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498 FLIGHT International, 2 April 1964 WORLD AIRLINE SURVEY . . . from Fairbanks and Anchorage to Nome andKotzebue in the north-west, while the Convair 880 "Golden Nugget" services link Seattle toFairbanks and Anchorage. The L.I649As are used for MATS contract work. Alaska isproviding technical and operational assistance to Air Guinee.Head Office: Seattle Tacoma International Airport, Washington, USA.Executives: Charles F. Willis, Jr, president and general manager; F. B. Lynott, executivevice-president; D. B. Bowman, secretary; LeRoy H. Peterson, vice-president services;Chester L. Miller, vice-president operations; L. W. Smith, director maintenance; R.Giersdorf, vice-president sales; E. L. Sherman, assistant vice-president industrial relationsand personnel. Employees: 329. Fleet: one Convair 880 Model 22M; twoConvair 340; two L.I649A leased from TWA. Alaska Coastal-Ellis Airlines operates a networkof domestic services based on Juneau and Ketchikan. Alaska Coastal Airlines wasformed in 1939 as a partnership by Alaska Air Transport, founded in 1935, and MarineAirways, founded in the following year. Alaska Coastal's Super Catalinas differfrom standard in being modified to CAB Transport Category requirements. Two 1,900h.p. Wright R-2600 Cyclones are fitted instead of Twin Wasps, improving cruising speed andsingle-engine performance. In place of the blister turrets, special Sun Domes are fitted togive passengers a picture window view of the scenery. Alaska Coastal merged in April 1962with Ellis Airlines and the merged carrier is known as Alaska Coastal-Ellis Airlines.Head Office: 2 Marine Way, Juneau, Alaska. Executives: S. B. Simmons, president; O. F.Benecke, vice-president administration and finance; H. S. Gruening, vice-president opera-tions. Employees: 260. Fleet: four Super Catalina, 15 Goose, threeCessna 180 seaplanes, one Cessna 185 seaplane. Alia-Royal Jordanian Airlines is the newnational airline of Jordan that succeeded Jordanian with effect from December 15, 1963.The Jordan Government has a 40 per cent holding, Jordanian (Jordan Airways) 35 percent, and public interests 25 per cent. The latter include Carlos and Alphonse Arida ofLebanese International Airways, from whom the DC-7s are leased. DC-7 services linkAmman to Jerusalem. Beirut, Cairo and Kuwait, and further points in the Middle Eastare to be served later. Convair 990 services into Europe are planned and the two Heraldswere obtained from the Royal Arab Air Force. Head Office: Mango Building, Hashemi Road,Amman, Jordan. Executive: V. Marroun, commercial manager.Fleet: DC-7, two Herald 200. On order: two Convair 990A. Alisarda is the name of art Italian carrierformed to provide internal services in Sardinia and services to the Italian mainland, as well asto the French Riviera and the Balearic islands. It was hoped to start operations with Beech 18son July 1, 1963 but approval was not forth- coming from the Italian Ministry of Transportand Civil Aviation. Head Office: Olbia, Sardinia. Alisud operated a seasonal service in the sum-mer of 1959 between Salerno and Ischia with flying-boats. This carrier later ceased scheduledoperations but resumed them on August 15, 1963 with a vehicle ferry service betweenNaples and Palermo using a Carvair leased from British United Air Ferries. Otherservices from Naples and Rome are planned. Head Office: Calata San Marco 13, Naples,Italy. Fleet: one Carvair leased. Alitalia was originally formed in 1946 as ajoint British-Italian venture with BEA holding 30 per cent of the original capital. Additional capital was called up in 1955 and BEAsold one-third of its investment to BOAC. In 1957 Alitalia was merged with LAI,taking over its routes on November 1 that year, the capital being increased from L4,500mto L10,000m and later to L25,O0Om. BOAC returned its share to BEA which then hada 6.75 per cent holding; this was bought by Alitalia in 1961. Alitalia operates a Euro-pean network, domestic services in Italy and routes to South, North, West and East Africa,Brazil, Uruguay, Argentina, Chile, Venezuela, Canada, the US, the Middle East, Pakistanand India. A service to Darwin and Sydney was inaugurated on June 16, 1961, and inMarch 1962 a service to Hong Kong and Tokyo was introduced via Teheran, Karachi,Bombay and Bangkok. Caravelle services started on May 25, 1960, from Rome to Lon-don, and DC-8 services to Canada and the USA in June 1960 and to South Africa inNovember. DC-7F all-cargo flights go from Rome, Milan and Shannon to New Yorkand to London. Head Office: 92 Viale Maresciallo Pilsudski,Rome, Italy. Executives: Count Dr N. Carandini, president;Gen S. A. Aldo Urbani, vice-president; Hon Enzo Giacchero, vice-president; Ing B. Velani,general manager; Dr D. Saracino, deputy general manager; Dr Paolo de Gregorio,administrative manager; Dr R. Cappelletti, commercial director; Ing G. Rimer, technicaldirector; Ing P. Venturing secretary-general; V. Reinero, operations director.Employees: 7,883. Fleet: 12 DC8, 18 Caravelle, 14 Viscount 785,two DC-7F, three DC-7C, one DC-6 leased to CAAC, four DC-3 leased to SAM. On order:three DC-8, three Caravelle, three American SST. Allegheny Airlines Inc was established in 1937as All-American Airways. The company pioneered "pick up" air mail services usingStinson Reliants with collection attachments, began normal scheduled passenger services in1949, and became Allegheny Airlines in 1953. Permanently certificated routes now extendfrom Detroit and Buffalo through Pennsyl- vania, New York, New Jersey, Rhode Island,Connecticut, Massachusetts, Maryland, Dela- ware District of Columbia, Michigan, Ohioand West Virginia. In October 1959 Allegheny introduced commuter services between Pitts-burg and Philadelphia, in which a 36 per cent rebate is available to passengers buying "noreservation" tickets. Commuter services have been very successful, and now extend toBoston and Providence, Washington and Hartford. In 1962 Allegheny started its owncar rental service at 23 airports. In May 1963 Allegheny started all-cargo services with aConvair 340 freighter. Head Office: Washington DC, USA.Executives: L. O. Barnes, president; Nelson B. Fry, Jr, executive vice-president; D. L.Miller, senior vice-president; Walter J. Short, senior vice-president finance and administra-tion; R. G. Dinning, vice-president flight and operations; E. I. Colodny, vice-president legalaffairs and economic research. Employees: 1,451. Fleet: 12 Convair 340, one Convair 340freighter, six Convair 440, five Martin 2-0-2, one Martin 2-0-2 freighter, 10 Martin 2-0-2A. All Nippon Airways was established in March1958 through the merger of Far Eastern Air- lines (a subsidiary of C. Itoh) and Japan Heli-copter. The company operates a domestic network from Osaka, Tokyo and Fukuoka tomany other points in Japan. Fujita Airlines, Naka Japan Airlines and Toa Airways weredue to merge with All Nippon in November 1963. A letter of intent for 20 NAMC YS-1 Ishas been signed. Head Office: Tokyo, Japan.Executives: K. Okazaki, president; S. Mitoro, board chairman. Fleet: eight Viscount 828, 14 F-27 Friend-ship, two Convair 440, two Convair 340, eight DC-3, 14 Bell 47. On order: nine F-27 Friend-ship 200, three Boeing 727. Aloha Airlines Inc (formerly Trans-PacificAirlines) was founded in June 1946 and began a passenger and cargo service in July of thatyear. The airline was awarded a five-year temporary certificate as a scheduled operatorin 1949, and the certificate was renewed for a second five-year period in 1954. In 1956 theCAB awarded the airline a permanent certi- ficate as a scheduled carrier. The airline has arecord of perfect safety since the beginning of its operations. In November 1958 the airlineofficially changed its name from Trans- Pacific Airlines Ltd to Aloha Airlines Inc, thelatter name more accurately describing the nature of the airline's inter-island operationsin Hawaii. On January 3, 1963, Aloha completed thephasing out of its DC-3 "Vistaliners," and became the second certificated US carrier tohave an all-turbine-powered fleet. Two ex- Austrian Viscount 745s were acquired a yearago, and later another ex-Northeast Viscount. Head Office: PO Box 3769, Honolulu Inter-national Airport, Honolulu, Hawaii. Executives: Hung Wo Ching, president; K. F.C. Char, executive vice-president; R. H. King, senior vice-president traffic and sales; J. M.Brown, vice-president operations; Robert J. Norris, vice-president finance and treasurer;O. McCraw, asst vice-president passenger service; C. H. Bowman, asst vice-presidentsales; H. C. Wong, secretary. Fleet: four Faircruld F.27, two Viscount 745,one Viscount 798. Alpar Flug- und Flugplatzgesellschaft AG is ataxi and charter operator that also undertakes Alpine flying with glacier landings, flyingtraining from ground formation up to instru- ment-flying and gliding, maintenance andoverhaul work. Head Office: Berne Airport, Switzerland.Executive: F. Moser, vice-president. Fleet: one Twin-Bonanza, one Bonanza, oneCessna 172, two Super Cubs with skis, five Piper Cubs, one Biicker Jungmann. Alpine Luft-transport AG—ALAG is a Swiss operator of charter and taxi services thatrecently started a regular service between Zurich and St Moritz, four trips a week in eachdirection being flown. Head Office: Winterthurerstrasse 28, Zurich,Switzerland. , Executive: Dr Dietrich Buhrle, president.Fleet: one Aero Commander, one Cessna 320, one Cessna 310, one M.S.760 Paris, onePilatus Porter. Altaire SRL undertakes air taxi services, crop-spraying and aerial advertising in Argentina, as well as maintenance and servicing.Head Office: Carlos Pellegrini 763, 3o Piso, Buenos Aires, Argentina.Executives: D. P. Aubone, president and technical director; E. C. Catala, vice-president,Fleet: ten Piper PA-18A Super Cub. American Airlines was founded in 1934 asdirect successor to American Airways which had come into existence in 1930, and earlierpredecessor companies dating back to 1926. The present-day organization is a vast under-taking and its present fleet numbers nearly 200 aircraft. One of the biggest carriers in the USand in the world, American has sponsored the design of the Douglas DC-3, and DC-7,Convair 240 and 990, and the Lockheed Electra. American's route network stretchesfrom coast to coast, into Canada (to Toronto) and south to Mexico (to Mexico City).Head Office: 633 Third Avenue, New York 17, NY.Executives: C. R. Smith, president; W. J. Hogan, executive vice-president, finance andplanning; G. A. Spater, executive vice-presi- dent and general counsel; C. W. Jacob, seniorvice-president and secretary; G. M. Sadler, vice-president and general manager; WilliamLittlewood, vice-president equipment reseacrh; F. J. Mullins, vice-president field activities;Willis Player, vice-president public relations. Employees: 23,000. Fleet: two Boeing 7O7-323C, 23 Boeing 707-123B, 22 Boeing 7O7-O23B, 19 Convair 990A, 24 E'.ectra, 28 DC-7, DC-7B, DC-7F, 12DC-6B, 31 DC-6, 11 Convair 240. On order: two Boeing 707-323C, 25 Boeing 727, fourConcord, six American SST, 25 BAC One- Eleven. American Flyers Airline Corp is a US non-scheduled and supplemental carrier formed in 1949 and awarded interim operating authorityin October 1962. American Flyers has now
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