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484 FLIGHT International. 26 March 1970 Holiday Airlines operates four Lockheed Electros WORLD AIRLINES 1970 . . . S. H. Kennard: commercial manager. A. G. Martins. Employees: 340. Fleet: Four DC-3, two Twin Otter, one Goose, one Cessna 310G. Hawaiian Airlines Inc was founded in January 1929 as Inter-Island Airways. The Inter-Island Steam Navigation Co held 76% of the original stock, services were begun in November 1929 and Sikorsky S-38C amphibian birjlanes were used. S-43 mono plane amphibians entered service in 1935. The present title was adopted in 1941 and it was in this year that DC-3s were first intro duced. The airline's services link Hawaii. Maui, Lanai, Molokai, Kauai and Honolulu (on Oahu Island). Many inter-island freight services are operated. Hawaiian was the first i American scheduled carrier to employ all-cargo aircraft on freight services (S-43 amphibians were used). DC-6s and DC-3s were replaced in 1966 when a $15m re- equipment programme with DC-9s and Convair 640s was completed. One Convair is in an all-cargo configuration and another is a passenger/freight convertible aircraft. Early in 1970 a merger was proposed be tween Hawaiian and Aloha Airlines. The new airline, to be called Hawaiian-Aloha Airlines, would be owned 51% by Hawaiian and 49% by Aloha. Head Office: Honolulu International Air port, Hawaii. USA. Executives: President, John H. Magoon Jr; executive vice-president, Jack C. Tobin: vice-presidents: operations. Lionel D. Maohado; overseas division, Clem Akina Jr; customer services, Raymond P. Tuthill: administration/assistant secretary, A. G. Cole: sales, Stanley C. Kennedy; treasurer. John J. Higgints. Secretary. Vernon O. Bortz. Employees: 1,000. Fleet: Two DC-9-10. three DC-9-30, eight CV-640. Hebridair (Societe Neo-Hebridaise de Trans ports Aeriens SA) was formed in 1964 to operate charter services within the New Hebrides Islands. During 1966 the company entered into a joint operating agreement with New Hebrides Airways under the name Air Melanesiae. Hebridair contributed its sole Dornier Do28 to the operation. Head Office: Port Vila. New Hebrides. South Pacific. Holiday Airlines lnc operate scheduled pas senger air services on the route beween Hollywood-Burbank, Oakland. San Jose and Lake Tahoe. Scheduled services began in 1965 as an air taxi company, but opera tions as an intra-state carrier have been authorised since 1967. A route extension to include Los Angeles has been applied for. Head Office: PO Box 2523. Oakland International Airport. Oakland, California 94614, USA. Executives: President, Conn Frank: vice- president sales. Raymond F. Pritchard: vice-president operations, Phil H. Browne: vice-president maintenance. John P. Hall- man: treasurer. Gene Burk. Employees: 65. Fleet: Four L-188 Electra. Hutchison International Ltd was formed early in 1970 to operate services from the Harcourt Road helipad to Kai Tak Airport. Hong Kong. Operations are scheduled to begin in the summer. Head Office: Kai Tak International Air port, Hong Kong. Executives: Chairman, Col J. D. Clague: managing director. Maurice Holloway. Fleet: On order: Two Alouette III. Iberia (Lineas Aereas de Espana SA) was formed in 1927. Originally the Spanish Government owned 51 % of the capital, with other Spanish interests and Deutsche Luft hansa holding the other 49%. All stock was subsequently acquired by the Government and the airline is controlled through the State-owned Instituto Nacional de Industria. Iberia began as a domestic operator, but has in addition to its domestic services. others to the principal cities in Western Europe and to London, Manchester, Bir mingham, Glasgow and Dublin. Long-haul services are operated to South and Central America, Africa and the USA. Aviaco is a subsidiary of Iberia. Head Office: Velazquez 130. Madrid 6. Spain. Executives: President. Emilo de Navas- ques: director general. Lazaro Ros Espana: secretary general, Juan Viniegra: commer cial director, Mariano de las Penas: economic and financial director. David Fer nandez Vegue: director, flight operations. Luis Davila: technical director, Enrique Alvarer de la Brana; personnel director. Jose Gaspar G. Palenzuela: purchasing, J-M Varas. Employees: 9,898. Fleet: Three DC-8-63. one DC-8-63F, six DC-8-50. one DC-8-55F, 18 DC-9-30, 13 Caravelle 6R, six Caravelle 10R. two Cara- velle 11R. eight Fokker F.27. one F.28, 13 CV-440, three DC-3, one DC-4. On order: Two DC-8-63, six DC-9-30, three Boeing 747-156, two F.28. On option: Three Boeing SST. Icelandair (Flugfelag Islands HF) was formed in Akureyri as Flugfelag Akureyrar and commenced operations with a Waco floatplane. Headquarters moved to Reykja vik 1940 and present name adopted. Inter national services inaugurated in 1945 with a Catalina seaplane. Jet operations com menced in 1967 between Reykjavik and Copenhagen. Glasgow. London and Oslo. F.27s operate to the Faroe Islands, Bergen and Glasgow as well as over a 13-point domestic network. Head Office: Baendahollin. Reykjavik. Iceland. Executives: Chairman, B. Kjaran; vice- chairman. B. Gislason: general manager. O. O. Johnson: secretary, S. Matthiasson: sales manager. B. Thorgilsson; traffic manager. E. Helgason: chief pilot, J. Snorrason: technical manager, Stefan Orn. Employees: 390. Fleet: One Boeing 727-108C. one Viscount 759. two DC-6B. two Fokker F.27. two DC-3. Icelandic Airlines (Loftleidir HF) formed on March 10, 1944. has operated services within Iceland and to EuroDean destinations, but since March 1952 has confined its activities to the deration of North Atlantic- services linking New York and Reykjavik to Glasgow, London, Luxembourg. Copen hagen, Gothenberg, and Oslo. Fares are below IATA economy rates, although the sectors east of Iceland have IATA agreed fares. In October 1969 Loftleidir, through its subsidiary Hekla Holdings, bought out International Air Bahama, following an agreement to collaborate on sales and pas senger handling signed in March 1969. Loftleidir propose to operate two DC-8s between Luxembourg and New York from April 1. Head Office: Reykjavik Airport. Iceland. Executives: Chairman, Kristjan Gud- laugsson; managing director Alfred Eliasson; operations director, Kristinn E. Olsen; traffic/sales director, Martin Peter sen : financial director. Finnbjorn Thor- valdsson; purchasing director, Gudmundur Vilhjalmsson; director, corporate planning, Johannes Einarsson. Employees: 1,000. Fleet: Four Canadair CL-44J. one CL-44D. On order: Two DC-8. Indian Airlines was formed as u Corpora tion in 1953, taking over the domestic and regional services previously operated by eight private airlines. Operations extend over the entire sub-continent, including Afghanistan, Nepal, Burma, Ceylon and the Andaman Islands, and are organised into four regions controlled from Delhi, Bom bay, Calcutta and Madras. Besides regular passenger and freight services, Indian Air line operate a night airmail service linking Bombay, Delhi, Calcutta and Madras. Head Office: Airlines House. 113 Gurud- wara Rakabganj Road, New Delhi, India. Executives Chairman, S. Mohadr Kumara- mangalon; general manager, K. T. Satara- wala: assistant general manager. B. Israni: director/engineering, A. H. Mehta: direc tor/planning, R. S. Bahadur. Employees: 13,178. Fleet: Seven Caravelle, 14 Viscount. 14 Fokker F.27, 12 HS.748, nine DC-3. -On order: Seven Boeing 737-200. 12 HS.748. Inex-Adria was formed to succeed Adria Airways of Jugoslavia as a charter and inclusive-tour airline. In addition to these services a scheduled domestic route was opened between Ljubljana and Dubrovnik and Ljubljana and Belgrade, in August 1969. Head Office: Ljubljana Airport. Jugo- Fleet: One DC-9-30. four DC-6B. On order: One DC-9-30. Interflug (Gesellschaft t'iir Intermit iunulen Flugverkehr nihil I is the airline of the GDR (East Germany) formed in 1954 as Deutsche Lufthansa, and renamed in September 1963. Interflug started operations in September 1955, but the first scheduled route was not inaugurated until February 4, 1956, between Berlin and Warsaw. Domestic services began in June 1957. International services are operated to Moscow. Warsaw. Prague, Budapest, Bucharest, Sofia. Zagreb, Bel grade, Tirana, Nicosia, Beirut, Cairo. Damascus. Baghdad, Algiers, and points in West Africa. Charter work is undertaken, and a separate division handles aerial agri culture and aerial work. In 1968 Interflug carried 731,700 passengers (260.270 on domestic services): the total is expected to double by 1975. In 1968, 15,800 tonnes of freight were carried : it is planned to increase this considerably. In 1968. 744.800 hectares were worked by agricul tural aircraft: the 1975 target is 1.85 million hectares. Head Office: Zentralflughafen. Berlin- Schonefeld, 1189. German Democratic Republic. Executives: Director general, Kurt Diede- rich: managing director, Eberhard Aschen- bach. Employees: 3,000. Fleet: 12 Ilyushin 11-18. six Antonov An-24, three Tupolev Tu-134, two 11-62. On order: Tu-154. Interior Airways Inc is an Alaskan pas senger and cargo charter operator which also operates a scheduled service between
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