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530 RIGHT International, 2 April 1964 WORLD AIRLINE SURVEY . . . Executives: J. Sterling, managing director; A. Helgstrand, operations manager and chiefpilot; H. Kanstrup, traffic manager; A. Olander, chief engineer.Employees: 85. Fleet: five DC-6B. On order: two DC-6B. Stewart Air Service is a US supplementalcarrier that began operations in 1946. Head Office: Los Angeles, California.Executive: E. A. Stewart, president. Fleet: one DC-4 owned, one DC-4 leased,four DC-3. Stockholms Aero, also known as Asaflyg,operates charter and taxi services, advertising and photo flights and a flying school.Head Office: Box 1124, Bromma 11, Sweden. Executive: K. Berguvist, president.Fleet: four Piper PA-22, three Super Cub, two Cub, four KZ-III, one Auster J/5G Autocar,one Republic Seabee. Straits Air Freight Express—SAFE, a subsidi-ary of British United Airways is primarily engaged on scheduled freight services linkingthe North and South Islands of New Zealand. Head Office: Wellington, New Zealand.Executives: J. Sawers, chairman; B. R. Law, managing director; D. Hay, secretary; D. P.Lynskey, general manager. Employees: 122.Fleet: seven Bristol 170 Mk 31. Sudan Airways is government-owned andbegan operations in 1947; it was formed in 1946 with Airwork's assistance. Domesticroutes extend throughout the Sudan from Wadi Haifa in the north to Juba in the south;and from Geneina in the west to Port Sudan in the east. International routes serve Aden,Asmara, Addis Ababa, Nairobi, Beirut, Jeddah, Luxor, Cairo and Entebbe. A thrice-weekly Comet 4C service from Khartoum to London via Cairo, Athens, Rome and Frank-furt is now operated. Head Office: Gamaa Avenue, Khartoum,Sudan. Executives: Sayed Abel Bagi Mohammed,general manager; Y. Bakheit, traffic manager; M. H. A. Bashendi, traffic superintendent(technical); M. El Amir, sales superintendent; J. W. Jude, chief accountant; D. W. Graham,chief pilot; P. S. I. Brown, chief engineer; H. Ahmed, operations superintendent.Employees: 736. Fleet: two Comet 4C, four DC-3, three Dove,three F-27A Friendship. On order: eme F-27A Friendship. Sudflug—Suddeutsche Fluggesellschaft wasformed in 1952 and operated a daily Heron service between Stuttgart and Nuremberg,but this ceased last autumn. Sudflug also carries out charter work, specializing inexecutive flights for business concerns. Photo- grammetric and geophysical surveys have beencarried out, particularly in Central Africa. Sightseeing and joyriding is also undertaken. An ex-KLM DC-7C has recently been acquired.Head Office: Flughafen, Stuttgart, Germany. Executives: Capt R. A. Bueckle, owner and general manager; Capt Heinz A. Suter. operations manager; Capt C. Walser, chiefpilot. Fleet: one DC-7C, three Heron 2, two AeroCommander 680, two Cessna 172. Suidwes Lugdiens (Edms) Beperk, previouslyknown as South West Air Transport (Pty) Ltd, has for several years been operating feederservices connecting with South African Air- ways' flights at Windhoek. Points connectedto Windhoek include Otjiwarongo, Outjo, Otavi, Tsumeb, Grootfontein, Walvis Bayand Swakopmund. Head Office: Windhoek, South West Africa.Executives: P. H. M. Du Plessis, chairman; G. T. van Rooyen, managing director; A. K.L. Finke, chief engineer. Fleet: one DC-3, one Aero Commander, oneApache, two Cessna 205, five Cessna 182, three Ryan Navion, one Chipmunk. Surinam Airways—Surinaamse LuchvaartMaatschappij NV operates internal services in Dutch Guiana from Paramaribo to Moengo,Albina, Nickerie and Stoelsmanseiland. Head Office: PO Box 1029, Paramaribo, Surinam.Executive: N. Zaal, manager. Fleet: one DC-3, five Beech 18, two PiperApache, one Cessna 170B, one Super Cub. Sveaflyg AB is a recently formed Swedishcharter and inclusive tour operator that took delivery of an ex-American Airlines DC-6 lastyear. Two more DC-6s will be acquired. Head Office: Stockholm, Sweden.Fleet: one DC-6. On order: two DC-6. Svenska Aero AB operates taxi, charter andsightseeing flights and was founded in 1954. Head Office: Nygatan 47, Orebro, Sweden.Executive: K. O. Gustavon, president and managing director.Fleet: one Rapide. Swedair AB operates non-scheduled andcharter services in Sweden and is an associate of Svensk Flygtjanst AB.Head Office: Bromma Airport, Stockholm. Executives: Tor Eliasson, president; BengtLindberg, traffic manager. Fleet: one Lodestar, one Beech D-18S. Swissair—Swiss Air Transport was foundedon March 26, 1931, by the amalgamation of Ad Astra Aero AG and the Basle Air TrafficCo, known as Balair. Ad Astra was founded in 1919 and began flying-boat services linkingSwiss cities, before pioneering international routes. Thus Swissair can claim, with itspredecessors, 27 years' continuous operation, with summer-only services going back to 1919,although its activities were severely restricted during the war. Since 1945 the company hasgrown rapidly and it now operates a network of European routes, and services to Northand South America, North and West Africa, the Middle East and the Far East. Swissairbegan DC-8 and Caravelle services in May 1960 and Coronado services February 1962.The company has a 40 per cent holding in the "new" Balair, the Swiss air charter companyand also has a technical and equipment agree- ment with SAS. Head Office: Hirschengraben, Zurich, Switzer-land. Executives: E. Schmidheiny, chairman; E.Amstutz. E. Primault, deputy chairmen; Dr W. Berchtold, president; A. Baltensweiler,executive vice-president; E. Groh, vice-presi- dent finance and economics; Hans Aeppli,vice-president traffic and sales; R. Fretz, vice- president operations; Franz Roth, vice-presi-dent engineering and maintenance; H. Haas, vice-president and secretary general.Employees: 8,471. Fleet: two DC-8 Series 30, two DC-8 Series 50,eig it Caravelle (four leased from SAS, one based from Air France), eight Convair 990ACoronado (two leased to SAS), 11 Convair 440, three DC-3, one Dornier Do27 (for airsurvey) and three Piaggio P.149E (for crew training). Syrian Arab Airlines is the government airlineestablished in Damascus in October 1961 following the revocation of Syria's associationwith UAA. The new carrier succeeds Syrian Airways, formed in 1946, which merged withMisrair in the autumn of 1960 to form United Arab Airlines; UAA took over the equipmentand route network of Syrian Airways but has now returned it. Syrian Arab Airlines operatesdomestic services and routes from Damascus to Jerusalem, Kuwait, Beirut, Baghdad,Sharjah, Dhahran and Doha. Other routes to Nicosia, Rome and Munich have also beeninaugurated. New routes will be inaugurated in March 1964 to London and Karachi.Head Office: Red Crescent Building, Youssif Azmeh Square, Damascus.Executives: M. El Shash, general manager and chairman; Youmni Demloge, Gen Nairn Wafai,Abdul Jawad Sarmini and Adel Sadi, board members.Fleet: four DC-6B, two DC-4, three DC-3. TABSO—Bulgarian Civil Air Transport oper-ates domestic services and routes to Belgrade, Bucharest, Budapest, Paris, Prague, Vienna,Berlin, Frankfurt, Moscow and Copenhagen. A service to Algiers and Tunis is due to bestarted. The airline came into being after the war as the Government's Bulgarske Vazdusne,Sobstenie and in 1949 it became TABSO, in which Bulgaria and the USSR each held 50per cent. The USSR withdrew its interest in 1954. A Viscount 837 was leased from Aus-trian Airlines last summer. Head Office: Sofia, Bulgaria.Fleet: three 11-18, seven 11-14, nine Li-2, also An-2, Po-2. TACA de Honduras, now a subsidiary ofSAHSA, began charter operations in 1931 and became part of the TACA system in 1932.Scheduled services were begun in 1944. The TACA system sold its interests in the companyin 1948. The company operates a domestic network of services and also to Belize (BritishHonduras). Head Office: Tegucigalpa, Honduras. The Roumanian State airline TAROM started a seasonal 11-18 service to London last summer
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