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502 FLIGHT International, 2 April 1964 WORLD AIRLINE SURVEY . . . York, Boston, Washington, Detroit, Chicagoand Miami, also between Manchester, Glas- gow and New York. BOAC-Cunard alsooperates from London to Bermuda, Nassau, Jamaica, Barbados, and Trinidad as well asto.Lima, Caracas and Bogota. Services are also provided from New York to Bermuda, Nassau,Jamaica as well as to Antigua, Barbados and Port of Spain on charter to BWIA.Executives: Sir Giles Guthrie, chairman; Sir John Brocklebank, deputy chairman; RossStainton. managing director; Keith Granville, G. H. C. Lee, R. J. Lockett, R. H. Senior,R. F. Taylor, directors. Fleet: eleven Boeing 707. Bonanza Air Lines was established in 1945and began services between Las Vegas and Reno on August 5, 1946. With 17 years ofexperience the company is now operating over 2,100 miles of routes in Nevada,Arizona, Utah and California. F-27A "Silver Dart" services began on March 29, 1959 andare now operated to 20 cities, the DC-3s having been phased out. Bonanza was thefirst US certificated carrier to operate an all- turbine fleet. In 1961 Bonanza rose from 10thplace to 2nd place in passenger load factor among the 13 local service airlines, and in1962 achieved 1st place. Package tours are offered, notably to the Grand Canyon area.Bonanza now offers a variety of excursion fares from every point on its routes, as well asthe "Bonanzaland" area-fare tariff which allows unlimited, unrestricted transport overBonanza's routes at a cost of $90 for a two- week period or $160 for a four-week period.Head Office: Box 391, Las Vegas, Nevada. Executives: Edmund Converse, president andchairman; G. Robert Henry, executive vice- president and director; M. W. Reynolds, vice-president operations; R. J. Sherer, vice- president finance; L. Decker, vice-presidenttraffic and sales; John D. Lindsay, vice- president advertising and publicity; ArthurM. Taylor, general counsel and secretary. Employees: 711. Fleet: 13 Fairchild F.27A. On order: threeDouglas DC-9. Borneo Airways was formed in March 1958and has as its main shareholders (with a 51 per cent holding) the Governments of the States ofSarawak and Sabah of Malaysia and the State of Brunei. BOAC and Malaysian AirwaysLimited respectively have holdings of 42.33 per cent and 6.66 per cent. Internal servicesare operated throughout the three territories in Borneo, with Labuan as a base.Head Office: Jesselton, Sabah, Malaysia. Executives: Kwan Tong Ming, chairman; M.J. C. Auster, general manager; Capt T. M. Robertson, deputy general manager (tech-nical); Capt R. H. Nicholls, chief pilot; Richard C. C. Chao, commercial superinten-dent; R. A. Williams, secretary/accountant. Employees: 215.Fleet: four DC-3, one Twin Pioneer. Bournemouth Air Taxi Ltd was registered onNovember 8, 1961 and undertakes flying train- ing and charter work, and also consultancy services. The company are contractors to theAir Ministry. Head Office: Hum Airport, Christchurch,Hampshire. Executives: L. L. Murry, managing director;Fl Lt V. Bernard, chief pilot and operations manager; P. R. Ford, general manager.Employees: 8. Fleet: one Rapide, two Cessna 172, oneAuster Autocar. Braathens—South-American and Far East Air-transport A/S (SAFE) was formed in 1946 by the Norwegian Braathen shipping concern forthe operation of long-distance charter services. Following non-scheduled flights to the FarEast the company operated regular scheduled services between Norway and Hong Kong from1949 until March 1954 when the licence was not renewed by the Norwegian Government.The company now concentrates on scheduled internal services as well as inclusive tour flightsto southern Europe and Africa and charter flights. Braathens also collaborates withLoftleidir in the operation of its Europe - Iceland - North America services, and main-tain Loftleidir's DC-6Bs. With the liquidation of Vestlandske Airways in the spring of 1958the routes flown by this company were taken over by Braathens. An ex-Cathay PacificDC-6B was acquired in 1962 and a second has just been acquired.Head Office: Oslo, Norway. Executives: L. G. Braathen, president; B. G.Braathen, president; E. Froysaa, vice-presi- dent sales; J. Rad, vice-president operations.Employees: 650. Fleet: two DC-6B, one DC-6A/B, one DC-4,five F.27 (one to be leased to Schreiner Aero Contractors NV). On order: two F.27. Bradley Air Services Ltd operates non-sched-uled and charter services, mostly in Ontario, and including pest control work, aerialadvertising, a flying school and aircraft sales and repairs. Bradley are also specialists inArctic flying and high-level photography. Head Office: Carp, Ontario.Executives: R. L. Bradley, president; W. W. Phipps, vice-president; E. Hall, secretary-treasurer. Fleet: one Lockheed P-38, two Beech AT-11,three Apache, one Beaver, one Otter, three Tri-Pacer, six Cub, two Colt, three Cessna 180,one Cessna 140, one Aeronca, one Luscombe, one Stearman biplane, one Norseman, oneComanche, one Chipmunk, one Bell 47G. Braniff International Airways. The originalBraniff company was founded in 1928 by Paul and Tom Braniff; and the line's firstaircraft, a Stinson Detroiter, bore the title Tulsa-Oklahoma City Airline on its fuselage.In 1929 the airline became part of the Universal Aviation Corporation and in 1930 BraniffAirways was organized as an independent company. The word International was addedto the title in 1948, when services were begun to Havana and Lima. The airline now operates18,432 miles of routes in the United States and to Mexico and South America. US domesticroutes go from New York as far west as Denver, and from Minneapolis/St Paul down to Texasand Louisiana. The South American routes are via the west coast to Lima, from where they branch to Sao Paulo and Rio de Janeiro, LaPaz, Asuncion and Buenos Aires. Interchange agreements with United provide through-plane service to Portland and Seattle, and with Eastern through-plane service to SouthAmerica via New York and Miami. An equip- ment interchange with PanAm providesdirect one-plane 707 services between Houston, Dallas and points in Europe.Head Office: Exchange Park, Dallas, Texas, USA. Executives: C. E. Beard, president; R. K.Brack and R. V. Carleton, senior vice-presi- dents; F. J. Beisecker, vice-president financialservices; R. H. Burck, vice-president traffic and sales; D. Hughes, vice-president operations;O. W. Crane, treasurer; Jay M. Jackson, secretary and legal counsel.Employees: 5,498. Fleet: four Boeing 707-227, five Boeing720-027, nine Electra, five DC-7C, one DC-6A, nine DC-6, 19 Convair 340/440. Onorder; 14 BAC One-Eleven (1964-65). Brasil Organizacao Aerea operates taxi andcharter services in the Parana province of Brazil. Head Office: Rue Presidente Faria 37, Curi-tiba, Brazil. Executives: J. Scheffer, president; Dr Fer-nando Piske, commercial director. Fleet: six Cessna 170, three Cessna 175, twoCessna 172, four Cessna Skylane. British Eagle International Airlines Ltd, untilthe autumn of 1963 known as Cunard Eagle Airways, is the successor to Eagle Airways,which was founded in 1953 and acquired by the Cunard Steam-Ship Co in 1960. A 60 percent share of Cunard Eagle was reacquired by its chairman, Mr H. R. Bamberg on March 1,1963. Services are operated from London to Luxembourg, Innsbruck, Dinard, La Baule,Perpignan, Stuttgart, Pisa and Rimini; from Birmingham to Palma; and from Manchesterto Nice, Rimini, La Baule and Ostend. Cunard Eagle also operate charter, troopingand inclusive tour services. Cunard Eagle have been granted licencesby the Air Transport Licensing Board for a number of additional routes. These includeservices between London and Geneva, Copen- hagen, Stockholm, Venice, Dublin, and bet-ween Liverpool and Dublin. Daily services were commenced in 1963 between London andGlasgow, Edinburgh and Belfast. In 1963 Starways became a wholly-owned subsidiaryof British Eagle, which now operates the Star- ways routes to London, Chester, Liverpool andGlasgow. Head Office: London (Heathrow).Executives: H. R. Bamberg, chairman and managing director; N. Ashton Hill, Sir JohnBrocklebank, F. F. A. Burden, R. R. A. Dug- gin, Maj-Gen C. G. B. Greaves, G. D. Pea-cock, W. H. Hodgson, J. H. Sauvage, J. W. Brancker and R. H. Senior, directors; L. W.Hopkins, general manager, scheduled services. Employees: 940.Fleet: two Britannia 324, six Britannia 312, one DC-6C, six Viscount. On order: three DC-4. British European Airways Corporation—BEAwas incorporated as a State corporation in August 1946 for the task of rebuilding Britishservices to Europe and the UK domestic services after the war. Tridents of BEA are now entering scheduled service and supplementing Vanguards on European routes
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