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1969
1969 - 1817.PDF
564 WORLD AIRLINE SURVEY of information handling. P. M. R. Hermon. Employees.: 20.750. Fleet: 18 Boeing 707-436/465, five 707- 320C. 12 VC10, 17 Super VC10. On order: 12 Boeing 747-36. On option: Eight Con corde, six Boeing SST. British United Airways Ltd was formed in July 1960 from the amalgamation of the Airwork group of comoanies with Hunting-Clan interests. In 1968, British United be came a wholly-owned subsidiary of BUA (Holdings) Ltd, whose principal stock holders are the British and Common wealth Shipping Co (92%) and Eagle Star Insurance (8%). BUA operates passenger services from Gatwick Airport, London to Brazil, Uruguay, Argentina and Chile; to East, West and Central Africa; to the Canary Islands, Gibraltar, Malaga, Rotter dam, Amsterdam. Genoa, Palma, Ibiza and Paris; and Interjet services to Edinburgh, Glasgow and Belfast. BUA operates the Africargo service, the scheduled all-freight service between Europe and Africa. The airline also does a good deal of charter business, including numerous IT flights and the carriage of Service personnel and their families to five destinations in Germany. BUA manages Sierra Leone Airways and operates its internal and international ser vices. Head Office: Gatwick Airport, Horley. Surrey. Executives: Chairman, Hon A. Cayzer: deputy chairman/managing director, Alan Bnstow; director. J. A. Thomson; sales director, E. F. Bates: administrative direc tor, i. Bes: engineering director, W. A. Richardson; operations director, J. R. Side- botham; planning director, A. T. Pugh: financial director, A. F. Nickalls: directors. W. B. Caulfield, A. E. Lemon. Employees: 3,200. Fleet: Four VC10, nine One-Eleven 200. three Viscount 800. On order: Eight One-Eleven 500. British United Island Airways Ltd was formed in November 1968 from the merger of BUA(CI), British United (Manx) Air ways and Morton Air Services. BUIA is a wholly owned subsidiary of BUA(Holdings) Ltd and operates an extensive network of scheduled services linking bases at Gatwick, Southampton and Blackpool with the Isle of Man, Channel Islands. Ireland and France. An all-cargo service is also operated between Gatwick and Germany. Head Office: Gatwick Airport, Horley, Surrey. Executives: Chairman, Hon A. Cayzer: deputy chairman, J. A. Thomson; manag ing director, Alan Bristow; technical direc tor, W. A. Richardson; general manager, L. B. Elwin; assistant genera] manager, B. Bedford; secretary, H. Fost; operations manager, Capt B. Gardiner; engineering manager. W. Kerr: sales manager. R. Wyles; director, Major J. R. Riley. Employees: 600. Fleet: Seven Herald 200, four DC-3. three Heron. British West Indian Airways Ltd was a wholly owned subsidiary of BOAC until November 1, 1961, when the Trinidad Government acquired control, BOAC re taining a 10% holding. The company was originally organised in 1940 as one of the TACA group of companies. In 1947 British South American Airways acquired control of BWIA and this passed to BOAC when it took over BSAA. In 1949 BOAC took over British Caribbean Airways and merged its operations with those of BWIA. BWIA is now wholly owned by the Trinidad and Tobago Government and operates an exten sive network of services throughout the Caribbean including daily services to Miami, New York, Guyana and twice-weekly to Surinam. Leeward Islands Air Transport is a subsidiary of BWIA. Head Office : Kent House, Long Circular Road, Maraval, Port of Spain, Trinidad. Executives: Chairman, Sir Ellis Clarke: directors, D. Urgo, J. E. N. Scoon, G. Monies De Oca; general manager, R. D. Gallaway: assistant general manager, marketing, W. Girling: assistant general manager, engineering, M. Singh: assistant general manager, personnel/administration, J. Brady; financial comptroller, A. Tarn; sales and service manager. R. Simmons. Employees: 1,318. Fleet: Three Boeing 727. one 707, three Viscount 700. Broome Connty Aviation Inc, certificated in October 1964, currently operate scheduled commuter air services between Binghamton (New York) and Washington DC under the name Commuter Airlines. Head Office: Broome County Airport, Binghamton, New York, USA. Executive: President, Jerry Winston. Fleet: One Dumodliner, two Beech 18. six Aztec, one Twin Bonanza, three Chero kee. Brothers Air Services Co Ltd (Basco) was formed in 1966 to operate passenger and freight charter from Aden throughout the Middle East and Arabia. Future plans in clude the establishment of scheduled ser vices using jet equipment, and Basco has now been granted the traffic rights pre viously held by Aden Airways. A service linking Aden with Luxembourg was opened in November 1968. Head Office: Khormaksar Airport (PO Box 800), Aden. Executives: Chairman and managing director. Saved Zein A. Baharoon; assistant managing director, A. Baharoon; manager. A. A. Basahi; traffic superintendent, M. Marid: operations superintendent, Ahmed Nagi. Fleet: One DC-6B, six DC-3. Brussels Airways SA was formed in Sep tember 1967 and commenced charter and air taxi operations in May 1968. Principal All the aircraft of British United Island Airways, including the Herons, are now operating in a colour scheme similar to that of BUA FLIGHT Inttrnatianal, 10 April 1969 shareholder is the managing director. Head Office: 1 rue de l'Eveque, Brussels I, Belgium. Executives: Managing director, Air Cdre D. Mitchell; commercial director, R. Tjolle: operations manager, J. Spruyt. Employees: 14. Fleet: Three JetRanger. On order: One Dassault Falcon. Buker Airways Inc was founded in 1951 as an air taxi operator. In April 1966 the com pany received authority to operate scheduled commuter services linking North Springfield with New York and Boston. Head Office: New Springfield Airport. Vermont, USA. Executives: President, Harold W. Buker: vice-president, Larry A. Durocher. Fleet: One DC-3, one Lear Jet 24. four Beech 18. Bulair was formed during 1968 to operate charters and inclusive tours in collaboration with Balkan Bulgarian Air Transport, the State airline of Bulgaria. Head Office: Sofia Airport, Bulgaria. Fleet: Antonov An-12, Ilyushin 11-18. Bush Pilots Airways Ltd was formed in 1951 to operate charter and air ambulance flights in northern Queensland and flies charters over the whole of North and Western Queensland with bases at Cairns, Townsville, Mount Isa, Cloncurry, Norman- ton and Longreach. During 1957-60 a net work of scheduled routes was operated in northern Queensland. In 1967 BPA applied to operate third-level services from Cairns and Townsville. Head Office: Aeroglen, Cairns, Queens land, Australia. Executives: Chairman, H. S. Williams: general manager, R. H. Entsch. Fleet: Two Cessna 402, three Cessna 310, three Cessna 205, one Cessna 172. one Aztec. Cable Flying Services Inc began scheduled commuter air services on November 1, 1967, under the name Cable Commuter Air lines, and using two Beech 18s. The first of 15 Twin Otters, styled DHC-6 Cable Jet by the airline, entered service on April 1, 1968, and operate over an extensive net work of routes throughout southern Cali fornia. Frequent services link Los Angeles International Airport with Burbank, Colton. Palmdale, Santa Ana, El Monte, Santa Barbara, Santa Maria, Ontario, Oxnard/ Ventura, Palm Springs and Lake Havasu (Arizona). Other services link Ontario and Lake Havasu with Palm Springs. During the first year of operation Cable Com muter carried more than 120,000 passengers and a new route to Fullerton is planned for the future. Head Office: 1900 East A Street, Ontario, California 91762. USA. Executives: Chairman, William E. Myers; president, Roger B. Cable; vice-president, operations, Don Denney; vice-president, sales, Jerry Murrow; vice-president, advanced planning, Don Newell; vice-presi dent, passenger service, Gengiz Nazim: chief pilot, Capt J. Bird; public relations manager, Jim Lloyd. Fleet: Seven Twin Otter, two Beech 18, On order: Six Twin Otter. C-Air Inc operates scheduled commuter air services linking Los Angeles International Airport with Redlands and Riverside. An associated company, Carstedt Inc, has evolved a modification of the Dove known as the Jet Liner 600. First flown in Decem ber 1966 fitted with two Garrett TPE-331 turbo-props, the fuselage has been leng thened by 87in, allowing 18 passengers and two crew to be carried. Head Office: Long Beach Airport, Cali fornia, USA. Executives: President, Von Carstedt: assistant to president, Glenn St. George. Fleet: One Jet Liner 600, 16 DH Dove. Caledonian Airways (Prestwick) Ltd was formed in April, 1961, to carry out North Atlantic charter and scheduled services, also world-wide long-haul ad hoc charters with DC-7C. The first transatlantic charter
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