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1982
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World airline directory Head Office: Postfach 750271, D-6000, Flughafen Frankfurt, West Germany. ^4189142. Executives: joint managing directors: Wilhelm Althen; Siegfried Kohler. Employees: 32. Fleet: four Boeing 707-320C. Ghana Airways Corporation was formed in July 1958 by the Ghana Government to take over the Ghana operations of the former West African Airways Corporation. International routes now link Accra with Rome and London. West coast DC-9 services link Accra with Lagos, Abidjan, Roberts- field, Freetown, Conakry, Banjul, Dakar, Lome, and Cotonou and extensions are planned to Douala, Libreville, and Luanda. Domestic F.28 services serve Kumasi, Sunyani and Tamale. Head Office: PO Box 1636, Ghana House, Accra, Ghana. Executives: managing director, E. Bruce-Ayeh; corporation secretary, E. Bruce-Ay eh; commercial controller, G. Osei-Kofi; general manager catering division, J. Kyei-Yamoah; chief engi neer J. A. Tandoh: chief accountant, E. E. Kwesie; chief internal auditor, F. Ofosu-Osei: commercial manager, R. A. Kumah; chief planning engineer, S. B. Amoh; purchasing officer. S. B. Acheam- pong: public relations officer, Mike M. Anamzoya. Employees: 2,000. Fleet: one DC-10-30, one DC-9-50, one F.28-2000. On order: one DC-10-30, one F.28-4000. Gibraltar Airways—see GB Airways. Global International Airways was formed on December 28, 1977, and began operations in August 1978. Pas senger charter nights are operated from Detroit to Honolulu, Las Vegas, Europe, and the Caribbean. Cargo nights are also undertaken and authority has recently been received to serve Colombia from Miami. Head Office: Air World Centre, 10920 Ambassador Drive, Kansas City, Mis souri 64153, USA. ^424189. Fleet: two Boeing 707-320C, two 707- 330C, two 707-320B. Great American Airways began sched uled passenger services linking Reno with Oakland early in 1980. Head Office: Suite 260, 1005 Terminal Way, Reno, Nevada 89502, USA. Fleet: one Douglas DC-9-15. Gronlandsfly AS (Greenlandair| was established in November 1960 and holds the sole concession to operate domestic scheduled services together with international and domestic char ters. Equal stockholders are the Govern ment, Royal Greenland Trading Com pany, Cryolit Mining Oresund and SAS. Scheduled passenger and cargo ser vices link the capital Godthaab with Mestersvig, Scoresbysund, Angmags- salik, Sondre Stromfjord, Frederikshab, Groennedal, Narssaq, Julianehab, Nanortalik, Sukkertoppen, Holsteinborg, Egedesminde, Godhavn, Umanak, Uper- navik, Jakobshavn, Christianshab, Quanak and Thule. Besides scheduled traffic, Greenlandair uses helicopters and fixed-wing aircraft for special operations such as offshore supply nights, ice reconnaissance, heavy lift, survey and exploration services and supply flights to DEW-line stations for the USAF in Greenland and eastern Canada, Greenlandair Charter (light helicopters), Greenair (worldwide heavy helicopter charter) and Green Lodge (real estate administration) are sub sidiaries. Head Office: PO Box 1012, DK-3900, Godthaab, Greenland. ^90602. Executives: chairman, Erik Hesselb- jerg; president, Claes Piper; executive vice-president, Ole Steen Jensen; man agers: flight operations, Knut A. Sol- bakken; traffic, Jens Zinglersen; tech nical, Jorgen Oerstam; administration/ personnel, Erik Bjerregaard; account ing, Leif Kamstrup; marketing, Ole Steen Jensen; planning, Ole Dam. Employees: 370. Fleet: two Dash 7, two Twin Otter, seven Sikorsky S-61N, three Bell 204B, three JetRanger, Ave Bell 212. Guernsey Airlines, formed in 1978 to operate inclusive-tour services to Guernsey from points in the UK, is an associate company of Inter City Air lines (previously Alidair). Operations began in 1978 with scheduled services following in April 1980. These now link Guernsey with Manchester, Cambridge, and Gloucester (Staverton), plus Jer sey with Newcastle, Cambridge, and Gloucester. Head Office: States Airport, La Vil- liaze, Guernsey, Channel Islands, Great Britain. ^'4191156. Executives: chairman, Capt Roger Dadd; directors: Trefor Jones, David Keys: director/company secretary, Mrs S. Rigler; commercial officer, Jeremy Ozanne: reservations manager, Mervyn Leonard. Employees: 25. Fleet: one Viscount 700, one Shorts 330, one Aztec. Gulf Aviation (Gulf Air) was formed in March 1950. Equal shareholders since April 1, 1974, are the Gulf States of Bahrein, Oman, Qatar, and the United Arab Emirates. A network of scheduled passenger and cargo services links Bahrein with Abu Dhabi, Amman, Amsterdam, Baghdad, Beirut, Bangkok, Bombay, Cairo, Colombo, Dhahran, Delhi, Doha, Dubai, Hong Kong, Jeddah, Karachi, Kuwait, Larnaca, London, Muscat, Manila, Paris, Ras Al Khaimah, Salalah, Sharjah, Shiraz and Tehran. Charter work is also undertaken. Bahrein Airport Services, Gulf Heli copters Ltd, Gulf Hotels, Abu Dhabi Airport Services, and Doha Airport Ser vices are subsidiary companies of Gulf Air. Head Office: PO Box 138. Bahrein. -*-8255. Executives: chairman, HE Abdulla Bin Nasser Al Suweidi; chairman executive committee, HE Yousuf Ahmed Shirawi; chief executive, Mr Ali E Al Malki; general manager, Mr Abdulla Al Madani. Employees: 3,387. Fleet: five TriStar 1. three TriStar 200, nine Boeing 737-200. Gulf Helicopters was formed in 1970 to operate general charter services in the Gulf area. The company is a fully owned subsidiary of Gulf Air Company, GSC Head Office: PO Box 811, Doha. Qatar. >^4353. Executives: chairman, Abdulla Al Attiva: executive director, Abdulla Al Soweidi; directors: Abdul Hameed Alawi; Saeed Al Qubaisi; Mohamed Maskary; Ahmed Mohd Ismail Al- Ghanis; manager, W. L. Williams; chief pilot, S. Richardson; chief engineer, M. F. Davis. Employees: 53. Fleet: six Bell 212. Guyana Airways Corporation was founded in 1939 as British Guyana Air ways. In July 1955 the Government bought out BGA and in September 1963 the name was changed to Guyana Air ways. A network of scheduled services links Georgetown with 24 points in Guyana and Miami via Port of Spain and San Juan. Charter work is also undertaken. British Airways provides management assistance under contract. Head Office: 32 Main Street, George town, Guyana. /+-GY242. Executives: chairman, D. I. Yankana; deputy chairman/general manager, R. L. Abrahams; directors, J. R. Vieira; C. Merriman: C. H. Da Silva; Capt G. Spence; R. Dornford; T. Boyce; G. Loy; C. Chan-a-Sue; A. Halls. Employees: 500. Fleet: one Boeing 737-200, one Doug las DC-6B, two HS.748, two Twin Otter. Hamarein Air-Gulf Carriers, formed in December 1976 to operate ad-hoc pas senger and cargo charters to points in the Gulf area, ceased operations during 1981. Hang Khong Vietnam, previously known as the General Civil Aviation Adminis tration of Vietnam—CAAV, is the state airline of Vietnam. Scheduled passenger services are operated from Gialem Air port, Hanoi, to Ho Chi Minh City (for merly Saigon), Vientiane and Bangkok. Authority has been received to operate services to Rangoon, Calcutta, Kuala Lumpur and Singapore (the latter from Ho Chi Minh City) but no starting date has been published. Air Vietnam (the former South Vietnamese airline) is believed to be still operating internal services to Da Nang and Phu Quoc Island. Future plans of HKV are re ported to include a service to Paris in return for Air France traffic rights to Ho Chi Minh City. The single Boeing 707 has been wet-leased for five years from the Irish leasing agency Air Tara. Head Office: Gialem Airport, Hanoi, Vietnam. Executive: chief of directorate of civil aviation, Khoang Igok Zieu. Fleet: one Boeing 707-320, three Ilyu- shin 11-18, three DC-6, two DC-4, two Tupolev Tu-134A, two Yak-40, eight Antonov An-24, An-26, three DC-3. On order: I1-62M, Yak-42. 840 FLIGHT International, 3 April 1982
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