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470 WORLD AIRLINE DIRECTORY FLIGHT International. 20 March 1975 Air Trans Africa (Pvt) Ltd was formed in August 1965 to operate passenger and cargo charter services in southern and central Africa from Salisbury. Afro- Continental Airways is a subsidiary. Head Office: PO Box 655, Salisbury, Rhodesia. -""RH2188. Executives: Managing director, J. M. Malioch; operations manager, J. Blanchard-Sims. Fleet: One Heron. Air Vietnam was founded in 1951 to take over the domestic and regional ser vices previously operated by Air France. The Vietnamese Government holds 92-75% of the stock and Air France 6%, reduced from 25% in October 1968. Air Vietnam Hies domestic services plus routes to Laos, Khmer (Cambodia), Formosa, Japan, Philippine Islands, Singapore, Malaysia, Hong Kong and Thailand. Head Office: 27B Phan-dinh-Phung, Saigon, South Vietnam. Executives: Chairman, Tran-Van-Vien; president, Nguyen-Tan-Trung; vice- president, Phan-Luong-Quang; commer cial director, Nguyen-Xich-Hao; financial director, Tran-Ngoc-Trinh; operations director, Vu-trung-Nam; technical direc tor, Nguyen-tranh-Diep. Employees: 3,200. Fleet: One Boeing 707-331, one 727-100, one Caravelle, six DC-4, seven DC-3, one Cessna 185, two Cessna U206. Air Viking, formed in March 1974 as a subsidiary of the Sunna Travel Bureau, operates inclusive-tour and passenger charter services from Ketlavik. Head Office: Aoalstraeti 9, Reykjavik, Iceland. ^"2061. Employees: 32. Fleet: Two 720B. On option: Two 720B. Air Volta was formed in 1967 with the assistance of 'UTA and Air Afrique. Scheduled domestic services are operated between Ougadougou and Bobo Dioul. Head Office: BP116, Avenue Binger, Ougadougou, Volta Republic. Executive: Managing director, R. Min-guez. Employees: 10. Fleet: One Navajo, one Cherokee Six. Airways (India) Ltd was formed in Sep tember 1945 as a public limited company and operated scheduled services until 1953. It now undertakes charter opera tions, mainly to Assam and North Bengal. Head Office: 31 Chittaranjan Avenue, Calcutta 12, India. Executives: Director, K. K. Roy; chief pilot, Capt P. B. Bose. Employees: 126. Fleet: three DC-3. Air Jugoslavia is a wholly-owned sub sidiary of Jugoslav Air Transport, formed in the late 1960s to operate charter flights mainly to areas where numbers of Jugoslav emigrants are to be found, such as Australia and the USA. Head Office: Mose Pijade I/HI, Bel grade 11000, Yugoslavia. Executives: See Jugoslav Air Trans port. Fleet: Two Boeing 707-320C, three Caravelle. Air Zaire, known until October 1971 as Air Congo, was formed in June 1961 as the national airline of the Congo, since renamed Zaire. Major shareholders are the State with 80%, Institut National de Securite Social 8% and the Caisse d'Epargne du Zaire 8%; the remainder is held by other institutions. Technical assistance is provided by Pan American under contract. An extensive network of scheduled passenger and cargo ser vices is operated to domestic points from Kinshasa and Lubumbashi, together with international services to Abidjan, Libre ville, Douala, Lagos, Lome, Conakry, Dakar, Bangui, Bujumbura, Kigali, Entebbe, Nairobi, Dar-es - Salaam, Ndjamena, Athens, Rome, Geneva, Paris, Madrid, Brussels and Luanda. Head Office: 4 Avenue du Port, Kinshasa, Republic of Zaire. Head Office: BP10120, Avenue du Port, Kinshasa, Republic of Zaire. ^^293. Executives: General manager, Claude Hutt; assistant general manager, Ngoie Kamakanga; directors: operations, Capt J. Bigeolw; technical, E. Mix; legal, Bongo Bolokama Ngila; commercial, J. P. Soandjoglou; finance, P. Panzella; planning, Kalisa Mihigo; administration, Kalombo Kabundi Lukusa; public rela tions, Kamosi Lulungu. Employees: 4,500. Fleet: One Boeing 747-100, two DC-10-30, two DC-8-63F, two DC-8-30, three Boeing 737-200, two Caravelle 11R, eight Fokker F.27, six DC-4. Alaska Airlines Inc adopted its present title in 1944, having been founded in 1937 as Star Air Lines. The present air line is an amalgam of several smaller carriers, the most recent mergers being Alaska Coastal and Cordova Airlines in 1968. Alaska Airlines operates a network of scheduled passenger and cargo routes linking the lower United States (Seattle) with Alaska, plus intra-state services to Anchorage, Fairbanks, Junea, Ketchi kan, Sitka, Wrangell, Petersburg, Yakatua, Cordova, Glacier Bay, Valdez, Nome, Unalakleet and Kotzebue. Charter flights are also undertaken. Subsidiary companies operate hotel and leisure activities including the Alyeska ski resort. Head Office: Seattle-Tacoma Inter national Airport, Seattle, Washington 98158, USA. •^32-8723. Executives: Chairman/chief executive, Ronald F. Cosgrave; president, O. F. Benecke; senior vice-presidents: market ing, Harold J. Salfen; properties, Bruce R. Kennedy; finance, Ross W. Anderson; v-p industrial relations, Robert E. Gray: v-p public/governmental affairs, James A. Johnson; v-p maintenance/engineer ing, Gus Robinson; staff v-p flight opera tions/chief pilot, Warren Mctzger; assis tant v-ps: corporate planning, Don Cowan; general sales manager, Dean Weidner; services, Bruce McNally; Alaska customer services, Robert Dodd; Alaska, Richard Shephers. Employees: 1,500. Fleet: Four Boeing 720, five 727-100C, two Twin Otter. Alaska International Air Inc (AIA) known until September 1972 as Interior Airways, was formed in 1946 to operate charter flights with light aircraft. During the 1960s the airline built its own airstrip at Sagwon, 350 miles north of Fairbanks, which has since become one of the busiest airports in the North Slope area of Alaska. Worldwide cargo flights are operated alongside scheduled services between Fairbanks, Sagwon and Prudhoe Bay. AIA is a wholly owned subsidiary of Alaska International Industries. Head Office: PO Box 60029, Fairbanks, Alaska 99701, USA. -^090-35454. Executives: Chairman, James S. Magoffin; president/chief executive, Neil G. Bergt; executive vice-president, George M. Kamats; v-p finance, Robert D. Heath; v-p administration, Roy L. Isaackson; v-p operations, Jean Robert; v-p maintenance, Raymond Brown; v-p international sales, Chris E. Chapman; v-p marketing/public relations, L. Ander son. Employees: 500. Fleet: Three L-100-30 Hercules, three L-100-20, two L-I00-10. On order: Two L-100-30. Alia Royal Jordanian Airlines is a wholly Government-owned national air line established in December 1963. Scheduled passenger and cargo services link Amman with Aqaba, Beirut, Cairo, Bahrain, Dubai, Muscat, Istanbul, Rabat, Nicosia, Jeddah, Dhahran, Kuwait, Doha, Abu Dhabi, Teheran, Karachi, Athens, Rome, Paris, Frankfurt, Madrid, London and Copenhagen. Extensions are planned I
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