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1985
1985 - 0916.PDF
WORLD AIRLINE DIRECTORY Atlantic Southeast Airlines (ASA) was incor porated in March 1979 and commenced scheduled commuter operations in June of that year. ASA currently operates a hub-and-spoke network from Atlanta, Georgia, serving some 19 cities in Tennessee, North and South Carolina, Georgia, Florida, and Alabama, and on December 15, 1984, commenced a similar operation out of Memphis to cities in Alabama and Mississippi. ASA also feeds Delta under the "Delta Connection" programme implemented on May 1 of last year. Head Office: 1688 Phoenix Parkway, College Park, Georgia 30349, USA. Executives: president, George F. Pickett; v-ps: administration, Robert L. Priddy; sales and services, John W. Beiser. Employees: 572. Fleet: five DHC Dash 7, five Shorts 360, 11 Bandeirante. On order; 10 Brasilia. Austin Airways was formed in 1934 and is Canada's oldest continuously operated airline. An extensive network of scheduled services stretches throughout Ontario and the Northwest Territories and addi tionally links Thunder Bay (Ontario) with Minneapolis/St Paul. Head Office: Box 1160, Timmins Airport, Timmins, Ontario P4N 7H9, Canada. s^* 067-81613. Employees: 375. Fleet: nine HS.748, two DC-3, five DHC-6 Twin Otter, two Beech C99, two Citation I, two Cessna 402C, one Cessna 310, one Cessna 185. Austral Lineas Aereas (ALA) was formed in June 1971 by the merger of Austral Compania Argentina de Transportes Aereos, and Aerotransport.es Literal Argentino (ALA). The original Austral was formed in 1957 and began scheduled services in 1958. In 1966 Austral acquired a 30 per cent interest in ALA and the companies have operated integrated services from that time. ALA was formed in 1957 as an air-taxi company, and reorganised in 1958. Pan Am acquired a 22 per cent interest in 1965 in return for supplying DC-3s to ALA. Austral Lineas Aereas operates scheduled passenger and cargo services over a 27-point domestic network. Passenger and cargo charters and inclusive-tour flights are also operated. Head Office: Florida 234, 6° Piso, 1334 Buenos Aires, Argentina. ^^ 21263/22098/9175. Executives: president, Lie Mauricio Jaras; v-p, Clemente Panzone; directors: Cont Alicia Andreozzi; Dr Daniel Crispiani; operations, Cmdte Ignacio J. Fernandez; commercial, Lie Horacio D. Preneste; administration & finance, Lie Osvaldo Spataro. Employees: 1,900. Fleet: three MD-80, eight One-Eleven 500. Austrian Airlines (Osterreichische Luft- verkehrs) was formed in September 1957 by a merger of Air Austria and Austrian Airways, neither of which had started operating. The carrier is now owned 99 per cent by the Austrian Government. Scheduled passenger and cargo services are operated from Vienna, Graz, Linz, Klagenfurt and Salzburg to 39 cities in 34 countries in Eastern and Western Europe and the Middle East. Austrian Airtransport, Austrian Air Services, Touropa Austria, Inter- convention, Austrian Aircraft Corporation, and Airest are subsidiary companies. Austrian also under takes an extensive network of charter flights within Europe, the Mediterranean area and Africa through its subsidiary, Austrian Airtransport. Head Office: PO Box 50, Fontanastrasse 1, A-1107 Vienna, Austria. ^^13/1811. Executives: chairman, Otto Binder; joint managing directors; Dr Anton Heschgl; Dr Hubert Papousek; executive vice-presidents; marketing, Prok Dr Herbert Barnmer; economy/finance, Prok Walter Repolusk; engineering/maintenance, Prok Dipl Ing Helmut Schoberl; operations, Dr Harald Schanda; secretary-general, Dr Hans Lob. Employees: 2,900. TJ&lf** /"#£#f£. It H1HIIHIH 9 * * IHHHHI It- -' vr'.jp"** -^jr •!••• mlHB "I m mw rwiimir rin r ^SSSSSSSSm^^^^^^S^. •• ««& Austral Lineas Aereas is the largest One-Eleven operator in South America Fleet: 12 MD-80, four DC-9-30. On order: two Airbus A310, two MD-80, fbuT MD-87. Austrian Airtransport (Osterreichische Flugbetriebs) was formed in 1964 as a subsidiary of Austrian Airlines, which originally had a 40 per cent holding. This was increased to 80 per cent following a reorganisation of the company in September 1973. Charter and inclusive-tour services are operated using aircraft leased from Austrian Airlines. Head Office: PO Box 50, Fontanastrasse 1, A-1107 Vienna, Austria. Executive: managing director, Dr Franz Kotrba. Employees: 15. Avensa—see Aerovias Venezolanas. Aviaco (Aviacion y Comercio) was formed on February 18, 1948, by a group of Bilbao businessmen to operate all-cargo services with a fleet of Bristol Freighters. Scheduled passenger services were added in 1950, linking Bilbao with Madrid and Barcelona, followed by the first international route to Marseilles via Palma. Aviaco's present network includes services to Madrid, Valencia, Murcia, Malaga, Cordoba, Jerez, Badajoz, Vigo, La Coruna, Santander, Bilbao, San Sebastian, Pamplona, Zaragoza, Reus, Barcelona, Gerona, Seo de Urgel, Ibiza, Palma y Mahon, Tenerife, and Las Palmas. Inclusive-tour and charter flights form a large part of the airline's operations. Major shareholder is the Spanish Government agency INI with 90 per cent. Head Office: Maudes 51, Edificio Minister, Madrid 3, Spain. ^^ 27641. Executives: president, Carlos Espinosa de los Monteros; vice-president, Carlos Reboll; managing director, Jose Luis Bru; directors: commercial, Manuel Sanchez; technical, J. M. R. Castellanos; financial J. A. Ansede. Employees: 1,751. Fleet: two DC-8-50F, 16 DC-9-30, four DC-9-30F, nine Fokker F.27-600. On order: 22 CN-235. Avianca—see Aerovias Nacionales de Colombia, Aviateca—see Aviateca. Aerolineas de Guatemala- Aviogenex, the air transport division of the state- owned General Export Organisation, was formed in 1968 (as Genex Airlines) to operate passenger and cargo charter flights to points in Europe and the Mediterranean area in association with Yugotours, another General Export affiliate. Head Office: Djure Djakovica 31, 11000 Belgrade, Jugoslavia. ^#^11711. Executives: general manager, Miroslav Spasic; deputy general manager, Dragan Aksentijevic; managers: technical, Srdja Basaric; traffic, Capt Pavel Podborsek; sales, Milos Djordjevic; chief pilot, Capt V. Veselic. Employees: 280. Fleet: two Boeing 727-200, seven Tupolev Tu-134A. BAF—see British Air Ferries. Bahamasair was formed in early 1973 as the national airline of the Bahamas. Now wholly Government-owned, the new airline took over Out Island Airways and Flamingo Airlines. Bahamasair began operations in June 1973, and scheduled passenger and cargo services now link Nassau with Newark, Atlanta, Miami, Fort Lauderdale, Turks and Caicos Islands, and Freeport, and an additional 20 points in the Family Islands. Head Office: PO Box N-4881, Windsor Field, Nassau, Bahamas. ^^NS-239. Executives: chairman, Hon Phillip Bethel; deputy chairman, William C. Allen; directors; Harold Longley, Basil G. O'Brien; Philip P. Smith; Colin C. Deane; secretary, Frank G. Bartlett; general manager, A. E. Curling; deputy general manager, Capt P. E. Farrington. Employees: 600. Fleet: four Boeing 737-200, four HS.748, two Shrike Commander 500S. Balair was formed in 1953 and began operations the same year. Swissair originally held a 36 per cent interest in Balair, but this has since been increased to 57 per cent. Passenger and cargo charters and inclusive-tour flights are operated to destinations in Europe, the Far East, North and South America, East and West Africa. Head Office: 4002 Basle-Mulhouse Airport, Switzerland. .^^ 62325. Executives: president, P. Oes; vice-president, M. Hediger; chief delegate and chief executive director, Heinrich Moser; directors: commercial, Hans-Ruedi Graber; finance/economics, A. Kofmel; vice- directors: personnel, B. Grieder; public relations, Peter Meyer; operations, H. Schmid; legal, C. Schramm. Employees: 375. Fleet: one DC-8-63F, one DC-10-30, two DC-9-30, one MD-80. On Order: one Airbus A310. Balkan Bulgarian Airlines, known until 1968 as TABSO, started services in July 1947 as a joint Bulgarian-Soviet company, but became a fully Bulgarian operation in 1954. The airline operates scheduled passenger and cargo services to 44 points in Europe, Asia and Africa, together with an eight- point domestic network. Balkan is also responsible for agricultural aviation services. Head Office: 12 Place Narodno Sobranie, Sofia C, Bulgaria. ^^ 022342. Executives: general director, Dimitar Dimitrov; deputy general directors; Zvezdomir Todorov; Emil Velchev; Ivan Nicov; commercial director, Kosta Gargov; chief pilot, Kolyo Kardjilov. Fleet: seven Ilyushin 11-18, three Antonov An-12B, 17 Tupolev Tu-154B, 17 Tu-134/134A, eight Antonov An-24, 12 Yakovlev Yak-40, nine Mil Mi-8. Bangladesh Biman was formed in January 1972 as the national airline of Bangladesh. Scheduled 56 FLIGHT International, 30 March 1985
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