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514 FLIGHT International. 2 April 1964 WORLD AIRLINE SURVEY . . . Head Office: Tocumen International Airport, Panama.Fleet: one DC-4, three C-46, two Douglas B-26B. Hi-Plains Airways Inc is a US taxi andcharter operator that applied last year to operate "third level" scheduled services inthe Colorado - Nebraska - Dakota area using Aero Commanders. This application wasrejected by the CAB examiner, and the Board's decision confirmed this rejection,although Hi-Plains is free to operate such services on its existing air taxi licence.Fleet: Aero Commander 500B. Hoffman—see Aerovias Hoffman. Hungarian—see Malev. Iberia, Lineas Aereas de Espana was established in 1940 as a successor to LAPE. Originally the Spanish Government owned 51per cent of the capital with other Spanish interests and Deutsche Lufthansa holding theother 49 per cent. All stock was subsequently acquired by the Government and the airlineis controlled through the Government-owned Instituto Nacional de Industrias. Iberia beganas a domestic operator but has in addition to its internal services others to London, Paris,Frankfurt, Geneva, Zurich, Rome and Lisbon. Long-distance services are operated to NewYork, Mexico, Puerto Rico, Bermuda, Venez- uela, Cuba, Colombia, Peru, Brazil, Uruguay,Argentina and Chile. Services are also opera- ted to Tangier, North Africa, Las Palmas,Tenerife and West Africa, also the Cameroons. DC-8 services to New York started on July 1,1961. Head Office: Madrid, Spain.Executives: General Julian Rubio Lopez, chairman; D. Lazaro Ras, executive president;F. Iglesias, chief engineer; J. M. Ansaldo, chief flight operations; J. Viniegra, general secretary.Employees: 5,052. Fleet: six DC-8 series 50, six L.1049G, sixCaravelle 6R, seven DC-4, 19 DC-3, three Bristol 170, 11 Convair 440, four Consul. Illawara Airways began operating a taxiservice in 1961 over the ten miles between Bankstown and Sydney. Sixteen services aweek are at present operated. Illawara also undertakes flying training and banner towing.Head Office: Hangar 276, Bankstown Aero- drome, Bankstown, NSW, Australia.Fleet: five Cessna 172, one Chipmunk. Imperial Transportes Aereos Ltda operatesnon-scheduled and taxi services in the Minas Gerais province of Brazil.Head Office: Av. Afonso Pena 342, Belo Horizonte, Brazil.Fleet: two Beech D-18S, five Bonanza. Indian Airlines Corporation—IAC was formedin 1953, taking over on August 1 that year the services previously operated by a number ofprivate airlines. Operating 24,193 miles of routes in India and to Afghanistan, Burma,Ceylon, Nepal and East and West Pakistan, the corporation's operations are divided intothree areas with bases at Bombay, Calcutta and Delhi. IAC is responsible for all Indianinternal services. A daily Bombay - Delhi service is flown with an Air-India Boeing 707.Headquarters: Airlines House, 113-Gurdwara Rakabganj Road, New Delhi, India.Executives: Satish Chandra, chairman; S. Mullick, general manager; D. R. Kohli,secretary; K. N. Kaul, financial comptroller; Capt J. M. Engineer, chief operations andplanning manager; Biren Mukerji, chief traffic manager.Employees: 9,703. Fleet- one Caravelle 6N, three DC-4, 42 DC-3,eight Viscount 768, four Viscount 779, ten F-27 Friendship. On order: two Caravelle 6N. Indies Air Inc, operating under the name ofIndair, is a company in the Caribbean backed by financial interests in Puerto Rico, the VirginIslands and the USA. Applications were made in 1961 to operate routes to 15 cities and townsin Puerto Rico and the Virgin Islands, and fixed-wing aircraft were to be used initially.Indies Air signed a letter of intent for five Westland Rotodynes with the Kaman Air-craft Corporation in 1961, but with the Roto- dyne's cancellation another type of helicopterwill presumably be ordered Head Office: San Juan, Puerto Rico.Executive: Sterling Pile, vice-president. Indonesian—see Garuda Indonesian Airways. Ini Airlines—see Aerolineas Ini y Cia. Inlet Airlines Inc began operations in 1961over the Anchorage - Kenai - Soldotna - Homer - Seldovia route in southern Alaska.A dozen services a week are now operated. Head Office: PO Box 6-244, Anchorage,Alaska. Fleet: DC-3, two L.10 Electra, Heron, Dove,Beechcraft D-18S, one Aloutte. Intercontinental US Inc is an American-registered charter operator formed in New York early in 1960 to engage in world-widecharter work. It has a European base at Luxembourg Airport and is associated withInterocean Airways SA. Intercontinental began operations in 1960 with two DC-4s thatwere later sold to Interocean. Transtate Air- lines, a subsidiary of Intercontinental US Inc,applied last November to operate a New York - Buffalo "walk-on" service using 84-passengerL.1049Hs, but permission was refused. Head Office: 201 West 72nd Street, New York23, New York, and PO Box 317, Luxembourg Villa, Luxembourg. Executive: Benjamin B. Peck, president.Fleet: two L.1049H Super Constellation, one L.1049G. Interflug GmbH is the second East Germanairline and was formed on September 18, 1958, to specialize in international travel andservices from the German Democratic Repub- lic to West Germany and Copenhagen. Thetitle was the result of a ruling by the Inter- national Court of Justice at The Hague toprevent confusion with the Deutsche Lufthansa of West Germany. Interflug is run jointly bythe East German Lufthansa (which it has now absorbed), Deutrans, the freight agents, andthe Deutsche Reisebiiros (German State Travel Agency). Interflug absorbed the East GermanLufthansa on September 1, 1963, together with most of its fleet and routes. Domestic servicesare operated, and routes from East Berlin to Moscow, Prague, Budapest, Sofia, Bucharest,Belgrade, Tirana and Warsaw. Head Office: Zentralflughafen Berlin-Schone-feld, German Democratic Republic. Executives: Arthur Pieck, director-general;Karl Heiland, director. Employees: 2,000. Fleet: seven 11-18, 27 11-14, 23 Antonov An-2,55 Ld 60 Brigadyr, also Mi-4 helicopters. Interior Enterprises Inc operates charterservices 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 aCanadian non-scheduled ODerator. Head Office: Edmonton, Alberta.Fleet: three Canadair North Star. Interocean Airways SA is a charter operatorregistered in Luxembourg and offering charter services with 73-seat DC-4s convertible tofreighters. Interocean's two Carvairs are operated on cargo and car ferry charters.Head Office: Luxembourg Airport, Luxem- bourg.Executives: Henry Pransky, managing director; Walter B. McCarthy, director of sales; DanielMcDonnell, director of maintenance; Bert Blumenfeld, director of technical sales.Employees: 48. Fleet: two Carvair, four DC-4 owned. Interstate Airmotive Inc is a US fixed baseoperator 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; BobDonovan, vice-president. Fleet: DC-3. Inter-State Air Services is a Seuth African taxiand charter operator formed in 1963 by the merger of Vaal Air Services and M.S. AirServices. Inter-State is the Mooney distributor for South Africa and Mozambique, and is toadd twin-engined aircraft to its fleet. Head Office: Rand Airport, Germiston.Fleet: two Cessna 210, one Bonanza. Iran National Airlines Corp—Iranair wasfounded as a private compaay in 1944 and began full scale scheduled operations in May1946. Operations have steadily increased and Iranair routes now extend across the MiddleEast from Karachi and Bombay to Baghdad. Domestic services are operated in Iran and theairline flies regular services to Pakistan, Afghanistan, Iraq, Kuwait, Trucial Oman,Saudi Arabia and Qatar. Iranair and Persian Air Services merged in the spring of 1962 toform Iran National Airlines Corporation. Pan American is to provide management andtechnical assistance to Iran National under a three-year programme.Head Office: Avenue Saadi, Teheran, Iran. Executives: Reza Afshar, chairman and man-aging director; Houshang Afshar, assistant managing director; John Waterman, opera-tions director; R. Semnad, director of traffic and sales; Ahmed Majidi, member of theboard 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 andbecame a separate company on April 1, 1960. Viscounts operate frequent services from Bagh-dad to Bahrain, Kuwait, Dhahran, Basra, Beirut, Damascus, Jerusalem, Cairo and Tehe-ran and a thrice-weekly service to London, via Istanbul, Rome and Paris or Prague andVienna. Viscount services are also operated to Mosul and Kirkuk. There is also a once-fortnightly service to Karachi and Delhi. Head Office: Railways Station Building,Baghdad, Iraq. Executives: A. J. Ramadhan, director-general;Brig Ghazi Ghizath El-Din, deputy director- general ; Capt Ismail Fattah, deputy director-general, technical; A. T. Sardar, commercial manager.Employees: 535. Fleet: four Viscount, one Dove. On order:three Trident IE. Irish International Airlines—see Aer Lingusand Aerlinte Eireann. Island Airlines, until recently known as SkyTours 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 theBass Islands a few miles away, and to Peele Island in Canadian waters—a route just 25miles long. Island Airlines was founded in 1930 and carries some 35,000 passengers ayear. Head Office: Port Clinton, Ohio.Fleet: two Ford 5-AT-B Trimotor, one Boeing 247D, Cessnas Island Airlines is a company formed in Hawaiiin 1962 to operate low-fare services in the Hawaiian Islands with 80-passenger DC-4s.Operations began on May 24, 1963 but the CAB refused permission for them to continue.Head Office: Honolulu, Hawaii. Fleet: one DC-4. Islip Airlines is a US operator of "third level"services between Nassau and Suffolk counties, Long Island, and the John F. Kennedy inter-national airport (Idlewild). Three round trips per day are flown on weekdays only.Fleet: Aero Commander. Itavia—see page 492. Jamaica Air Services was formed in 1962 tooperate domestic services within Jamaica between Montego Bay, Ocho Rios, PortAntonio and Kingston. BWIA took a 49 per
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