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FLIGHT International, 13 May 1972 Braathens South American and Far East Air Transport A/S (Braathens SAFE) was formed in 1946 by the Braathens shipping company to operate long-haul charters. A scheduled service to Hong Kong was operated from 1949 until 1954 when SAS took over the route. Charter flights are undertaken but the main effort is concentrated on a network of scheduled domestic services from Oslo to Stavanger, Kristiansand, Aalesund, Roros, Trondheim, Bergen, Farsund, Tromso and BodcS. Head Office: Ruselikkyn 26, Oslo, Nor way. Executives: Presidents: L. G. Braathen; B. G. Braathen; vice-presidents: sales, E. Froysaa; maintenance, A. E. Stange-land; finance, R. A. Klemetsen; admini stration, L. Humlen; operations, N. A. Ringdal. Employees: 1,100. Fleet: Four Boeing 737-205, five Fok-ker F.28, three F.27, two DC-6B. Brain & Brown Airfreighters Pty Ltd was formed in 1949 to operate cargo charters within Australia using Anson freighters. In 1960 DC-3s were added to the fleet and permission is currently being sought to re-equip with modern turboprop aircraft. The company is owned by W. L. Brown and Z. A. Brain. In February 1963 Brain and Brown started operating freight services be tween Melbourne and Tasmania for IPEC Air Pty Ltd and this operation continues. As from January 1, 1967, a subsidy was granted for the carriage of carcass meat from King Island to Mel bourne. Head Office: PO Box 67, Cheltenham, Victoria, Australia. Executives: Managing director, W. L. Brown; commercial manager, M. C. Seivers. Employees: 30. Fleet: Three DC-3, one Anson I. Braniff Airways Inc which operates under the trade name Braniff Interna tional was founded in its original form in 1928. On February 1, 1967, Braniff ab sorbed Pan American-Grace Airways (Panagra), adding four new South American cities to its routes, which now cover 28,876 miles in the USA, Mexico and South America. Braniff also operates MAC contract services. US domestic routes cover the central US from Minneapolis/St Paul to Texas and Louisiana; extending eastward to Tennessee, Washington DC and New York, from Texas to New Orleans, Tampa and Miami, and west to Denver, Seattle/Tacoma and Portland, and from five mainland cities in the south-east and south-west US to Hilo and Honolulu, Hawaii. South American routes from Miami, New York, Washington DC, New Orleans, Houston, Los Angeles and San Francisco to Panama City, Bogota, Cali, Guayaquil, Quito, Lima, Sao Paulo and Rio de Janeiro, La Paz, Asuncion, Buenos Aires and Santiago. Braniff also flies to Mexico City and Acapulco from the US via the San Antonio gateway. Head Office: Exchange Park, Dallas, Texas 75235, USA. Executives: Chairman/chief executive, Harding L. Lawrence; president/chief operating officer, C. Edward Acker; ex ecutive vice-president, John L. Casey; senior vice-presidents: contract services. Rex Brack; hotels, John Lees; corporate/ market planning, Russell Thayer; sales/ services, Walter Conrad. Employees: 9,500. Fleet: One Boeing 747-27, two 707- 327C. five 720-027, 13 727-27, 19 727-27QC, 12 727-227, seven DC-8-62. On order: three 727-227. On option: Three Con corde. Britannia Airways Ltd was formed in December 1961 under the name Euravia (London) Ltd and began commercial operations in May 1962, with a fleet of Constellations, under contract to Univer sal Sky Tours, then the principal share holder. In 1965 the company became a wholly owned subsidiary of the Thomson Supplement 7 Organisation. Passenger and cargo charters and inclusive-tour operations are undertaken. A programme of Caribbean inclusive-tours will be opera ted in 1972 using the Boeing 707s. A subsidiary company is Luton Aircraft Engineers Ltd. Head Office: Luton Airport, Luton, Bedfordshire, England. Executives: Chairman, Lord Thomas of Remenham; managing director, J. H. Sauvage; operations director, Capt D. H. Davison; sales director, R. B. Hor-lock; financial director, R. Muckleston; technical director, J. Little; commercial director, P. H. Swift. Employees: 750. Fleet: Two Boeing 707-320C, seven 737-200, two 737-200C. British Air Ferries Ltd (BAF) was formed in January 1963 as a result of merging Channel Air Bridge Ltd (founded in 1959) and Silver City Airways Ltd (founded in 1948). Both operated cross-channel vehicle and pas senger ferry services. The merged com-,'pany was known as British United Air Ferries until September 1967, when the present title was adopted. BAF was owned by Air Holdings Ltd until Octo ber 1971 when the company was taken over by Transmeridian Air Cargo of Stansted. Scheduled passenger, cargo and vehicle-ferry services are operated by Carvairs from Southend Airport to Le Touquet, Ostend and Rotterdam, with rail connections to Paris, Brussels and Amsterdam. A service to Basle operated by CL-44 is due to open in the spring of 1972, and Geneva may be added to the system later. Head Office: Municipal Airport, South-end-on-Sea, Essex, England. Executives: Chairman, T. D. Keegan; managing director, A. L. Macleod; general sales manager, D. R. Day; opera tions manager, A. Gallacher; financial controller, A. Sabin; directors: L. L. Orr, C. St George. Employees: 300. Fleet: Five Carvair, three Canadair CL-44. British Air Services Ltd was formed in March 1967 to control the affairs of its subsidiaries Northeast Airlines (then BKS) and Cambrian Airways, both of which became wholly owned in Novem ber 1967. Major BAS shareholder is BEA with 70%. Northeast and Cambrian Air ways retain their individual identities and operating autonomy over an exten sive network of scheduled services throughout Britain and Europe. Head Office: Hodford House, 17-27 High Street, Hounslow, Middlesex, England. Executives: Chairman/managing direc tor, C. A. Herring; deputy managing director, B. J. T. Callan; financial con troller, L. N. Norton; travel sales man ager, J. B. Latto; economic planning manager, R. J. Bull; technical planning manager, J. H. Cox. Fleet: see under Cambrian Airways and Northeast Airlines. British Airways Board (BAB) was established by the Civil Aviation Act 1971 to exercise control (including con trol of aircraft re-equipment policy) over the two British airline corporations, BEA and BOAC. One of the board's chief tasks set by the Government is to re view the activities of the airlines to see whether they are being conducted in the most efficient manner. A partial or complete amalgamation of the two airlines is one possibility being ex amined by BAB. Head Office: Airways House, Bucking ham Palace Rd, London SW1, England. Executives: chairman, David Nicolson; board members: Henry Marking; Keith Granville; Kenneth Wilkinson; Ross Stainton; Derek Glover (financial direc tor); Sir Arthur Norman; Peter Parker; Prof Sir Ronald Edwards; Sir Kenneth Keith; Stephen Wheatcroft; secretary: E. Johnson. .: , • I....'.''.''"' A 737-200 of Britannia Airways, top. Below it, one of British Air Ferries' three CL-44s. Immediately above is an example of British Caledonian's fleet of One-Elevens British Caledonian Airways Ltd (BCAL) was formed in October 1970 by the mer ger of British United Airways (itself the result of a 1960 merger) and Caledonian Airways (founded in 1961). The new airline was known as Caledonian/BUA until September 1971. British United Airways operated an ex tensive network of international and domestic scheduled services, while Caledonian specialised in passenger and cargo charters. The amalgamation of the two carriers has resulted in one larger airline with resources to compete effectively with the State airline cor porations and foreign flag carriers. Certain routes were transferred to British Caledonian from BEA and BOAC by the British Government in further ance of its policy for setting up a "second-force" airline. These routes in cluded London-Lagos/Kano/Accra and part of London-Paris. Services across the North Atlantic are due to be in augurated on April 1, 1973, with routes from Gatwick to New York and Los Angeles. The ATLB in February 1972 granted BCAL authority to operate on these routes for 15 years. An extensive network of scheduled services is cur rently operated to points in Europe, Africa and Latin America, together with world-wide passenger and cargo charters and inclusive-tour flights. Shareholders in British Caledonian Air ways include Airways Interests (Thorn-
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