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1982
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World airline directory Employees: 15. Fleet: one Electra, one Douglas DC-6A. Japan Air Cargo—see Nippon Air Cargo Lines. Japan Air Lines (JAL—Nihon Koku Kabushiki Kaisha) is the successor to the original privately owned company of the same name which began operat ing in October 1951. The new JAL came into being in October 1953 as the national airline of Japan with a Govern ment holding of 50 per cent, since re duced to 44-3 per cent. In 1978 the air line was reorganised into five operating divisions: sales; transport; maintenance; operations; and freight. An extensive network of scheduled passenger and cargo services links Tokyo, Osaka, Niigata, Sapporo, Fukuoka, Kagoshima and Nagoya with numerous points in Asia and the Middle East, Australia (Sydney), New Zealand (Auckland), North America (Anchorage, Vancouver, San Francisco, Los Angeles and New York), Central America (Mexico City), South America (Rio de Janeiro), and Europe (London, Paris, Amsterdam, Copenhagen, Hamburg, Frankfurt, Zurich, Rome, Athens, Madrid) and Moscow. Subsidiary companies are Japan Asia Airways, South West Air Lines, Japan Air Lines Development Company, Airport Ground Service and Japan Creative Tours. Head Office: Tokyo Building, 7-3 Mar- unouchi 2-chome, Chiyoda-Ku. Tokyo 100, Japan. Executives: chairman, Shozo Hotta; president: Yasumoto Takagi; executive vice-president, Naoshi Machida; senior vice-presidents: flight operations/main tenance, Chikanori Noda; corporate "re search and planning/international re lations, Minoru Kimura; legal affairs/ customer relations/personnel /industrial relations, Yuichiro Kita; vice-presidents: associated companies/finance, Tatsuta Goto; purchasing/fuel/airports, Takeshi Tsunogae; industrial relations, Yujiro Hagiwara; Americas, Takayuki Hashi- zume; engineering/maintenance, Hideo Hirasawa; sales/public relations, Mat- suo Toshimitsu; personnel/cabin ser vices, Kiyotsugu Abo; flight operations, Masuo Sugiyama; overseas regions/ corporate research, Mitsunari Kawano; transport services; Atsushu Yoshitaka; cargo/mail, Ko Suguwara. Employees: 21,230. Fleet: 21 Boeing 747-200B, seven 747- 100, four 747-200F, one 747-100F, seven 747SR, two 727-100, 17 DC-10-40, 11 DC- 8-61, eight DC-8-62, one DC-8-50, four DC-8-62F, one DC-8-50F. On order: three 747-200B, one DC-10-40. Japan Asia Airways was formed on August 8, 1975, as a wholly owned sub sidiary of Japan Air Lines to operate scheduled passenger and cargo ser vices, as well as charters, between Japan and Taiwan (Formosa). Ser vices now operate from Tokyo, Osaka and Okinawa to Taipei, Hong Kong and Manila. JAL ceased flying the Japan- Taiwan route in 1974 as part of an agreement with CAAC to operate ser vices to the Chinese mainland. Head Office: Yurakucho Denki Build ing, 7-1, Yurakucho 1 Chome, Chiyoda- Ku, Tokyo 100, Japan. Executives: chairman, Hiroshi Arai; president, Toshio Itakura; executive vice-president, Hisayoshi Terai; senior vice-president, Hitoshi Satake; manag ing director/vice-presidents: finance, Kohen Han; public relations/administra tion, Kunisuke Sakita; planning/inter national relations, Kinnosuke Kimura; director / vice - presidents; marketing/ traffic, Tsukane Hazu; engineering/ maintenance, Ryubaburo Shima; audi tor, Shizuoi Tanaka. Employees: 431. Fleet: three DC-8-61, two DC-10-40. JAT—see Jugoslovenski Aerotransport. Jet America commenced scheduled pas senger operations on November 16, 1981, linking Long Beach Airport, Cali fornia, and Chicago's O'Hare Airport. Initial equipment comprises two DC-9- 80s, with a third on order. Executives: president, Alan Kenison. Jetwest International Airways applied for operating authority in October 1981, planning to start low-fare scheduled services from Las Vegas to Oakland, San Jose, Phoenix, and Albuquerque, to be extended to include routes to Burbank and San Antonio. Executives include president Larry Decker, execu tive vice-president Myron W. Reynolds and vice-president finance Robert J. Scherer. The Heet will initially comprise three DC-9s. Jugoslovenski Aerotransport (JAT— Jugoslav Airlines) was formed in 1947 and is wholly state-owned. An extensive network of scheduled passenger and cargo services is operated from and among 16 domestic points to 37 cities in Western Europe, Scandinavia, Eastern Europe, North Africa, North America, the Middle and Far East. Air Jugoslavia is a subsidiary formed to operate charters using JAT aircraft as necessary. Head Office: PO Box 749, Bircaninova I /III, Belgrade 11000, Belgrade, Jugo slavia. ^11401. Executives: president, Vladimir Kova- cevic; senior vice-presidents: operations, Milan Radojcic; planning, Branislav Krstic; corporate, Vladimir Maletkovic; international, Cedomir Sikuljak; in ternal, Milan Vujicic; economics, Igo Nadj; directors: flight operations, Capt Franc Pintar; technical, Stanislav Lack- ovic; commercial, Milisav Cavic; ground operations, Dragan Dosljak; charter, iZoran Markovic; catering, Tomislav Vesovic; common affairs, Branko Premk; financial, Svetislav Gvozdenovic; acting director, public relations, Prvos- lav Milinkovic. Employees: 6,000. Fleet: two DC-10-30, four Boeing 707- 320C, nine 727-200, 13 DC-9-30. Karair, established in 1957, operates scheduled domestic and international charter services. It continues the opera tions of Karhumaki Airways, formed in 1951 as a subsidiary of the old estab lished Karhumaki aircraft manufactur ing and maintenance organisation. Geological survey work is also carried out. During 1962 Finnair acquired a 29 per cent interest in Karair, since in creased to 35 per cent. A scheduled service is operated between Helsinki and Lappeenranta, plus worldwide charters. Head Office: Helsinki Airport, SF- 01530 Helsinki-Vantaa-Lento, Finland. •*-124769. Executives: chairman, G. Korhonen; managing director, T. Karhumaki; flight operations director, P. Palenius; chief engineer, K. Nurmi; maintenance man ager, P. Vaisanen; purchasing manager, V. Kiviaho; sales manager, P. Siira. Employees: 147. Fleet: one DC-8-51, one swingtail DC-6B, one DC-3, one Bandeirante, one Twin Otter, two F.27-100. Kenn Borek Air began operations in 1975 after taking over Renting Avia tion. Scheduled, charter, survey, and aero-medical flights are operated to various points in Canada's Northwest Territories from Inuvik and Resolute Bay. Routes to Western Canada are operated from Calgary, Alberta, and Dawson Creek, British Columbia. The company also offers a leasing service out of the Calgary base. Head Office: 120-290 McTavish Road N.E., Hangar 4, Calgary International Airport, Calgary, Alberta, Canada T2E 7G5. Employees: 90. Executives: general manager, S. R. Penikeet; operations manager, J. D. Builder; chief pilot, Capt F. Haley. Fleet: two DC-3, two Beech 99, 12 Twin Otter 300, one King Air 90, one Aerostar 601, one Cessna 185, one Cessna 172, one Cessna 152. Kenya Airways was formed on January 22, 1977, by the Kenyan Government to operate domestic and international scheduled services from Kenya when East African Airways ceased operations owing to severe financial problems. Scheduled passenger services began early in February 1977 and now link Nairobi with Cairo, Athens, Rome, Zurich, London, Frankfurt, Copenhagen, Khartoum, Jeddah, Karachi, Bombay, Addis Ababa, Mogadishu, Seychelles, Kampala, Salisbury, Mauritius and Lusaka. Internal services are operated from Nairobi to Mombasa, Malindi and Kisumu. Head Office: Embakasi, PO Box 19002, Nairobi, Kenya. Executives: chairman, Maina Wanjigi; managing director/chief executive, R. S- Nyaga; general managers: corporate planning and management services, Juney Dillenbeck; finance, V. R. Kul- karni; chief pilot, Capt S. Chepkwony. Employees: 2,600. Fleet: three Boeing 707-320B, one 720B, one Douglas DC-9-30, two Fokker F.27-200. Kibris Turk Hava Yollari (Cyprus Turkish Airlines) was formed on December 4, 1974. Equal shareholders are THY-Turkish Airlines and the Cyprus Turkish Community Assembly Consolidated Improvement Fund. Scheduled passenger services began in February 1975 from Ercan (Tymbou) Airport, eight miles east of Nicosia, to Istanbul, Ankara and Adana. Head Office: Bedreddin Demirel Square, Nicosia (Lefkosa), Turkish Federated State of Cyprus. ^"57133. 844 FLIGHT International, 3 April 1982
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