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fLIGHT International, IS April 1965 WORLD AIRLINE SURVEY and in July 1959 direct Tokyo - Seattle services were also started.In February 1960 an agreement was reached with Air France for a joint JAL/Air Franceservice on the Polar route from Tokyo to Europe. In June 1961 JAL inaugurated itsown DC-8 jet trans-Polar service to Europe. At the same time a JAL/Air France pool agree-ment on the Polar route came into effect to replace the joint operation. On October 4,1962, JAL inaugurated Convair 880M services from Tokyo to London via India and theMiddle East. DC-8s now operate this route. Under the joint operation of air servicesbetween Japan and the Republic of Korea, JAL inaugurated Tokyo - Seoul service withConvair 88OMs from April 15, 1964. JAL has plans to extend its trans-Pacific routes to NewYork and on to London. Head Office: Tokyo Bldg, 2-chome, Marun-ouchi, Chiyoda-ku, Tokyo, Japan. Executives: K. Uemura, chairman; S. Matsuo,president; T. Godo, executive vice-president; S. Asada, senior vice-president. Vice-presi-dents: T. Oba, operations and maintenance; I. Muto, administration; G. Tominaga,engineering and maintenance; Y. Takagi, sales administration; S. Saito, personnel; S.Otsuka. planning and public relations; S. Inamasu, economics and finances; M. Mat-sumoto, operations and maintenance adminis- tration; Y. Murakami, flight operations andtransportation service. Employees: 8,600. Fleet: 11 DC-8, one DC-8F, three DC-7C,one DC-7F, seven Convair 880M, eight DC-6B. On order: six Boeing 727, five US SST. Japan Cargo Airways, formed in 1963 tooperate all-freight services across the Pacific, have not started operations. Two CL-44sordered for this operation have been sold to other customers by Canadair. Japan Domestic Airlines—Nippon KokunaiKoku—was formed in April 1964 when North Japan Airlines, Nitto Airlines and FujiAirlines were merged. Routes are operated to Toyama, Niigata, Akita, Hakodate, Osaka andTakamatsu from Tokyo. Head Office: Tokyo International Airport,Tokyo, Japan. Executives: Kyukichi Maeda, chairman;Yashimari Kanno, president; Ryohei Itow, vice-president; Tan Hayashi, senior managing director. Fleet: one DC-6B (leased from JAL), oneConvair 880-22M (leased from GD), ten Convair 240, two DC-3, two DH Heron, twoMallard, eight helicopters and eight small fixed wing aircraft. On order: two Nord 262.15YS-11. Jersey Airlines—see British United (CI) Air-ways. Johnson Flying Service is a fixed-base operatorand supplemental carrier in Montana headed by Bob Johnson, a pioneer in training "smokejumpers" for forest fire control. Ford Tri- motors are used for aerial forest fire controlwork for the US Forest Service. Other activities of Johnson Flying Service include theoperation of a flying training school, charter nights, ambulance, crop spraying and rangeseeding services, oil exploration and snow measurement surveys. A certificated supple-mental service is also operated. Head Office: Box 1366, Missoula, Montana,USA. Executives: R. R. Johnson, president/generalmanager; Arthur Pritzl, vice-president and chief of maintenance.Fleet- one DC-4, two C-46, two DC-3, one 1JC-2, two Ford Trimotor, two Beech 18,four Beech AT-11, five Travel Air, four Bell 47, about 20 other aircraft. Jordanian—superseded by Alia. Jugoslovenski Aerotransport — JAT — wasfounded in 1947 and is state-owned. Domestic services are operated as well as services to Athens, Beirut, Cairo, Copenhagen, Frank-furt, Munich, Paris, London, Vienna, Rome, Tirana, Warsaw and Zurich. During 1964 newroutes were opened to Amsterdam and East Berlin. Head Office: PO Box 749, Belgrade 3, Jugo-slavia. Executives: Vidomar Krunic. managing direc-tor; Gojko Vojdovic, commercial manager; Dobrivoje Mandic, technical director.Employees: 1,500. Fleet: three Caravelle 6, five Convair 440,11 DC-3. Kalinga Airlines (Private) Ltd was formed in1947 but suspended operations when all Indian domestic services were nationalized. It wasrestarted under present management in 1958 and since May 1960 has specialized in supply-dropping operations to isolated communities in the mountainous border areas.Head Office: 10 Middleton Row, Calcutta 16, India. Executives: Mrs G. Patnaik, chairman; C.Balan, general manager; Capt T. H. J. Prowse, operations manager; A. C. Sekhri, chiefengineer. Employees: 280.Fleet: five DC-3. Kar-Air OY was formed originally in 1950 andis the scheduled domestic and international charter-operating subsidiary of an old-established Karhumoki aircraft manufactur- ing, maintenance and airline organization.Geological survey work is also carried out using the Lodestar. During 1963 Finnairacquired a 28.9 °/ o interest and also has anoperating agreement with Kar-Air. Routes flown are from Helsinki to Tampere, Lappeen-ranta - Joensuu and Sundsvall (Sweden). Head Office: Lonnrotinkatu 3, Helsinki,Finland. Executives: T. Karhumaki, president; K.Sipila, treasurer; K. Nurmi, technical man- ager; A. Gronlund, sales manager.Employees: 145. Fleet: three DC-6B, three DC-3, one Lodestar. Kesterson Inc is a US non-scheduled carrieroperating from Tennessee. Head Office: PO Box 1145, Knoxville, Tennes-see, USA. Fleet: one DC-3. Keystone Helicopter Corporation is one of thelarger US helicopter charter operators. Key- stone and Avianca of Colombia jointly ownHelicopteros Nacioflales de Colombia (Helicol). Head Office: Land Title Building, Phila-delphia, Pennsylvania, USA. Executive: Peter Wright, president.Fleet: one Sikorsky S-51, 23 Bell 47. Renting Aviation Ltd was formed in October1947 as a 30% owned subsidiary of the Hunting Survey Company, to own and operateaircraft for the Hunting Group and acquired Kenting Helicopters in 1962. Operates world-wide charter services as well as photographic and airborne geophysical surveys.Head Office: PO Box 1001, Toronto Inter- national Airport, Malton, Ontario, Canada.Executives: D. N. Kendall, president; A. F. Souter, general manager; M. E. Dedrick,treasurer; B. F. Kennerly, secretary. Employees: 30. Fleet: two Boeing B-17, two Canso, oneLockheed 14, one Hudson, two Baron, two Queen Air, one Aero Commander, oneSikorsky S-55, one Bell 47G. Kingston Flying Club, in addition to its normalactivities, undertake charter work and operate a scheduled Kingston - Montreal andKingston - Toronto service. Head Office: Norman Rogers Airport, Kings-ton, Ontario, Canada. Executives: Reginald Greenwood, president;Allen Brooks, vice-president; Douglas Wag- ner, general manager; Edward Bell, secretary.Fleet: one Beech D18, one Musketeer, four Fleet Canuck, three Cessna 140/172/195. KLM—Koninklijke Luchtvaart Maatschappij NV—the Netherlands national airline, beganoperations in May 1920. A European network was established and services to Java began in1929. Services were begun in the West Indies 587 in 1935 and these continued throughout thewar, enabling the company to claim 45 years of continuous operation. With a presentunduplicated route mileage of nearly 135,000 miles, KLM has a network of European routes,and routes between Europe and North, Central and South America; North and SouthAfrica; the Near, Middle and Far East and Australia. Altogether KLM flies to 66countries. For more than 30 years KLM was directed by its founder, Dr Albert Plesman.Approximately 70 % of the company's capital is now held by the Dutch Government.Head Office: 1 Plesmanweg, The Hague, Netherlands. Executives: H. Albarda, president; G. van derWai, deputy president; F. Besancon. J. A. van de Kamp, J. Luymes, executive vice-presidents.Employees: 14,500. Fleet: seven DC-8-30, seven DC-8-50, twoDC-8F, four DC-7F, 11 Electra, two L.1049H (leased to Flying Tiger), nine Viscount 803.On order: three US SST, six DC-9. Kodiak Airways Inc operates over three routeswithin Alaska from Kodiak to Lazy Bay, Karluk and Port Williams.Head Office: Box 1065, Kodiak, Alaska, USA. Executives: R. L. Hall, president; Helen Hall,secretary/treasurer. Employees: 28.Fleet: one Grumman Goose, three Widgeon, one Super Cub, one Cessna 180. Korean Air Lines formed in June 1962 tosucceed the privately owned Korean National Airlines (founded in 1947), is wholly owned bythe Government of the Republic of Korea. Domestic operations were started in December 1962. A service from Soeul to Osaka wasstarted in March 1964 in conjunction with Japan Air Lines, using a Fokker F-27. Serviceto Fukuoka from Pusan will be operated later. Head Office: 64-5, 2 Ka, Choongku-Roo,Seoul, Korea. Executives: Yoo Hyup Shin, president; KakSoon Lee, executive vice-president. Vice- presidents: Yung Rak Min, operations; KeChin Kim, traffic and sales; Chul Cho Kim, finance. Employees: 305.Fleet: two F-27, one DC-4, two DC-3. Kunnallistekniikka AB (Finnmap) carries outaerial photography in Finland and abroad. Head Office: Kiviaidankatu 9, Helsinki, Fin-land. Executives: Kalevi Nordman, pilot; LasseLuume, navigator; Sakari Tuovinen, camera operator.Employees: 3. Fleet: one Pilatus Porter. Kuwait Airways Corporation was founded in1953 as Kuwait National Airways, adopting the present title in 1958. BOAC took over thetechnical management of Kuwait Airways in June 1958, and in September 1959 BritishInternational Air Lines, a wholly owned BOAC subsidiary in Kuwait that providedcharter and maintenance services to the Kuwait Oil Company and the Kuwait FlyingClub, was taken over by Kuwait Airways. The Kuwait Government having acquiredall Kuwait Airways shares, the company became a Government concern on June 1, 1963. Kuwait Airways operates services toBahrain, Doha. Karachi, Bombay, Cairo, Beirut, Jerusalem, Damascus, Baghdad,Teheran and Abadan. A Comet 4C service to London via Beirut and Geneva, Paris or Frank-furt began on March 2, 1964. Trans Arabia Airways were bought out and merged withKuwait Airways in April 1964. Head Office: PO Box 394, Kuwait.Executives: Abdul Rahman Al Mishri, general manager; Wane Ajouz, commercial manager;Eric Taylor, technical manager; Nizar Abu Ghazaleh, chief accountant; Capt E. T.Pridmore, chief pilot. Emplovees: 830. Fleet:'two Comet 4C, three DC-6B, threeViscount 700, two Twin Pioneer, On order: two Trident IE, three One-Eleven 300. Ladeco—Linea Aerea del Cobre Ltda—operates DC-3s on domestic services within Chile between Santiago, Potrerillos, Anto-fagasta, and Calama, and also southwards from Santiago to Puerto Montt, Rio Cisnesand Coyhaique. Ladeco was formed in
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