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1975
1975 - 0537.PDF
FLIGHT International, 20 March I97S 473 A. Brown; commercial manager, J. Buchanan. Employees: 290. Fleet: Six Fokker F.27. On order: Two F.27-500. Ansett Airlines of South Australia Ltd, is a division of Ansett Transport Industries, formed originally in New Guinea in 1927 as Guinea Airways. It now operates to four other points and to Broken Hill, New South Wales. A service is also operated from Adelaide to the Weapons Research Establishment at Woomera and charter flights are also undertaken. Head Office: Adelaide Airport, South Australia. Executives General manager, L. Connelly; secretary, C. A. Windrow; operations manager; Capt A. J. Crabb. Employees: 101. Fleet: Three Fokker F.27. Antillaanse LuchtvaartMaatschappij NV (ALM Antillean Airlines) was formed in 1964 to take over the services of the Caribbean Division of KLM, and operations began in August of that year. On January 1, 1969, ALM's major share holding was transferred from KLM to the Netherlands Antilles Government. A network of regional services is operated from Curacao and St Maarten to Caracas, Georgetown, Santo Domingo Maracaibo, Aruba, Bonaire, San Juan, Medellin, Barranquilla, Port of Spain, Kingston, Port-au-Prince, Paramaribo, Miami and New York. ALM took over Windward Islands Airways in December 1974. Head Office: Dr Albert Plesman Air port. Hato, Curacao, Netherlands Antilles. Executives: President, C. O. Yraus- quin; vice-presidents: marketing, Michael S. Kuiperi; finance, Dr H. J. van Haagen; operations, J. J. Bak; tech nical manager, J. Oxford. Employees: 752. Fleet: One DC-9-30, two DC-9-15, one Queen Air A80. On order: Two DC-9-30. Arabian American Oil Co (Aramco) has since 1947 operated its own aviation department based in Dhahran, Saudi Arabia, in support of its oil-drilling, producing and exploration activities. Approximately 50 per cent of the flights are scheduled. Head Office: Box 80, Dhahran, Saudi Arabia. Executives: Manager, aviation depart ment, P. A. Fleury; chief pilot, C. J. Lund; superintendent maintenance, J. G. Tatcomb; staff engineer, G. W. Gilmer. Employees: 130. Fleet: Three Fokker F.27, three DC-3, two twin Otter, two Gulfstream 2, one Super King Air, two Bell 205A, four JetRanger. On order: Three F.27-500 rough-field. Argo SA operates cargo and mail services to San Juan and Miami from points in Dominica. Head Office: Santo Domingo Airport, Dominica. Fleet: Two Curtiss C-46. Ariana Afghan Airlines Co Ltd, owned 51% by the Government of Afghanistan and 49% by Pan American, was founded in 1955. Scheduled services began in 1957 and now link Kabul with Amritsar, Delhi, Tashkent, Teheran, Beirut, Damascus, Istanbul, Frankfurt, Rome, Paris and London. Charter flights are also operated. Head Office: PO Box 76, Ansari Watt, Kabul, Afghanistan. Executives: President, HRH Sultan Mahmoud Ghazi; executive vice-presi dent, Charles H. Bennett; commercial director, Ehsan Gran; general sales manager, S. L. Sabharwal; comptroller, S. G. Hazrat; operations director, Aziz A. Malikyar; personnel director, Ali Mohammad Loynab. Employees: 680. Fleet: One Boeing 720B, two 727-100C. Arkia Israel Inland Airlines was foun ded in January 1950 by El Al and Histadrut, the General Federation of Labour, each having a 50% holding. Scheduled services are operated from Tel Aviv (Sde Dov and Ben-Gurion Air ports) and Jerusalem to Eilat, Ophir (Sharm-el-Sheikh) and Mount Sinai Airport (Santa Katarina). Charter ser vices are also undertaken. In 1972 Arkia acquired a 50% holding in the third-level and charter airline Kanaf- Arkia. Head Office: 88 Hahashmonaim Street, Tel Aviv, Israel. ^3831. Executives: Managing director, L. Bigon; assistant to managing director, S. S. Lerer; managers: operations/chief pilot, H. Agmon; administration, J. Yanay; finance, P. Paz; commercial, A. Spindler; technical, Y. Newfield. Employees: 340. Fleet: Six Viscount 800, four Herald. Aspen Airways Inc was formed in 1962 as an air-taxi company, but now oper ates intra-state scheduled services between Denver and Aspen, Colorado. Charter flights within the United States and to Mexico and Canada are also authorised, CAB approval to operate large aircraft was received in January 1966; in 1968 Aspen was approved as a scheduled air carrier and has since dropped its air-taxi operation. mmm Head Office: 8685 Mountview Boule vard, Denver, Colorado 80220, USA. Executives: Owner, J. W. Ringsby; chairman, Hans Kaer; president, Gerald B. Hickman; vice-president sales, Edwin A. Nelson; operations director, Capt Adolf H. Huettner: chief pilot, Capt Paul M. Haines. Employees: 70. Fleet: Four Convair CV-440. ATI—see Aero Trasporti Italiani. Atlantic Central Airlines Ltd operates scheduled passenger services between Saint John, Bathurst (New Brunswick) and Bangor (Maine). Charters are also undertaken. Head Office: Saint John Airport, New Brunswick, Canada. Executives: President, R. L. Galbraith; secretary, W. V. Spear; treasurer, K. E. Galbraith; general manager, J. L. LeBlanc. Employees: 5. Fleet: Two DC-3, one Seneca, one Aztec, one Comanche. Austin Airways Ltd was founded in 1934 and is the oldest continuously op erated airline in Canada. Scheduled services link Timmins with Sudbury and Moosonee and a number of other communities in the Sub-Arctic, together with extensive charter, aerial photo graphy, air survey and forest fire patrol work in North Ontario and northwest ern Quebec. Austin was acquired by the Deluce family, owners of White River Air Services, in January 1975. Head Office: Box 1160, Timmins Air port, Ontario, Canada. *• 077-81551. Executives: President/general mana ger, Stan Deluce; operations superinten dent, J. C. Bell; maintenance supt, R. Seaton; chief pilot, S. H. Rynuik; sec retary, S. Szafran. Employees: 105. Fleet: Two PBY-5 Canso, seven DC-3, three Anson, one Cessna 402, four Otter, five Beaver, one Cessna 180. Austral Lineas Aereas (ALA) was formed in June 1971 by the merger of Austral Compania Argentina de Trans-portes Aereos, and Aerotransportes Litoral Argentino (ALA). The original Austral was formed in 1957 and began scheduled services in 1958. In 1966 Aus tral acquired a 30% interest in ALA and the companies have operated in tegrated services from that time. ALA was formed in 1957 as an air-taxi com pany, and reorganised in 1958. Pan American acquired a 22% interest in 1965 in return for supplying DC-3s to ALA. Austral Lineas Aereas operates scheduled regional services to Monte video (Uruguay), together with a 24-point domestic network in the Argent ine. Passenger and cargo charters and inclusive-tour flights are also operated to Bariloche, Tucuman, Salta and Jujuy. Head Office: Florida 234, 5 Pisb, Buenos Aires, Argentina. ^ 012-1219. Executives: President, William J. Rey- nal; executive directors: financial, Juan Bautista Pena; commercial, Felix de Barrio; administration, Leonardo Doug las Steed; operations, Santiago Posa das; public relations/advertising, Pedro Saiz Miramon. Employees: 1,400. Fleet: Four One-Eleven 500. four One- Eleven 400, three YS-I1A, one C-46, one DC-6. Austrian Airlines (Osterreichische Luft-verkehrs AG) was formed in Septem ber 1957 by a merger of Air Austria and Austrian Airways, neither of which had started operating. Services began in April 1958. AUA is now owned 99% by the Austrian Government. Scheduled passenger and cargo services are operated from Vienna, Graz, Linz, Klagenfurt and Salzburg to major points in West Germany, Switzerland, Scandinavia, France, the United King dom, Italy, Netherlands, Romania, Jugoslavia, Greece, Bulgaria, Turkey, Lebanon, Israel, Poland, Hungary, Czechoslovakia, East Germany and the Soviet Union. In September 1973 the airline resumed long-haul operations with a cargo service to Hong Kong ill: ^^^B^^H
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