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WORLD AIRLINE DIRECTORY Air BC, a subsidiary of the Jim Pattison Group, is a Canadian commuter airline formed in 1980 through the merger of a number of small operators. Scheduled services are operated to numerous destinations in British Columbia with emphasis placed on routes connecting the lower mainland and Vancouver island cities. Floatplane operations out of bases at Campbell River and Port Hardy service many isolated logging and fishing communities along the coast of BC. Head Office: 4680 Cowley Crescent, Richmond, British Columbia V7B 1C1, Canada. ^^ 04-355612. Fleet: three DHC Dash-7, two DC-3, one Grumman Mallard, 12 Twin Otter, five Goose, five Otter, three Islander, 10 Beaver, three Cessna A185F. Air Belgium (formerly Abelag Airways) was formed on May 3, 1979, to operate worldwide charter flights. Major shareholders are the tour operator Sun Inter national and Herfurth, Head Office: Vilvoordelaan 192, B-1930 Zaventem, Belgium. ^^64803. Executives: chairman, R. Vanmoerkerke; general manager, R. Nuyens. Employees: 35. Fleet: one Boeing 737-200. Air Berlin was formed in 1978 as a wholly owned subsidiary of the Oregon-based American agricultural company, Lelco, to operate passenger charter flights from Tegel Airport, Berlin, for German tour operators to points in the Mediterranean and North Africa. Operations began in April 1979. Head Office: Tegel Airport, D-1000 Berlin 51, Federal Republic of Germany. ^^^183124. Executives: chairman, Leonard Lundgren; presi dent, Kim Lundgren; general manager, Harry Birkholz; vice-president operations/chief pilot, Patrick J. Kennedy. Fleet: one Boeing 737-200. Airborne Express, the airline operating subsidiary of the Seattle, Washington-based Airborne Freight Corporation, was formed in April 1980 from a merger of Midwest Air Charter and the airline division of the freight forwarding company. Operations began in April 1980 and now cover an extensive network of overnight express small package services from the Airborne Air Park hub at Wilmington, Ohio, to 86 airports serving 160 cities and surrounding metro politan areas from the Atlantic to the Pacific coasts. Head Office: 145 Hunter Drive, Airborne Air Park, Wilmington, Ohio 45177, USA. ,^^214317. Executives: president, Lawrence Byrnes; executive vice-president airline division, Graham Dorland. Employees: 625. Fleet: seven DC-9-30, five DC-9-30F, four DC-9-10, two Caravelle 6R, 13 YS-llA freighters, one Convair CV-600, one HFB-320 Hansa Jet, one Lear Jet 23, six Navajo. Air Botswana was formed in August 1972 as the successor to Botswana Airways Corporation (itself established in 1969 to replace Botswana National Airways). The airline is wholly owned by the Botswana Development Corporation and operates scheduled passenger and cargo services from Gaborone to Johannesburg, Lusaka and Harare as well as domestic services between Gaborone, Maun, Francistown and Selebi-Phikwe. A cargo charter division is operated by the airline under the title of Air Botswana Cargo. Head Office: PO Box 92, Gaborone, Botswana. ^^2413. Executives: chairman, K, Kuiper; managers: general, C. B. Pollock; traffic, R. A. D. Ismail; sales & reservations, Miss J. B. Thema; finance, T. R. Rahman; cargo, G. W. Mitchell; development, L. Nasha. Employees: 133. Fleet: two Lockheed L-100-30, one Fokker F.27-200, one F.27-400, one Dornier 228. Air Bridge, formed in 1972 as Air-Bridge Carriers (ABC), is a subsidiary of Field Aviation, itself a part of the Hunting Group of companies. Cargo charter services are operated to points in Europe, the Middle and Far East, and Africa. Air Bridge specialises in the carriage of express parcels and livestock. Head Office: East Midlands Airport, Castle Donington, Derby, Great Britain. ^^ 377046. Executives: chairman, G. H. Williams; managing director, J. D. Capstick; chief pilot, Capt C. Hutch inson; general manager, M. P. Timson; operations manager, D. Owen. Employees: 130. Fleet: two Argosy 100, six Vanguard freighter. Air Burundi, the state-owned national airline of Burundi, was originally formed in April 1971 as Soci- ete de Transports Aeriens du Burundi (STAB), the present title being adopted in June 1975. Scheduled passenger services are operated from Bujumbura to Kigali (Rwanda) and Kalemie (Zaire), together with charter flights. Agricultural work is also undertaken. Head Office: BP 2460, 40 Avenue du Commerce, Bujumbura, Burundi. -^' ,80bdi. Executives: managing director, Gerard Mugabo; managers: marketing, Hyacinthe Hajayandi; ad ministration, Deo Ntibibuka; financial, Audace Ntahimpera; chief pilot, Capt Libere Nahimana. Employees: 50. Fleet: one Caravelle 3, two Twin Otter 300, two Super Cub. Air BVI was formed in June 1971 as the national airline of the British Virgin Islands. Scheduled inter-island passenger services began in July 1972 and now link Beef Island Airport, Tortola and Virgin Gorda with San Juan (Puerto Rico), St Thomas and St Croix (US Virgin Islands), St Kitts (Leeward Islands), St Maarten (Netherlands Antilles) and Antigua. Shareholding was re-organised in 1976 and is now in the hands of local businessmen, a charitable trust, and Air BVI employees. Head Office: PO Box 85, Road Town, Tortola, British Virgin Islands. ^0^- 292-7950. Executives: president, Elihu Rhymer; chief pilot/director of operations, Capt T. C. Branson; managers: maintenance/engineering, Patrick Flanag- han; marketing, Robert Solymossy; administrationf Edison O'Neal. Employees: 88. Fleet: one HS.748, five DC-3, four Islander. < Aircal, known until April 1981 as Air California, was" formed in 1966 and began operations in January 1967 from Orange County Airport. The airline was placed under trusteeship from 1972 to 1981 following the y collapse of its owner, Westgate California Corporation. Aircal is now 70 per cent owned by^ Aircal Investments. High frequency interstate one- class scheduled passenger services are operated between Orange County, Seattle/Tacoma, San Jose, -< San Francisco, Oakland, Portland, Sacramento, Reno/Lake Tahoe, Burbank, and Los Angeles. Char- i ter flights to points in the USA are also authorised. Head Office: 3636 Birch Street, Newport Beach,1 California 92660, USA. . ^^ 69-2488. Executives: chairman and chief executive officer, i William Lyon; senior vice-president marketing, David A. Banmiller. ' Employees: 1,200. f Fleet: seven MD-80, 12 Boeing 737-200, two 737-100. On Order: 12 737-300. •* Air Canada, formerly Trans-Canada Airlines, was founded in 1937 as the nationally owned airline of ,* Canada, with the stock held by Government-owned Canadian National Railways until February 28, 1978, * when Air Canada became a Crown Corporation in its own right. The airline began operations between Vancouver and Seattle, and established airmail 4 services between Montreal and Vancouver by October 1938 and transcontinental passenger services i by April 1939. In May 1948 Air Canada took over the commercial operation of its wartime transatlantic r services to Britain. Air Canada now operates an r extensive network of scheduled passenger and cargo services within Canada, together with international y routes to San Francisco, Los Angeles, Chicago, Dallas-Fort Worth, Houston, Tampa, Miami,A Cleveland, New York and Boston in the USA; Freeport, Nassau, Havana, Montego Bay, Kingston, Antigua, Guadeloupe, Martinique, Barbados, t Haiti, and Port of Spain in the Caribbean; London, Prestwick, Paris, Geneva, Zurich, r Diisseldorf, Munich and Frankfurt in Europe, and Bermuda. Scheduled service to Bombay and ** Air Atlanta operates scheduled passenger services out of Atlanta, the carrier's hub, with a fleet of five Boeing 727-100s * 34 FLIGHT International, 30 March 198$
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