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1973
1973 - 0740.PDF
438 WORLD AIRLINE SURVEY services from Blantyre to Karonga, Mzuzu, Lilongwe and Zomba, regional services to Beira, Johannesburg, Lusaka, Ndola, Salisbury and Nairobi. Head Office: PO Box 84, Chileka Inter national Airport, Blantyre, Malawi. Executives: Chairman, P. Howard; general manager, G. T. van Booyen; financial manager, J. T. Morrison; en gineering manager, K. H. Greager; operations manager, B. J. Casey; com mercial manager, L. J. Thome. Employees: 433. Fleet: One One-Eleven 475, two HS.748, two Viscount 700, two Islander. Air Mali (Societe Nationale Air Mali) was formed in October 1960 as the national airline of the Mali Bepublic. Operations began in 1961 with technical and equipment assistance from Aeroflot, aided by a gift of three ex-BEA DC-3s from the British Government. Air Mali operates scheduled passenger services from Bamako, the capital, to Abidjan, Aioun-el-Atro, Casablanca, Conakry, tor of personnel, Eugenio Jusi. Employees: 650. Fleet: Two Boeing 707-131, two Electra, nine Fairchild F-27, three Herald, eight DC-3, one Cessna 421, one Cessna 206. Air Mauritanie (Societe Nationale Air Mauritanie) was formed in September 1962 as the carrier of the Bepublique Islamique de Mauritanie. Scheduled domestic services are operated from Nouakchott and Nouadhibou together with international routes to Dakar, Las Palmas and Casablanca. Head Office: BP 41, Nouakchott. Mauritanie. Executives: Director-general, Ahmed Ould Bah; assistant director, Mamadou Kane; commercial director, Jacques Drouelle; assistant manager, A. Boba; financial manager, Sidi Ould Zein. Employees: 170. Fleet: One 11-18, one DC-4, three DC-3, one Navajo. Air Mauritius Ltd was formed on June 14, 1967, by the Mauritius Government (35% shareholding), British Airways Associated Companies (24%), Air France An Air Manila International 707, leased from Pan American and sub-leased to Egyptair Freetown, Gao, Goundam, Kayes, Ken-eiba, Monrovia, Mopti, Nara, Niamey, Nioro, Paris, Timbouctou and Yelimane. Head Office: BP 27, Bamako, Mali. Executives: General manager, A. G. Maiga; deputy general manager, Maussa Traore; commercial manager, B. Couli- baly; financial manager, A. Dembele. Employees: 529. Fleet: One Boeing 727-100, one Antonov An-24, one Ilyushin 11-18, three DC-3, two An-2. Air Manila Inc was originally founded in February 1964 by local interests. In December 1969 the airline was re organised and now operates scheduled passenger services from Manila Inter national Airport to 19 points in the Philippine Islands and to Djakarta and Bali in Indonesia. In December 1972 Air Manila contracted with Trans World Airlines to provide advisory, manage ment and training services for three years. Two Boeing 707s were also acquired from TWA. Head Office: Manila International Airport, Pasay City, Manila, Philippine Islands. Executives: President/chief executive, Bodolfo Cuenca; chairman, Bicardo Silverio; executive vice-president/ general manager, Col Benato Barretto; v-p administration, Vivencio Alcasid; v-p finance, Nestar de la Merced; Chief Pilot, Capt Albert Macui; director of sales/service, Bernardo Henson; direc- (24%) and Sogers & Co Ltd (17%). Air Mauritius operates joint services with Air France between Mauritius and the French island of Beunion and a service in pool partnership with South African Airways between Mauritius, Durban and Johannesburg. Head Office: 1 Sir William Newton Street, Port Louis, Mauritius. Executive: Secretary, P. Boulle. Air Melanesiae is the same name under which New Hebrides Airways and Societe Francais Air Hebride jointly operate an integrated network of scheduled services throughout the New Hebrides Islands Anglo-French condo minium of the Pacific. Services are operated to Lamap, Norsup, Espiritu, Santo, Walaha, Longana, Lonorore, Ero-mango and Tanna from Port Vila, where the network connects with the UTA Caravelle service from Noumea and the Air Pacific service from Suva, Honiara, Nandi, and Port Moresby. New Heb rides Airways was originally formed in 1962 as a private company, but Qantas and British Airways Associated Com panies have since acquired a 25% hold ing in NHA, which owns three of the Islanders used by the consortium. The other two aircraft are the property of Air Hebride, a wholly-owned subsidiary of Union de Transport Aeriens. Head Office: PO Box 72, Hotel Vate Building, Bue Higginson, Port-Vila, New Hebrides Islands. Executives: Director, D. W. S. Bubie; chief pilot, Capt E. M. McKern; chief engineer, W. M. Stewart; accountant, O. W. Hegarty; traffic and sales super- FLIGHT International, 22 March 1973 visor, M. C. Giles; administration, B. Barley. Employees: 41. Fleet: Five BN-2A Islander. Air Micronesia Inc was formed in 1966 by the United Micronesian Development Association (51% stockholders), Conti nental Airlines (29%) and Aloha Air lines (20%) to operate scheduled inter-island services within the area encom passed by the US Trust Territory of the Pacific Islands, which includes the Mariana, Marshall and Eastern and Western Caroline Islands. Operations began in May 1968 over routes linking the Trust Territory with Honolulu, Guam, Nauru and Okinawa. An exten sion to points in the Gilbert Islands, the Ellice Islands and American Samoa has been authorised but not yet started. Head Office: PO Box 198, Saipan, Mariana Islands, US Trust Territory of the Pacific Islands 96950. Executives: Chairman, Hon Carlton Skinner; president, S. Robert Wyzen-beek; vice-president/secretary, G. E. Cotter; v-p/general manager, Donald Beck; vice-presidents: Alexander Damm, Isodoro Budimch; treasurer, Peter T. Craven. Fleet: Two Boeing 727-100C, one DC-6A/B. Air Mongol—see Mongolian Airlines. Air Naum was formed in 1970 by the Government of the island Bepublic of Nauru in the central Pacific. Operations began on February 14, 1970, with a six- month trial operation covering a fort nightly scheduled service linking Nauru with Brisbane via Honiara and Noumea, using a Dassault Falcon chartered from the Australian air-taxi company Busi ness Jets Pty of Melbourne. In Decem ber 1970 traffic rights were obtained for Melbourne in lieu of Brisbane, and in July 1971 authority was received to serve Majuro in the Marshall Islands and Tarawa in the Gilbert Islands. On January 29, 1972, the Falcon was re placed by a 40-seat Fokker F.28 owned by the Government of Nauru, operated by Air Nauru, crewed by Business Jets and maintained by Ansett Airlines of Australia. Frequency was also raised to twice-weekly and now operates be tween Melbourne, Brisbane (technical stop), Noumea, Honiara (technical stop), Nauro, Majuro and Tarawa. Head Office: Nauru Island, Central Fleet: One Fokker F.28-1000. Air New England Inc was formed in 1971 to operate scheduled commuter services from Boston to New York (La Guardia), New Bedford, Martha's Vine yard, Nantucket, Hyannis, Portland, Augusta, Waterville,* Lebanon, Mont- pelier and Burlington. CAB authority to operate 32-seat DC-3s was received in January 1972. Head Office: Logan International Air port, Boston, Massachusetts 02128, USA. Executives: President, Joseph C. Whit ney; vice-presidents: operations, George Parmenter; traffic/sales. Nelson B. Lee Jr; maintenance/engineering, David P. Long. Fleet: Four DC-3, four Twin Otter 200, four Beech 99. Air New Zealand Ltd was formed in 1940 as Tasman Empire Airways Ltd, a joint British-Australian-New Zealand company, to operate services linking New Zealand and Australia. In 1954 Britain withdrew and the company was jointly owned by New Zealand and Aus tralia. In 1961 the Government of New Zealand assumed full ownership and four years later, on April 1, 1965, the name was changed to Air New Zealand. International services link Auckland, Wellington and Christchurch with Pa peete, Honolulu, Los Angeles, Hong Kong, Singapore, Melbourne, Sydney, Brisbane, Norfolk Island, Noumea, Nandi
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