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484 WORLD AIRLINE DIRECTORY FLIGHT International. 20 March (975 mm m f7.tr, Tf'*"r* Mgg$BMmm y'jiTiP1. r "^ ':^w^llllllllf riv-x- &. ii.. ... 3i work of domestic services is operated linking Manchester, Newcastle, Bristol, Cardiff, Liverpool, Carlisle, Leeds, Glas gow, Birmingham, Bournemouth and Luton. International routes served are from Gatwick to Berne, Ostend, Cler mont-Ferrand, Montpelier and Perpig-nan; Bristol, Cardiff, Liverpool, Tees- side to Amsterdam; Newcastle to Kris-tiansand, Stavanger and Bergen; and Lydd to Beauvais. Services to the Channel Islands are run from Lydd, Gat wick, Bournemouth and Swansea. Main engineering base is at Lasham, Hamp shire. Head Office: Bilbao House, 36-38 Broad Street, London EC2. •»-888973. Executives: Chairman, F. E. F. New man; managing director, A. J. Snudden; deputy managing director. F. Horridge; financial director, B. M. O'Regan; sales director, F. G. Tapling; operations manager, E. Bristow; chief pilot, Capt B. Atkins. Employees: 2,000. Fleet: Two Boeing 707-321. 10 Comet, five Boeing 727-100, four One-Eleven 500, three One-Eleven 400, two One- Eleven 300, seven HS.748. Simulators: Boeing 727, Comet 4. Darbhanga Aviation is a private Indian non-scheduled airline owned by the Maharajadhiraj of Darbhanga. Opera tions were started in 1950 and include charters. Head Office: 42 Chowringee Boad, Cal cutta 16, India. Executives: Directors: Durganand Jha; K. Jha Girinda Mohan Misra. Fleet: Two DC-3, one Bonanza. Delta Air Lines Inc, founded in 1925 as the world's first cropdusting com pany, started passenger services in 1929. In May 1953 Chicago and Southern Air Lines (founded 19331 merged with Delta and in August 1972 with North east Airlines of Boston (also founded 1933). The resulting network of sched uled passenger and cargo services spans the nation from the East to West Coasts, the Midwest to the Gulf of Mexico, and from Maine to Florida, with international routes to Canada, Bermuda, the Bahamas, San Juan, Mon- tego Bay, Maracaibo and Caracas. Delta's 33,758-mile route system serves 90 cities. Head Office: Hartsfield Atlanta Inter national Airport, Atlanta, Georgia 30320, USA. Executives: Chairman/chief executive, W. T. Beebe; president, D. C. Garrett; senior vice-presidents: personnel, R. W. Allen; operations, H. T. Fincher; general counsel/secretary, R. S. Maurer; mar keting, J. A. Cooper; finance/treasurer, Robert Oppenlander; operations/passen ger services, H. L. Harris. Employees: 28,300. Fleet: Four Boeing 747-100, five DC- 10-10, 18 TriStar, 13 DC-8-61, 21 DC-8-51, 50 Boeing 727-200, five 727-100, 65 DC-9- 30. On order: 12 TriStar, 37 727-200. Simulators: TriStar, DC-9-30, 727, DC-8. Delta Air Transport NV was formed in 1966 to operate air-taxi and charter ser vices and is a subsidiary of Compagnie Maritime Beige. Scheduled passenger services are operated linking Brussels and Antwerp with Amsterdam, together with charter flights to points in Europe and North Africa. Head Office: Antwerp Airport, B-2100 Deurne, Belgium. Executives: President, F. Guinotte; general manager, Capt J. C. Pool; tech nical manager, P. Van Doorsselaer; commercial manager, M. Selderslaghs; chief pilot, Capt F. Dassen. Fleet: One Boeing 720, three DC-6B, five Convair CV-440. DETA—see Direccao de Exploracao dos Transportes Aereos. Deutsche Lufthansa AG—see Lufthansa German Airlines. Direccao de Exploracao dos Transportes Aereos (Deta) was organised in 1936 by the Government of Mozambique as a division of the Department of Railways. Harbours and Airways. Domestic ser vices are operated and international routes serve Durban, Johannesburg, Salisbury, Blantyre and Manzini (Swazi land). Head Office: Aeroporto Lourenco Marques, Mozambique. Executives: Director - general, F. A. Scares Seixas; director, A. N. de Azevedo; operations superintendent, Jorge Fernando Machado de Almeida; maintenance superintendent, Alvaro Jose Passos M o r g a d o; commercial manager, Joaquim Boura Lobo; chief accountant, Souto e Silva. Employees: 1,501. Fleet: Three Boeing 737-200, one 737- 200C, three Fokker F.27. Simulators: Boeing 737. Dominicana—see Compania Dominicans de Aviacon C por A. Donaldson Line (Air Services) Ltd, operating as Donaldson International Airways and a subsidiary of the Waver-ley Shipping group, ceased operations in August 1974 following the reposses sion of its four Boeing 707s by Continen tal Illinois, a Chicago banking group. Donaldson's operating licence was im mediately suspended by the Civil Avia tion Authority and formally revoked on September 24. The company has since been liquidated. DTA—see Transportes Aereos de An gola SARL. DTA Angola Airlines—see Empresa de Transportes Aereos de Angola (TAAG). East African Airways Corporation (EAA) was established in 1945 and began operations on January 1, 1946, as the joint airline of Kenya, Uganda and Tanzania. An extensive network of scheduled domestic services is operated within the three partner states of the East African Community, plus inter national services to Aden, Addis Ababa, Athens, Blantyre, Bombay, Bujumbura, Cairo, Copenhagen, Frankfurt, Karachi, Kigali, Kinshasa, London, Lourenco Marques, Lusaka, Mauritius, Mogadishu, Rome, Seychelles, Tananarive and Zurich. Passenger and cargo charters are operated by Simbair Ltd, a wholly owned subsidiary. Head Office: Sadler House, Koinange Street, Nairobi, Kenya. -^ 22518. Executives: Chairman, A. B. S. Kilewo; director-general, Col G. W. Toko; man agers: marketing, C. M. Britt; person nel/administration, A. G. Mutcshi; flight operations, Capt Trevor Hill; public relations, J. K. Mwai; controller finance, C. F. Nichols; chief engineer, F. A. Gillett; corporate secretary, Y. Rubama. Employees'. 4,700. Fleet: Four Super VC10, three DC-9-30, four Fokker F.27, five DC-3. Eastern Air Lines Inc was formed in 1926 as Pitcairn Aviation starting a mail service between New York and Atlanta in May 1928. In 1929 the company was acquired by North American Aviation, and in 1930 the name was changed to Eastern Air Transport Inc. In 1938 North American relinquished its holding and the company adopted its present title after some reorganisation. Several other airlines have been absorbed, in cluding New York Airways (1931), Ludington Air Lines (1933). Colonial Airlines (1956), Mackey Airlines (1967) and Caribbean Atlantic Airlines in 1974, giving Eastern access to Puerto Rico. Domestic services are operated to 94 airports in 28 states of the USA and the District of Columbia, and inter national routes serve points in Canada, Mexico, the Bahamas, Jamaica, the Virgin Islands and Bermuda. In 1961 Eastern inaugurated the Air-Shuttle, a no reservations, guaranteed-seat service operating between New York, Washing ton and Boston. Head Office: 10 Rockefeller Plaza, New York, NY 10020, USA. ^14-8314. Executives: Chairman /president, Floyd D. Hall; executive vice-presidents: general operations manager, Frank Bor- man; finance/administration, Charles J. Simons; senior vice-presidents: public affairs, Thomas B. McFadden; indus trial/personnel relations, William R. Howard; legal affairs, W. Glenn Harlan; marketing, Walter W. Hitesman Jr; v-p sales/service, Russell L. Ray. Employees: 32,469. Fleet: ' 29 TriStar, seven DC-8-61, 43 Boeing 727-200, 71 727-100, 72 DC-9-30, nine DC-9-10, 15 Electra. On order: 11 Simulators: TriStar, Boeing 727, DC-9. Eastern Provincial Airways Ltd (EPA) was originally formed in 1949 following a reorganisation of Newfoundland Aero Sales and Services of St John's and scheduled operations were begun in 1950. In 1963 EPA took over Maritime Central Airways. Following a redefini tion of the regional carrier's role in August 1969, Eastern Provincial routes now cover services from Montreal to Charlottetown, Halifax, Deer Lake, Stephenville, St John's, Wabush, Churchill/Twin Falls, Goose Bay, Gan der, Sydney, Moncton, Chatham, Charlo, Fredericton, Saint John, the Magdalen Islands and St Anthony in the Quebec and Atlantic Provinces. Head Office: PO Box 5001, Gander, Newfoundland, Canada. sT 016-43514. Executives: President, K. A. Miller; vice-president operations, M. B. Jones; v-p marketing, W. F. Gaudet; v-p main tenance, B. C. Jones; v-p finance, H. L. Wareham. Employees: 750. Fleet- Six Boeing 737-200, one HS.748. On order: Three DHC-7, one 737-200. East-West Airlines Ltd was formed in July 1947 and currently operates sched uled passenger and cargo services to 29 centres in New South Wales, Queens land, Victoria and the Northern Terri-
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