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1980
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FLIGHT international, 26 July 1980 281 World airline directory the remainder is held by other institu tions. Technical assistance is provided by Pan Am under contract. An extensive network of scheduled passenger and cargo services is operated to domestic points from Kinshasa and Lubumbashi, together with international services to Abidjan, Libreville, Douala, Lagos, Lome, Dakar, Bujumbura, Kigali, En tebbe, Dar-es-Salaam, Athens, Rome, Paris, London, Brussels and Madrid. Head Office: BP8552, Avenue du Port 4, Kinshasa 1, Republic of Zaire. • 293-194. Executives: president / director gen eral, Gen Molongya Mohikusa Moi Bong-eye; general counsellor, Bongo Bolo- k-ma Ngila; directors: operations, Wil liam Davies; technical, Viet Tan Nguyen; financial, P. Panzella; commercial, A. A. Ideman; administration, Rutagwenda Imena; marketing, Nicoletta. Employees: 5,278. Fleet: two DC-8-63CF, two DC-10-30, three Boeing 737-200C, five Fokker F.27-600. Simulator: On order: one CAE 737-200. Air Zimbabwe, under the name of Air Rhodesia, was formed by the Rhodesian Government on September 1, 1967 to succeed the Rhodesian segment of Central African Airways, dissolved at the end of 1967. In June 1979 the present name was adopted following a change by statute. Air Zimbabwe Rhodesia operates a network of sched uled domestic passenger and cargo ser vices Unking Salisbury with Bulawayo, Kariba, Wankie National Park, Victoria Falls, Gwelo, Fort Victoria and Buffalo Range, plus international services to Johannesburg, Durban, Blantyre, Lusaka and London. Head Office: PO Box API, Salisbury Airport, Zimbabwe Rhodesia. •EH 2441. Executives: chairman, B. Stringer; general manager, M. E. Eyett; managers: commercial, R. A. Weeden; operations, Capt F. A. R. Garner; engineering, H. Radnitz; planning, W. A. H. Scholefield; personnel, T. B. Gray; chief accountant, P. W. Bailey. Employees: 1,243. Fleet: three Boeing 720, one 707, five Viscount 700. Simulator: one Redifon One-Eleven. Alaska Airlines adopted its present title in 1944, having been founded in 1932 as McGee Airways. The present airline 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 interstate services to Anchorage, Fairbanks, Juneau, Ket chikan, Sitka, Wrangell, Peterburg, Yakatua, Cordova, Glacier Bay and Valdez. Charter flights are also under taken. Subsidiary companies operate hotel and leisure activities, including the Alyeska ski resort. Head Office: PO Box 68900, Seattle-Tacoma International Airport, Seattle, Washington 98188, USA. •32-8723. Executives: chairman/chief executive/ president, Bruce R. Kennedy; general counsel, Barry Maulding; senior vice- presidents: industrial relations, Robert E. Gray; finance, Willard Allan; main tenance/engineering, Gus Robinson; v-p corporate affairs/secretary, Keith Ken nedy; assistant v-ps: employee develop ment, Robert Putman; sales Alaska, William Mackay; market planning, Dean Weidner; maintenance/engineering, Jack Bracelen; controller, Donald Downs. Employees: 1,544. Fleet: four Boeing 727-200, four 727- 100, three 727-100C. Alaska International Air (AIA), formed in 1946, and known until 1972 as Interior Airways, is a wholly owned subsidiary of Alaska International Industries (ATI) of Fairbanks. Following the discovery of oil in Alaska in 1967, the airline changed its role from lightplane char ters to heavy cargo and has since stan dardised on the Hercules freighter. AIA now operates ad hoc and contract cargo operations throughout the world. A proposed merger with Overseas National Airways was abandoned early in 1977. Head Office: PO Box 60029, Fairbanks, Alaska, 99706, USA. • 090-35454. Executives: chairman, James S. Magoffin; president/chief executive, Neil G. Bergt; vice-presidents: operations, Garry White; finance, Robert D. Heath; directors: flight control, John England; operations, Jerry Church; marketing/ sales, Oliver Stern; international sales, Chris E. Chapman. Employees: 216. Fleet: five L-100-30 Hercules. Alia Royal Jordanian Airlines is the wholly Government-owned national air line, established in December 1963. Scheduled passenger and cargo services link Amman with Abu Dhabi, Aqaba, Athens, Amsterdam, Benghazi, Beirut, Bahrain, Baghdad, Brussels, Bangkok, Cairo, Copenhagen, Damascus, Dubai, Dhahran, Doha, Frankfurt, Geneva, Houston, Jeddah, Kuwait, Karachi, Larnaca, London, Muscat, Madrid, New York, Paris, Ras-el-Khaimah, Rome, Tehran and Vienna. Alia holds traffic rights to several points in Latin America, Africa and the Far East but has not begun services. Routes to Kano, Abidjan, Rio de Janeiro, Santiago de Chile, Singa pore, Manila and Seoul are expected to be inaugurated in spring 1981. Sub sidiaries include Arab Wings (88 per cent), Arab Air Services (20 per cent). Far East Tourism and Travel, and Jordan Express Travel plus interests in several hotel projects. Head Office: PO Box 302, Jordan Insurance Building, First Circle, Jebal Amman, Jordan. •21501. Executives: chairman/president, Ali Ghandour; vice-presidents: general ser vices, Emile Farjouh; marketing/sales, Iyad El-Khaldi; administration/ person nel, Zuhair Dahman; finance, Fahed El-Fanek; technical/engineering, David Burness; planning/scheduling, Nizar A. Aryne; operations, Nasri Jamean; terminal services, Akel Biltaji; passen ger services, Fuad Matta; public rela tions, Munib Toukan. Employees: 3,447. Fleet: two Boeing 747-200B Combi, seven 707-320C, one 720B, two 727-200. On order: one 747-200B Combi, five TriStar 500, four 727-200. Simulators: one Singer-Link 707, one Atkins & Merrill 727-200. Alidair was formed in January 1972 and began charter and inclusive-tour ser vices that year. Scheduled services link ing East Midlands, Birmingham and Copenhagen began in April 1973 but ceased in January 1974 following the fuel crisis. Alidair now concentrates on contract charter to the oil industry, with bases at Aberdeen and Sumburgh (operated by Alidair Scotland), wet or dry aircraft leasing to other airlines; and ad hoc passenger and cargo char ters. Alidair also operates a fully approved engineering facility and pro vides specialist maintenance for HS.125 and Gulfstream II business jets. Alidair Aco-Engineering Ltd is a subsidiary. Head Office: East Midlands Airport, Castle Donington, Derbyshire, Great Britain. •377105. Executives: chairman/joint managing director, Capt Roger Dadd; vice-chair man/joint managing director, Capt Trefor Jones; financial director, David Lynch: general manager Scotland, David Bycroft; contracts manager, Michael Hawkins. Employees: 180. Fleet: six Viscount 700, two Aztec. Alisarda was formed in March 1963 as an air-taxi and charter operator in Sar dinia. Scheduled services began in May 1966 and now link Olbia with Milan, Turin, Pisa, Borne, Bologna, Cagliari, Genoa and Venice, plus seasonal ser vices to Paris, Geneva, Zurich, Dussel- dorf, Frankfurt and Nice. Alisarda is an associate company of the Oonsorzio Delia Costa Smeralda, in which Prince Karim Aga Khan has a major interest. Head Office: 193 Corso Umberto, Olbia (Sassari), 07026, Sardinia, Italy. •790043. Executives: president, Paolo Riccardi; managers: general, Franca Trivi; ad ministration, Ubaldo Trivellin; commer cial, Sebastiano Barrera; technical ser vices, Alberto Nocchi; ground operations, Rolando Aureli; sales, Rodolfo Ciocarelli; chief pilot, Capt Danilo Santagni. Employees: 450. Fleet: two DC-9-30, two DC-9-14. Alitalia (Unee Aeree Italians) was originally formed in September 1946 as a joint British-Italian venture with BEA and later BOAC participation. Opera tions began in May 1947 and the present name was adopted in 1957 following the takeover of Linee Aeree Italiene LAI. Current stockholders are IB.I, Banca d'ltalia, International Securities Fund, Banca Nazionale del Lavoro and Credito Italiano. Subsidiary companies of Ali-
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