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534 FUGHT International. 2 April 1964 WORLD AIRLINE SURVEY . . . Executives: Ernest R. Beech, chairman;Charles C. Tillinghast, Jr, president; Floyd O. Hall, senior vice-president; E. O. Cocke,senior vice-president industry affairs; James J. Kerley, vice-president finance; Thomas B.McFadden, vice-president marketing; J. E. Frankum, vice-president and general trans-portation manager. Employees: 20,000. Fleet: rive Boeing 7O7-331B; 12 Boeing TOT-SSI, two Boeing 707-331C, 15 Boeing 707-131, 18 Boeing 707-131B, 26 Convair 880, 21L.1649A (12 are freighters), 24 L.1049G, three L.1049A, 24 L.749A and 12 L.749 Con-stellation, one Fairchild C-82. On order: one Boeing 707-33IB, five Boeing 707-331C, fiveBoeing 707-13IB, ten American SST, four BAC-Sud Concord. Trek Airways was formed in August 1953 andoperates non-scheduled, low-fare services between South Africa and Europe, Luxem-bourg is the main European terminal, and Trek is now the designated South Africancarrier on the Johannesburg - Luxembourg route. Trek's flights from Johannesburg arenow routed through Windhoek, Luanda and Cape Verde to Luxembourg. Two L.1649AShave been acquired from World Airways. Head Office: Mobil House, 87 Rissik Street,Johannesburg, South Africa. Executives: Capt T. Meredith, operationsdirector; W. B. Rorke, financial director; Capt C. H. Snelgar, commercial director;W. F. Hamilton, European director; F. C. Gratz, manager.Employees: 160. Fleet: two L.I649A Super Constellation. Tunis Air was founded in 1948 by the TunisianGovernment, Air France and other interests. It operates internal services and routes toAlgeria, Libya, Morocco, France, Switzerland and Italy. Head Office: 48 Avenue Habib Bourguiba,Tunis, Tunisia. Executives: Mohamed Kraiem, president and director general; R. Bouderbala, commercialmanager; Habib El Amri, technical manager. Fleet: one Caravelle 3, two DC-4, two DC-3.On order: one Caravelle 3. Turk Hava YoIIari AS—THY, formerlyknown as Devlet Hava Yollari (Turkish State Airlines), was set up by the Governmentin 1933 as part of the Ministry of Defence. Control passed to the Ministry of Communi-cations in 1938 until 1956 when it became a corporation bearing its present title TurkHava Yollari Anonim Sirketi (Turkish Air- lines Inc). BOAC now holds a 6 per centinterest in THY, which operates an extensive internal network of passenger services.International services are operated to Athens, Rome, Frankfurt, Nicosia and Beirut. Furtherroutes to Teheran, Paris and London are planned. Head Office: Istanbul, Turkey.Executives: Sami Sehbenderler, general man- ager; Suphi Iscen, assistant general manager;Kadri Satiryigit, technical manager; Talat Biringen, commercial director; Turgut Sayar.accounting director; Zekeriya Atilla, sales manager; Bekir Akan, operations director.Employees: 1.310. Fleet:'(OUT Viscount 794, four Fokker F-27.four Fairchild F-27, 15 DC-3 (12 for sale). two DC-3 freighter, seven Heron (for sale). Tyne Tees Airways, previously known as TyneTees Air Charter Ltd, operated passenger and freight charters, but its original application foran "E" licence was refused by the Air Trans- port Licensing Board last August, as was theappeal against this decision. Tyne Tees has now re-applied for an "E" licence for generalcharter work, and if successful will commence operations with two DC-3s immediately.Head Office: Woolsington Airport, Newcastle- upon-Tyne. Executives: G. Mohamed, managing director;Capt D. Martin, operations manager/chief pilot; R. Cater, commercial/traffic manager.Employees: 8. Fleet: four DC-3, one Dove, one Rapide. Ukamps, the North Korean airline, is suc- cessor to Sokao, the Soviet-North Korean air-line, which was founded in 1950 to connect North Korea with Aeroflot's services to andfrom Moscow. Services were suspended when North Korea invaded South Korea and opera-tions were resumed in 1953. Ukamps, described as Ministry of Transportof Korean Democratic People's Republic, now operates between Pyong-Yang and Peking.Head Office: Prospekt Stalina, Pyong-Yang, Korean Democratic Republic.Fleet: Li-2, 11-14. Union Aeromaritime de Transports—see Union de Transports Aeriens. Union de Transports Aeriens—UTA wasformed at the ena ot 19t>J by the merger of UAT (Union Aeromaritime de Transport)and TAI—compagrue de Transports Acnens lntercontinentaux. UAT was founded in ty^yand was connected with the shipping line Qe Maritime des Chargeurs Keums; it operatedroutes to the former rrench tquatonal Africa, to Rhodesia, Mozambique ana &outnAfrica, and subsequently to many other African territories. UAT also particiatedwith Air France in the creation of Air Ai'nque, and provided it with equipment. TAI was formed after the war as a charteroperator closely associated with the lviess- agenes Maritime shipping company. It alsooperated scheduled services to Africa, in par- ticular to Madagascar, and in i9ab TAItooK over the Air France routes to Australia and New Caledonia. These were later ex-tended to New Zealand and through Poly- nesia and Honolulu to J-os Angeles, connect-ing with Air rrance 707 services from .Los Angleles to Pans via Montreal. UTA con-tinues these trans-Pacific DC-8 services, as well as local services in the New Hebridesand routes to many centres in Vvest, Central and South Africa. Inclusive tour services tothis country are also operated. Head Office: 5 boulevard malesherbes, Parisbe, f-rance. Fleet: six DC-8, ten DC-6B, three DC-6A,two DC-4, two DC-3. Union of Burma Airways—UBA was organ-ized in 1948 with the Burmese Government subscribing 90 per cent of the capital. UBAoperates domestic services to all the principal towns in Burma, and international routes toCalcutta, Chittagong, Pnom-Penh and Bang- kok. Head Office: Rangoon, Burma.Executives: Lt Col Zeya Kyaw Htin Mg Mg Nyunt, chairman; U Taw, general manager;U Pe Tint, commercial manager; U. Tin Maung Chit, manager (engineering); CaptKhin Mg Latt, manager (operations); U Maung fwaung Ohn, chief accountant.Employees: 866. Fleet: three Viscount 761, three Friendship200, seven DC-3. United Air Lines—UAL was organized onJuly 1, 1931, as a management company for Boeing Air Transport, Pacific Air Transport,National Air Transport and Varney Air Lines. These companies enable United to claim con-tinuous operation back to 1926 when Varney began service. In 1933 United pioneered theuse of the low-wing twin-engined metal mono- plane when it introduced Boeing 247s on itscoast to coast route, cutting the journey time to 19£ hours. In 1947 United opened a route from SanFrancisco to Honolulu and the Company's present network extends from coast to coastover a number of routes. Hawaii is served from both San Francisco and Los Angeles.United began DC-8 services on September 18, 1959 between New York and San Francisco.Boeing 720 services began in July 1960, UAL having been the first to order this type.Caravelle service began on July 14, 1961. United is the only US carrier to use Caravelles.United began Boeing 727 services between Denver and San Francisco on February 6,1964.The merger with Capital on June 1, 1961 made United the world's largest airline.Head Office: Chicago, Illinois, USA. Employees: 31,896. Executives: W, A. Patterson, chairman of theboard and chief executive officer; G. E. Keck, president; W. C. Mentzer, senior vice-presi-dent engineering and maintenance; Marvin Whitlock, senior vice-president operations;D. R. Petty, senior vice-president flight operations; R. E. Johnson, senior vice- president marketing and services; CurtisBarkes, executive vice-president finance and property; R. F. Ahrens, senior vice-presidentand assistant to the chairman of the board; S. P. Martin, secretary to the chairman of theboard; A. M. de Voursney, senior vice- president economic planning; C. F. McEarlean, senior vice-president law; F. A. Brown, vice-president and general manager customer services.Fleet: 38 DC-8, 29 Boeing 720, four Boeing 727, 20 Caravelle 6R, 23 DC-7, six DC-7F, 40DC-6B, seven DC-6A, 30 DC-6, 17 Convair 340, 46 Viscount 745. On order: 36 Boeing 727, three DC-8F Jet Trader (1964), six DC-8Series 5. United Arab Airlines—UAA was formed in the autumn of 1960 by the merger of MisrairSAE and Syrian Airways. The latter became independent again in October 1961 as Syrian Arab Airways. Misrair was founded as MisrAirwork in May 1932 and began scheduled services in 1933, then became Misrair SAE inMay 1949 when all the capital became Egyptian-owned. The name United ArabAirlines has been used by Misrair since 1958. United Arab Airlines now operates an exten- sive network of services in the Middle Eastand North Africa and Europe. Comet services link Cairo daily with London via Rome orFrankfurt. Other services connect Cairo four times weekly with Paris via Geneva or Rome.There is a Cairo - Prague - Moscow service and another to Lagos and Accra. The Bombayroute was extended to Tokyo from May 1962 via Bangkok and Hong Kong, but is nowtemporarily suspended. Other routes to New York and Australia are envisaged.Head Office: Cairo, Egypt. Executives: H. Mahmoud, chairman of theboard; G. Afifi, managing director; A. Aboul Gheit, director; M. S. Miligi, general manager(commercial); N. Hashad, general manager (technical). Fleet: seven Comet 4C, three Viscount 739,two Viscount 732, three DC-6B, three DC-3. United Libyan Airlines is a charter operatorformed in 1962 that has purchased a DC-3 from Autair (Luton) Ltd. This new carrieris wholly Libyan owned, but employs British crews and may acquire two more DC-3s.Head Office: PO Box 204, Benghazi, Libya. Executive: Capt C. J. Bicknell, generalmanager. Fleet: one DC-3. United States Overseas Airlines Inc is one ofthe leading US supplemental carriers. Con- centrating on military charter business, includ-ing the operation of scheduled freight services for the US Navy, US Overseas began opera-tions in 1946. For six years now, US Overseas has been operating low-fare low-frequencyservices across the USA and to Miami. Hono- lulu - San Francisco - Los Angeles, San Fran-cisco - Los Angeles - Chicago - New York and New York - Miami services are operated,the New York - Los Angeles tourist single fare being only $89.50. A fortnightly servicefrom Los Angeles to Okinawa via San Fran- cisco, Honolulu, Wake Island and Guam isalso operated. Head Office: Cape May County Airport, Wild-wood, New Jersey, USA. Executives: R. W. Cox, president; R. L.McSweeney, secretary. Fleet: four DC-6B, two DC-6A, 7 DC-4. Vance International Airways began operationsin 1949 and was in 1962 granted interim operating authority by the CAB as an air taxioperator and supplemental carrier, supple- mental operations being limited to flightswithin the USA. Head Office: 8085 Perimeter Road, BoeingField, Seattle. Executives: Vance B. Roberts, general man-ager. Fleet: one DC-3, one C-46, one Douglas B-26,two Bonanza. Vancouver Island Helicopters Ltd operateshelicopter charter services, especially for the government of British Columbia, as well aspest control services, aerial reseeding and frost control by helicopters.
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