airways intends to operatehelicopter services between Dorval airport and the downtown area of Montreal. Airmont is awholly-owned subsidiary of the Earl Corpora- tion.Head Office: Montreal, Canada. Airnauric started charter operations in Europein 1958, and has since operated scheduled services for Air Inter and Air France. The company concentrates on freight charters andinclusive tour flights, and its operations base is at Nice. Air France has recently acquired amajority shareholding in Airnautic. Head Office: 156 Boulevard Hausmann, Paris.Executive: Jacques Dewez, director. Fleet: one Boeing 307 Stratoliner, threeDC-6C, four Viking, one DC-2. Air Navigation & Trading Co Ltd was estab-lished in 1946 and undertakes general and contract charter work, aerial work, pilottraining and aeronautical engineering. The company acts as UK and Eire concessionariesfor the Aermacchi-Lockheed AL-60. Head Office: Squires Gate Airport, Blackpool.Executives: H. Bateson, G. C. S. Whyham, R. L. Whyham, directors; B. L. Wall, chiefinspector; G. L. Shutt, secretary; W. S. Bateson, chief instructor; E. Hustwayte,chief check pilot. Fleet: one Aero Commander, one HuntingPembroke, two DHA-3 Drover, one D.H.84 Dragon, three Rapide, one Aefmacchi-Lock-heed AL-60, one Alpha, three Chipmunks and other light aircraft. Air Oasis operates charter and taxi services inthe Sahara region with seven single-engined aircraft. Air Oasis was nationalized in 1963.Head Office: PO Box 68, Laghouat, Algeria. Executive: Jacques Pierchon. 497 Air-Oasis, not to be confused with the Algerianoperator with a similar name, is a US non- scheduled carrier operating from California.Head Office: 3353 Lakewood Boulevard, Long Beach 8, California.Employees: 104. Fleet: "DC-3. 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 1b, one Navion. Air Rhodesia is the new Southern Rhodesiannational airline formed as a subsidiary of Central African Airways Corporation afterthe break-up of the Federation of Rhodesia- Nyasaland in 1963. Air Rhodesia's chairmanand board will be appointed by the parent CAA. DC-3s will be used, chiefly on domesticroutes, and will be leased back for operation by CAA, who will provide technical assistanceand staff. Head Office: Salisbury Airport, SouthernRhodesia. Fleet: DC-3. Air Senegal, also known as Compagnie Sene-galaise de Transports Aeriens, is a privately owned carrier formed recently to operatedomestic passenger and freight services within the republic of Senegal from the capital,Dakar. Tourist flights to Las Palmas in the Canary Islands are planned for the future. ARapide, an Apache and two Jodels are used for charter work, while aerial agriculture isundertaken by a Pawnee and a Super Cub. Air Senegal started operations over a year agowith a Twin Pioneer leased from Sierra Leone Airways, but this has now been returned. AirSenegal is associated with Societe Anonyme Ardic, aerial work and aerial survey operatorsand Piper distributors for Senegal and other African territories. Head Office: Yoff Airport, Dakar, Senegal.Fleet: two DC-3, two Dove, one Apache, one Rapide, one Pawnee 235, one Super Cub, oneJodel D.140, one Jodel D.1050. Air St Pierre is a French-Canadian carrier that began operations in 1961 of a daily servicebetween 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 previouslyoperated by Air France. The Vietnamese Government holds 75 per cent of the stock andAir France holds 25 per cent. Air Vietnam flies domestic services and to Laos, Cambodia,Hong Kong and Bangkok. Head Office: 116 Boulevard Nguyen-Hue,Saigon, Vietnam. Executives: N. Van Khai, president; M.Nguyen Tan Trung, managing director. Employees: 863.Fleet: one DC-6B, one DC-6, five DC-3, one DC-4, one Cessna 310, two Cessna 185. Airways (India) is entirely engaged on non-scheduled charter flying. Frequent services are operated to the Andaman Islands andcharter flights to Assam and North Bengal are undertaken. Head Office: 31 Chittaranjan Avenue, Calcutta12. Executives: K. K. Roy, director; S. G.Rangaswamy, manager. Employees: 50.Fleet: three DC-3, one Catalina. AISAA—see Aeroplan Integracion de Servicios Aereos Argentinos. ALA—see Aerotransportes Litora Argentine Alaska Airlines adopted its present title in1944, having been founded in 1937 as Star Air Lines Inc to take over Star Air Service,which had been doing charter work for several years. The latter had acquired McGee Airways,which was founded in 1932. In 1942 and 1943 Star Air Lines took over Pollack AirLines, Lavery Airways and Mirow Air Service. Alaska Airlines has a route network stretching
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