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538 WORLD AIRLINE SURVEY . . . Iran National Airlines Corporation (IranAir) was founded by Government decree at the beginning of 1962, by which IranianAirways Co (Iranair), formed in December 1944, merged with Persian Air Services,which had begun operations in 1955, the new airline being wholly government-ownedafter reorganisation. The routes now extend across the Middle East from Karachi,Bombay and Kabul to Baghdad and Beirut in addition to domestic services and flightsto points in the Persian Gulf such as Kuwait, Doha, Dubai and Dhahran. InEurope points served include London, Frankfurt, Paris, Hamburg, Geneva, Rome,Moscow and Istanbul. Head Office: 44 Villa Street, Teheran,Iran. Executives: Managing director, Lt GenA. M. Khademi; deputy managing director, Maj Gen A. A. Rafaat. Directors: CaptL, C. Lindsey (projects), M. A. Deutsch (operations), R. A. Roberts (technical), H.Trajadod (commercial), R. Zolnasr (finan- cial), Brig Gen A. Fiuzi (services of supply),Dr A. Moayyad (medical). Legal manager, H. Razavi. Employees: 2,176. Fleet: Four Boeing 727-86, seven DC-6,five DC-3. Iraqi Airways Ltd was formed in Decem-ber 1945 as a subsidiary of the Government- owned Iraqi State Railways. The airlineleft Iraqi Railways and became a financially independent company on April 1,1960. Services radiate from Baghdad to Bahrain. Kuwait, Dhahran, Basrah, Mosul,Beirut, Damascus, Cairo, Vienna, Istanbul, Prague, Teheran, Frankurt, Geneva andLondon. Head Office: New Station Building,Baghdad, Iraq. Executives: Director general, Maj-GenHameed Tawfiq. Deputy director generals: Yahya Al-Samara'i (general administration),Ismail Fattah (technical), Ahmed Al-Araji (commercial). Employees: 1,140.Fleet: Three Trident IE, three Viscount 735. Irish Airlines and Irish International Air-lines—see Aer Lingus and Aerlinte Eireann. Island Airlines—see Sky Tours Inc. Island Flying Services Ltd, known pre-viously as Bahamas Air Traders Ltd. oper- ate charter services throughout the Bahamas,and to the mainland of the USA. Island is also a fixed-base operator. Head Office: PO Box 395, Nassau, NP,Bahamas. Executives: Chairman and managingdirector, S. O. Hackley; president, Capt G. A. Hensler Jr; vice-president, E. F.Aldbury. Fleet: One Twin Otter, four SuperWidgeon, two Goose, one Aztec, one Cessna 336. Island Mail Inc was certificated in January1966 to operate scheduled commuter ser- vices from Friday Harbour in the state ofWashington. Head Office: Friday Harbour, Washing-ton. USA. Fleet: One Cessna 206. Island Sky Ferries Inc operate twice-dailyscheduled commuter air services between Friday Harbor, Puget Sound islands, Bel-lingham and Seattle. Head Office: Box 487, Friday HarborAirport, Washington, USA. Executive: President/chief pilot, Roy V.Franklin. Fleet: One Cessna 180 floatplane, one206. three 172, one Stinson SR10 Bush- master. Isle Royale Airways operate scheduledcommuter air services on the route Grand Portage-Rock Harbor-Copper Harbor andHoughton, Michigan. Operations were FLIGHT International, II i'?6i started in July 1965. Head Office: Houghton Airport, Michi- gan, USA. Fleet: One Grumman Mallard. Itavia—see Aerolinee Itavia. Jamaica Air Services Ltd, formed in 1962as a BWIA subsidiary, was liquidated and ceased operations with effect from 15December, 1967, with the mutual consent of the Government and British West IndianAirways. The Government immediately formed a new company called Jamaica AirService (1967) Ltd, which took over the operations from 16 December, 1967, andAir Jamaica provides managerial and opera- tional assistance. One of the three Heronscontinued operating for the new company and a 748 has since been put into opera-tion, having been obtained on lease from Autair International. Services are stilloperated between Kingston, Ocho Rios, Port Antonio and Montego Bay. Head Office: 76 Harbour Street, Kings-ton, Jamaica. Executives: Chairman, G. A. Brown;directors, O. H. Goldson, A. E. Issa, Stuart Sharpe, Anthony Hart, Frank Hall,Jim Pattinson, Dr Oswald Tomlinson; general manager, G. G. Machado.Fleet: One HS.748 leased from Autair International, three Heron. Jamair Co Private Ltd, formed in 1948. isa privately owned Indian non-scheduled freight and charter operator. Head Office: 2 Camac Street, Calcutta16, India. Executives: Directors, C. L. Chandak,C. T. Quin, J. B. Muff; general manager, H. V. Dequadros.Employees: 130. Fleet: Three DC-3. Janss Airways Inc operate scheduled com-muter air services on the route Hailey-Sun Valley-Boise-Burley and Salt Lake City. Head Office: PO Box 639, 323 IdahoStreet, Boise, Idaho, USA. Executive: Owner, R. H. Smith.Fleet: Three aztec, one Twin Comache. Japan Air Lines (JAL-Nihon Koku Kabu-shiki Kaisha) is successor to the original Japan Air Lines founded by private in-terests, and started operations m October 1951. On October 1, 1953, the new com-pany came into being with the Government holding 58% of the stock. JAL nowoperates an extensive network of inter- national, regional and domestic services topoints in Asia, North America, Middle East and Europe. With the addition of thetrans-atlantic service in March 1967 JAL is now one of the four carriers to fly com-pletely round-the-world to Tokyo; over the North Pole, westwards via the USAand eastwards through the Midtile East and India. JAL also operates a Tokyo-Moscow service in conjunction with Aero- flot, using the latter's TU-114s to whichJAL insignia have been added. Commenc- ing on September 1 a new route will beopened connecting Hong Kong, Tokyo, Vancouver, San Francisco and Mexico City.1969_ will see the opening of a new service serving Australia. Head Office: Tokyo Building, 2-chome,Marunouchi, Chiyqda-ku, Tokyo, Japan. Executives: Chairman, Kogoro Uemura;president, Shizuma Matsuo; executive vice- president, Teruo Godq; senior vice-president, operations administration. Shizuo Asada. Vice-presidents: Maintenance ad-ministration, G. Tominaga; sales adminis- tration, Y. Takagi; personnel and labourrelations, S. Saito: finance and property, S. Inamasu; planning and public relations.M. Matsumoto: facilities, Y. Murakami: general affairs. S. Tanaka: operations, H.Odagiri: maintenance. Y. Yamazaki. Air- craft purchasing manager. G. Tominaga;vice-president Americas, S. Kameda. Employees: 10.300. Fleet: One DC-8-62. 17 DC-8. twoDC-8F, seven Convair 880, 13 Boeing 727- 46/89, four DC-6B. three Queen Air 65,six Beech H-18. On order: Nine DC-8- 61/62, three Concorde, six Boeing 747, fiveBoeing SST. On option: Two Boeing 747. Japan Domestic Airlines Co LtdKokusai Koku) was formed in April ig* when North Japan Airlines, Nitto Arttion Co Ltd and Fuji Airlines merged. Granted limited domesticroute operations during 1965 but routes were transferred to Japan Airon July 1, 1966, together with two 727s and a Convair 880. JDA at nrespmoperate secondary domestic and f eSroutes. c Head Office: Hibiya. Kaikan Building20, 2-chome, Uchisaiwai-cho, Chivoda-Kii Tokyo, Japan. Executives: Chairman, Shizuma Matsuopresident, Tatsuhiko Kawabuchi; executiv managing director, Mikio NojiriFleet: Ten Nihon YS-11, three Nori 262, seven Convair 240 (three leased to JA]for Southwest Air Lines), two Aero Com mander 500A/680F. one Twin Bonanza, omCessna 175, eleven Cessna 172, one 170 12 Kawasaki-Bell 47, three Kawasaki KH-4, Johnson Flying Services Inc was formeiin 1927 and is authorised to operate as ; supplemental carrier and fixed-base operator. Flying training, crop spraying, arnbu lance and general charter work is alsoundertaken. During 1966 Executive Jet Aviation requested CAB approval to acquincontrol of Johnson and has ordered two Boeing 7O7-32OCs and two 727-100QCs foruse by JFS in anticipation of a successful negotiation. Head Office: Box 1366, Missoula, Montana, USA. Executives: President, R. R. Johnson;vice-president, A. Pritzl. Fleet: One DC-4, two DC-3, one DC-2,two C-46. two Ford Trimotor, two Beech 18, four Beech AT-11, five Travel Air plusapproximately 25 other light aircraft. Jugoslovenski Aerorransport (JAT) wasfounded in 1947 and is state-owned. Dom- estic and international services are operatedlinking Belgrade and Zagreb with Athens, Beirut, Cairo, Copenhagen, Frankfurt,Munich, Paris, London, Vienna, Rome, Milan, Venice, Sofia, Budapest, Prague,Moscow, Warsaw, Zurich. Amsterdam, East Berlin, Tunis and Tripoli.Head Office: PO Box 749, Bircaninova 1-3. Belgrade, Jugoslavia. . Executives: Managing director. Vidornir Krunic; operations director, VojislayRakic; technical director. Dobrivoje Mandic. Employees: 1.763. . ... Fleet: Five Caravelle. five Convair 440, one CV340, ten DC-3. On order: One Caravelle. Kalinga Air Lines (Private) Ltd was formedin 1947 but suspended operations when ail Indian domestic services were nationalise"in 1953. It was restarted under present management in 1958 and since May whas specialised in supply-dropping opera- tions to isolated communities m the mmmtainous northern border areas, ?ince/["' 30. 1967. these operations have been taKenover by India Air Force DC-3s. Head Office: 10 Middleton Row. cutta 16. India. „ Executives: Chairman. Mrs O.general manager, C. Balan: ope manager, Capt K. C. Tnpathy,engineer. A. C. Sekhri. Employees: 311.Fleet: Six DC-3. Kanki Airlines, or Kanki Koku ^ operates air taxi, sightseeing and en flights, as well as scheduled services w VeYtol 107s over the 70-mile Tokyo-i route. , . ,, . , KV-107 Fleet: Two Kawasaki- Vertol N ^ Model II (one leased from Kawasau;, Kawasaki-Bell 47G-2. *O/X> an° tjO Karhumaki Airways (F aformed originally in 1VM> <»""' atjOnalscheduled domestic . and »ntX old- charter-operating subsidiary ,,OI__mlfactur-established Karhumaki aircraft ^anu ^ ing, maintenance and a»rlmf-carried outGeological survey work is als?g^ pinnair using the Lodestar. During ' has anacquired a 28.9% interest operating agreement with a
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