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574 FLIGHT International, 15 April First of Braniff's 14 BAC One-Elevens was delivered at the airline's Dallas base on March 13 WORLD AIRLINE 8URVEY . . . fleet. In 1961 Bonanza rose from 10th to 2ndplace in passenger load factor among the 13 local service airlines and in 1962 and 1963achieved 1st place. Package tours are offered as well as a variety of excursion fares fromevery point on its routes, and the "Bonanza- land" area-fare tariff which allows unlimited,unrestricted transport over airline's routes at a cost of $90 for a two-week period, or $160 fora four-week period. Head Office: PO Box 391, McCarran Field,Las Vegas, Nevada, USA. Executives: Edmund Converse, president/chairman; G. Robert Henry, executive vice- president and director; vice-presidents: M. W.Reynolds, operations; R. J. Sherer, finance; L. Decker, traffic and sales; John D. Lindsay,advertising and publicity. Employees: 760.Fleet: 14 F-27A. On order: three DC-9. Borneo Airways—see Malaysian Airways. Bournemouth Air Taxi Ltd—Bournair—formedin November 1961, undertakes charter, flying training and operation of executive aircraft.The company is also an authorized Cessna dealer, and are contractors to the Air Ministry.Head Office: Bournemouth (Hum) Airport, Christchurch, Hampshire.Executives: L. L. Murry, managing director; Ft-Lt V. Bernard, director of operations; D. E.Turner, general manager. Employees: 10. Fleet: one Dove, one Cessna 185. one Cessna172, two Cessna 150, one Auster 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 andcharter flights. Braathens also collaborates with Loftleidir in the operation of its Europe -Iceland - North America services, and main- tain Loftleidir's DC-6Bs. With the liquidationof Vestlandske Airways in the spring of 1958 the routes flown by this company were takenover by Braathens. Head Office: Fr Nansens Plass, 7, 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: one DC-6A/B, two DC-6B, seven F-27(one leased to Schreiner Airways), one Cessna 206. Bradley Air Services Ltd operates non-sched-uled and charter services, mostly in Ontario, and including pest control work, aerial advertising, a flying school and aircraft salesand repairs. Bradley are also specialists in Arctic flying and high-level photography.Head Office: Carp, Ontario, Canada. 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 was founded inits original form in 1928 by Paul and Tom Braniff; the line's first aircraft, a StinsonDetroiter, bore the title Tulsa-Oklahoma City Airline on its fuselage. In 1929 the airline becamepart of the Universal Aviation Corporation and in 1930 Braniff Airways was organized asan independent company. The word Inter- national was added to the title in 1948, whenservices were begun to Havana and Lima. The airline now operates 18,432 miles of routes inthe USA and to Mexico and South America. US domestic routes go from New York as farwest as Denver, and from Minneapolis/St Paul down to Texas and Louisiana. The SouthAmerican routes are via the west coast to Lima, from where they branch to Sao Pauloand Rio de Janeiro, La Paz, Asuncion and Buenos Aires. Interchange agreements withUnited provide through-plane service to Portland and Seattle, and with Easternthrough-place service to South America via New York and Miami. An equipment inter-change with PanAm provides direct one-plane 707 services between Houston, Dallas andpoints in Europe. Head Office: Exchange Park, Dallas, Texas,USA. ' Executives: Harding L. Lawrence, president;R. V. Carleton, executive vice-president; R. K. Brack, senior vice-president; F. J. Beisacker,vice-president, financial services; R. H. Burck, vice-president, traffic and sales; D. Hughes,vice-president, operations; Horace Bolding, vice-president, supply and cost control;Joseph Horton, vice-president, maintenance and engineering; O. W. Crane, treasurer; JayM. Jackson, secretary and legal counsel. Employees: 5,498, Fleet: four Boeing 707-227, six 720-027, nineElectra, five DC-7C, one DC-6A, ten DC-6, 17 Convair 340/440. one BAC One-Eleven.On order: 13 BAC One-Eleven, two US SST. 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 Sky lane. Bristow Helicopters Ltd is a wholly ownedsubsidiary of British United Airways, itself a member of the Air Holdings Group. Formedin 1955 the company was acquired by BUA in 1960 and amalgamated with Airwork Inter-national the same year. It is responsible for all rotary-wing operations and maintenance of the fleet of over 70 helicopters. Flying trainingoil prospecting and drilling-support operations crop-spraying and charter services are under-taken and during 1964 three Wessex 60 turbine helicopters were ordered for the company'sincreasing participation in the North Sea oil-drilling operations. Delivery is due inNovember 1965. Head Office: Redhill Aerodrome, Surrey.Executives: Sir Miles Wyatt, chairman; Alan E. Bristow, managing director; G. Russell FryA. G. Green, F. A. Laker, J. N. Wooley, directors.Employees: 300. Fleet: 20 Gnome-Whirlwinds, four Widgeon36 Hiller UH-12. five Bell 47, one Aiglet, one Dove, one Twin Pioneer. On order: threeWessex 60. Britair East African Airways was formed earlyin 1965 as a charter company to operate between Europe and East Africa.Head Office: Eastleigh Airport, Nairobi, Kenya. Executive: Capt M. Kozubski, chairman.Fleet: one L-749. Britannia Airways Ltd was formed as Euravia(London) Ltd at the beginning of 1962, and changed its name in the autumn of 1964 whenthe airline planned its present all-Britannia fleet. Since formation the airline has concen-trated on inclusive-tour and group charter flights, which were started with three Constella-tions. Following a successful season Euravia purchased these aircraft from Universal SkyTours and also operated the fleets of the former Trans European Aviation Ltd andSkyways Ltd making a total Constellation fleet of eight aircraft in 1964.Head Office: Luton Airport, Bedfordshire. Executives: J. E. D. Williams, managingdirector; J. C. Harrington, director; D. G. Macqueen, general sales manager: D. H.Davison, operations manager; J. Little, techni- cal manager; R. Muckleston, companysecretary. Employees: 230. Fleet: five Britannia 102. On order: oneBritannia 102. British Eagle International Airlines Ltd, untilthe autumn of 1563 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%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 Rimini and Ostend. British Eagle also operate charter, trooping and inclusive tourservices. British 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. In 1963 Starways became a wholly-owned subsidiary of BritishEagle, which now operates the Starways routes between London, Chester, Liverpooland Glasgow. Starways is now named British Eagle (Liverpool) Ltd. Head Office: London (Heathrow) Airport,Middlesex. Executives: H. R. Bamberg. chairman andmanaging director; N. Ashton Hill, Sir John Brocklebank, F. F. A. Burden, R. R. A. Dug-gin, G. D. Peacock, W. H. Hodgson, J. H. Sauvage, J. W. S. Brancker and R. H. Senior,directors; S. E. Hoare, general manager, scheduled services.Employees: 1,775. Fleet: one Britannia 319, nine Britannia 312,two Britannia 324, two Britannia 308, six Viscount 701, two Viscount 755. British Eagle (Liverpool) Ltd operates scheduledservices from Liverpool to London and Glas- gow and Chester to London. Seasonal servicesfrom Newquay to London, Manchester. Liverpool and Glasgow and from Liverpoolto Cork and Ostend are operated. Head Office: Liverpool Airport.Executives: H. R. Bamberg. chairman and managing director; directors: H. W. G.Andrews (manager); N. Ashton Hill; R. R. A. Duggin; W. H. Hodgson; G. D. Peacock;J. H. Sauvage. Fleet: as British Eagle International (above).
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