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539 FLIGHT International, II April 1968 Tfie contract charter carrier, Laker Airways, das our BAC One-Eleven ]lQh in service, one on lease to Air Congo flown are from Helsinki to Tampere andLappeenranta. Charters have been flown to Africa, North and South America and tothe Far East. Head Office: Lonnrotinkatu 3, Helsinki12, Finland. Executives: President, T. Karhumaki;administration manager, K. Sipila; technical manager, K. Nurmi; purchasing manager,V. Kiviaho; sales manager, A. Gronlund. Employees: 135.Fleet: Three DC-6B, one Convair 440, three DC-3, one Lodestar. Kingdom of Libya Airlines is the whollyGovernment-owned national airline of Libya formed in September 1964. Opera-tions were begun in October 1965 and absorbed Nord Africa Aviazione Spa(Libavia) and United Libyan Airlines on the same date. International services werebegun from Tripoli and Benghazi, and now serve Rome, Paris, Cairo, Athens, Tunis,Geneva, London, Malta, Beirut. In March 1966 an operating agreement was concludedwith the Italian airline ATI, whereby two F.27s are used on internal "Air Bus" ser-vices. A Lear Jet is operated on executive and VIP charters. Head Office: PO Box 360, Benghazi,Libya. Executives: Chairman, Hashem el Abbar;general manager, E. T. Johnson; com- mercial manager, A. J. Jackman: chiefaccountant, W. H. Suckling; chief pilot, Capt J. M. Francois. Employees: 260.Fleet: Two Caravelle 6R, two W.27, one Lea Jet 23. On order: One caravelle 6R. King Flight Services inc operate scheduledcommuter air services between Wichita Falls and Abilene, Texas, under the name KingAirlines. Operations were begun in Febru- ary 1965. Head Office: PO Box 809. Wichita Falls,Municipal Airport, Texas, USA. .Executives: President, Charles King;vice-president, George R. Clerihew. Meet: One Aero Commander 680, oneAPache, one Cherokee Six, one Cherokee. KLM (Koninklijke Luchtvaart Maats-chappij XV), the Netherlands national air- "w, began operations in May 1920. AEuropean network was established and ser- *«-es to Java began in 1929. Services were mm" "* the West IndieS in 1935 and thesemm thr°u8hout the war, enabling the ramnany to claim 48 years of continuousoperauon With a present unduplicated Km -mileaBe of nearly 135,000 miles,and nas a network of European routes, - r?utes between Europe and North,•rai and South America: North and raw jnca: the Near, Middle and Farto fi fi and Australia. Altogether KLM flies comn coilntrie?- Approximately 51% of theGnv y s caP'tal is now held by the Dutch int(.r»r?ment> and the remainder by privateAIM tr Wholly-owned subsidiaries are zee xi r Aerocarto NV, KLM Noord-25o/ "el'c9Pters, and NLM; there is also a Head nre8 k Martin's Air Charter. , Nethefland CC: 1 Plesmanwe£> T^ Hague, Executives: President, Dr G. van der cutiv'e ^DUty P.resident, F. Besancon: exe- J LUV e"Presidents, J. A. van de Kamp, ^inkes general secretary, H. J. Borel El*»pioyees: 13,800. Fleet: One DC-8-63, seven DC-8-33,seven DC-8-53, one DC-8-55, three DC-8- 55F, six DC-9-15, four DC-7F, 11 Electra.On order: Six DC-8-63, 14 DC-9-30, three Boeing 747. On option: Three Boeing SST. Kodiak Airways Inc operates three routeswithin Alaska from Kodiak to Lazy Bay, Karluk and Port Williams. Head Office: PO Box 2457, Kodiak, Alaska, USA. Executives: President, R. L. Hall; secre- tary/treasurer, Helen Hall. :Employees: 28. Fleet: Three Goose, three Widgeon, oneSuper Cub. Korean Air Lines formed in June 1962 tosucceed the privately owned Korean National Airlines (founded in 1947), iswholly owned by the Government of the Republic of Korea. Domestic operationswere started in December 1962. A service from Soeul to Osaka was started in March1964. KAL also serves Fukuoka and Saigon, Tokyo, Taipei and Hong Kong, and is nowawaiting CAB approval to start Seoul- Tokyo-Washington service with ex-FlyingTiger L-L049H acquired during 1966. Head Office: 64-5, 2 Ka, Choongku-Roo,Seoul, Korea. Executives: President, Sug Hwan Chang.Executive vice-president, Kak Soon Lee; Vice-presidents: Bock Hyeon Lee (opera-tions, Ke Chin Kim (traffic and sales), Chul Cho Kim (finance).Employees: 305. Fleet: One DC-9-30, one L-1049H, oneDC-4, five F.27, two DC-3. Kuwait Airways Corporation was foundedin 1953 at Kuwait National Airways, adopt- ing the present title in 1958. BOAC tookover the technical management of Kuwait Airways in June 1958, and in September1959 British International Air Lines, a wholly owned BOAC subsidiary in Kuwaitthat provided charter and maintenance ser- vices was taken over by Kuwait Airways.The Kuwait Government having acquired all Kuwait Airways shares, the companybecame a Government concern on June 1, 1963. Kuwait Airways operates serviceswithin the Middle East and to Karachi. Bombay, Cairo. London via Cairo, Beirutand Geneva, Paris or Frankfurt. Trans Arabia Airways merged with Kuwait Air-ways in April 1964. Certain Trident services for Gulf Aviation are also operated. Head Office: PO Box 394. Kuwait.Executives: Chairman, Faisal Al-Fulaij; managing director, Jassem Yousef Al-Marzook; general manager, Abdul Rahman Al-Mishri: commercial manager, AdliDaiani; operations manager, Capt R. S. Colvin; chief accountant, Nizar AbuGha^alah; purchasing manager, Khalid Al- Breikan; chief pilot, Capt E. Pridmore. Employees: 1,218.Fleet: Three Comet 4/4C, two Trident IE, two Twin Pioneer. On order: ThreeBoeing 707-320C. Lachlan Valley Farm Services Pty Ltd isa taxi and charter operator licensed to operate third-level services to many pointspreviously served by East-West Airlines. Head Office: PO Box 268, Cowra, NewSouth Wales. Executives: General manager, E. A.West; financial manager, R. W. Allen; director, C. E. Miller. Fleet: Two Cherokee Six, one Cessna172. On order: One Bonanza. LADE—see Lineas Aereas del Estado. Ladeco—see Linea Aerea del Cobre Ltda. Lake Central Airlines Inc began operationsin November 1949 and serves 4,275 miles of routes in ten states and the District ofColumbia. The airline's network extends from Washington, DC, and Baltimore onthe east coast to St Louis, Missouri, pro- viding air service to 51 cities in a highlyindustrialised area. St Louis, Missouri, was added to the system in 1967. Lake Centralis to merge with Allegheny subject to CAB and shareholder approval under the title ofAllegheny Airlines. Head Office: Weir Cook Airport, India-napolis, Indiana, USA. Executives: Chairman, Robert LeBuhn;president and chief executive officer, L. Thomas Ferguson. Vice-presidents: opera-tions, R. W. Clifford; customer services, James Dickie; marketing, C. P. Harlow:legal and economic development, A. David Mikesell; finance, H. L. Pfrang (alsotreasurer); secretary, W. H. Krieg; con- troller, William Toates; director-purchasing,V. T. Salazar. Employees: 1,285.Fleet: Ten Convair 580, 12 Nord 262. On order: Two Boeing 727-15, three 737-15QC. Laker Airways Ltd was formed in February1966 as a contract-hire and ad hoc charter operator, and a good deal of IT and groupcharter work is undertaken. Full operations began during March 1967. A VCIO is onlease to MEA for 15 months beginning January 1, 1968, and a One-Eleven is onlong-term lease to Air Congo. Head Office: London Airport, Gatwick,Surrey. Executives: Managing director, F. A.Laker; director purchasing/services, C. Nunn; technical director, W. F. Townsend:operations manager, L. V. E. Atkinson: commercial manager, G. W. Forster; chiefpilot, Capt A. Hellary. Fleet: One VC10 leased to MEA, fourBAC One-Eleven 320 (one leased to Air Congo), two Britannia 102. LAN-Chile (Linea Aerea Nacional de Chile)was founded by the Chilean Government on March 5, 1929. Originally known as LineaAeropostal Santiago-Arica, it took its present name in 1932 when it became anautonomous State entity. LAN has de- veloped services throughout the length ofChile, and now operates over international routes to Montevideo in Uruguay, Mendozaand Buenos Aires in Argentina, Lima in Peru, Guayaquil in Ecuador, Panama andMiami. LAN has recently acquired from Lufthansa a Boeing 707-330B and thisentered service on April 15, 1967, inaugura- ting a new route to New York. Once-monthly DC-6 services to Easter Island are also operated.Head Office: Los Cerrillos Airport, Santiago, Chile.Executives: Chairman and president, Eric Campana Barrios; vice-presidents: opera-tions, Pedro Gasc Opazo; finance, Hector Sauvegeot; traffic, Santiago Faz; engineer-ing, Jorge Hofer. Employees: 2,615.Fleet: One Boeing 707-330B, three Cara- velle, three HS.748, ten DC-6A/B, 11 DC-3,
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