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1336 FLIGHT International, 28 April 1979 ger and cargo services, radiating from Paris to most major cities in France. In 1977 Air Inter agreed with Air France to cease charter operations and received in return a 20 per cent holding in Air Charter International. Head Office: 1 Avenue du Marechal Devaux, F-91 550, Paray Vieille Poste, France. -^20624. Executives: president, Robert Verg-naud; director-general, Rene Lapautre; inspector-general, Jean Poirier; secre tary-general, Jacques Jourdet; directors: exploitation, Jacques Margot - Noble-maire; material, Daniel Gauvin; pro grammes/traffic. Gerard Brandeis; finance/administration, Francois Godest; sales, Louis Houis; social affairs, Jean Ivanoff; fleet planning, Georges Picchi. Employees: 4,818. Fleet: five Airbus A300B2, 10 Mercure 100, five Caravelle 12, 16 Caravelle 3, nine Fokker F.27-500. On order: one A300B2. Simulators: one LMT Caravelle 3, one LMT Mercure. Air Intergulf, a Gibca group company, was formed in September 1975 to operate air-taxi, and executive charter services from Sharjah International Air port. Cargo flights were authorised in July 1977 and began in 1978 to points in Europe, using Boeing 707/720s leased from the American company Jet Power. Services are now operated by a single 707-320C freighter leased from TMA. Head Office: PO Box 8, Sharjah, United Arab Emirates. yi" 68294. Executives: chairman, Abdul Rahman Bukhatyr; managing director, Zaki Shu-wayhat; general manager, Vincent J. Derudder. Employees: 15. Fleet: one Boeing 707-320C, Air Ivoire was founded in 1960 and began operations in August 1964. Sode- traf and Air Afrique held an interest in the airline until January 1976, when the Government of the Ivory Coast acquired a 100 per cent holding. Scheduled passenger services are operated from Abidjan to Bouake, Kor- hogo, Odienne, Daola, Man, Sassandra, San Pedro, Berebi, Tabou and Yamous soukro. Head Office: BP 1027, 13 Avenue Barthe, Abidjan, Ivory Coast. Executives: president, Victor Nia-cadie; director general, Martin Lodug- non: deputy d-g, Herve Prie; commer cial manager, Tah Kouakou; chief pilot, Capt Cholley. Employees: 50. Fleet: two YS-11A, three Fokker F.27-600, two Aztec. Air Jamaica (1968) Ltd was formed in October 1968 by the Jamaican Govern ment and Air Canada, which will re duce its original shareholding (40 per cent) to zero by 1980. Current govern ment holding is 74 per cent. Air Canada also provides technical and managerial assistance. Operations began on April 1, 1969, and scheduled passenger and cargo services now link Kingston and Mon- tego Bay with Nassau, Port-au-Prince, Grand Cayman, Miami, New York, Phila delphia, Chicago, Toronto, Frankfurt, London and Copenhagen (via Prest- wick). Head Office: 72-76 Harbour Street, Kingston, Jamaica. x^2389. Executives: chairman, John Cooke; president/managing director, Donald V. Richardson; vice-presidents: marketing/ customer services, Elton McKenzie; technical services, Capt L. Tai; corporate services, Will Rodgers; public affairs, John Scott; finance (acting), Franklyn Smith; directors: in-flight services, Maureen Abrahams; operational plan ning/charters, Mike Lazarus. Employees: 1,205. Fleet: two DC-8-61, one DC-8-62, four Boeing 727-200, three DC-9-30. Air Japan, a new passenger charter air line, was reported to be under forma tion during 1978. Jointly backed by Mitsui, Kokusai Kaihatsu (tour opera tor), and Japan Golf Promotion and possibly the Nihon Ryoko tour opera tor, Air Japan is expected to begin charter flights to points in the USA (including Hawaii) and Southeast Asia from base at Tokyo Narita International Airport during 1979, using a fleet of three DC-8s. Air Jugoslavia is a wholly owned sub sidiary of Jugoslovenski Aerotransport (JAT), 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. JAT aircraft are used as necessary. Head Office: Mose Pijade I/III, Bel grade 11000, Jugoslavia. .^12125. Executive: director, Aleksander Avejic. Air Kent, the operating name of Thanet European Air Services, was formed in January 1976 and currently awaits route licences to operate scheduled pas senger services linking the East Kent area with Brussels and Rotterdam. Base and headquarters will be at Man sion Airport; operations, using Navajo Chieftains or Herons, are expected to begin in September 1979. Shareholders in the new airline will include Marinair Travel Services of Broadstairs, Kent. Head Office: 52 High Street, Broad- stairs, Kent, Great Britain. ^965327. Executives: chief executive, Robin G. P. Paine; directors: David J. Ward; Christopher W. Elbourne; Michael Cardew. Air Lanka was formed on January 10, 1979, to succeed Air Ceylon as the national airline of Sri Lanka. Major shareholder is the government with 60 per cent, the remaining 40 per cent lying in the hands of public com panies in Sri Lanka. Scheduled passen ger and cargo operations linking Colombo with Karachi, Bahrain, Zurich, Paris and London to the west, and Bangkok, Kuala Lumpur and Singapore to the east are due to begin in Sep tember 1979. Singapore Airlines is pro viding management and technical assist ance to the new airline under contract. Head Office: Greater Colombo Econo mic Commission Building, 14 Sir Baron Jayatilleke Mawatha, Colombo 1, Sri Lanka. Executives: chairman, Capt Rakk-hitaa (SIA); managing director, Capt S. R. Wikramanayake; managers: general, K. Kulasegeran (SIA); opera tions, Capt B. S. Gurm; commercial, Colin Martinus; personnel, P. L. Choo. Employees: 322. Fleet: two Boeing 707-320C. Air Lao (Lao Aviation), the national airline of the People's Democratic Re public of Laos, operates scheduled pas senger services from Vattay Airport, Vientiane to Bangkok (once weekly) and Hanoi (three times weekly). Head Office: PO Box 119, L Pan Kham Road, Vientiane, PDR Laos. ^310. Fleet: one Viscount 700, four Antonov An-24V. Air Liberia was formed in January 1974 from the merger of Liberian National Airlines with Ducor Air Transport (Datco). LNA was originally formed in 1949 as Liberian National Airways and operations began in 1952. Air Liberia is wholly government-owned, and tech nical and management assistance is pro vided by British Caledonian Airways. Scheduled passenger and cargo services link Spriggs Payne Airport (Monrovia) with Robertsfield International Airport, Sinoe, Cape Palmas, Nimba, T'Chien, Voinjama, Foya, Wologissi, Grandcess and Sasstown. Charter passenger and cargo services are also operated to domestic and international points. Head Office: PO Box 2076, Monrovia, Liberia. ^"4298. Executives: president/general man ager, Leonard J. Crosbie; general man agers: marketing, John G. Rickman; operations, Jehu Richardson; engineer ing, Eric Fenton; chief accountant, Nigel Couch. Employees: 204. Fleet: one Boeing 737-200C, one HS.748, two Trislanders, three Islanders, one Cessna 402, two Cessna 337. Airlift International, formed in 1945 as Riddle Airlines, is certificated as a scheduled all-cargo carrier. In 1968 Air lift acquired the aircraft and assets of Slick Airways. Worldwide passenger and cargo charter services are operated within and from the US and Puerto Rico to points in Mexico, Nicaragua, Haiti, the Dominican Republic, Jamaica and Venezuela. Contract flights for the US military forces are also operated. Head Office: PO Box 480535, Miami International Airport, Florida 33148, USA.
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