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WORLD AIRLINE DIRECTORY Marseilles, Lyons and Bordeaux to 34 points in Africa, two in the Middle East, four in Asia, eight in the Pacific area, and to Los Angeles. Charter and inclusive-tour service are also operated. Head Office: 3 Boulevard Malesherbes, F-75008 Paris, France. ^^610692 f uta a. Executives: chairman & chief executive, Rene Lapautre; executive v-p, Guy Sene; general secretary, Edmond Braure; v.p finance & control, Luc Ragoucy. Employees: 6,915. Fleet: one Boeing 747-300, two 747-200B Combi, one 747-200F, six DC-10-30. On order: one 747-300, United Airlines was formed on March 27, 1931, as the management company of four pioneer airlines: Boeing Air Transport, Pacific Air Transport, National Air Transport and Varney Airlines (founded in 1926). Capital Airlines was absorbed in 1961. United Airlines became a subsidiary of UAL Inc, a holding company, in 1969. Other UAL subsidiaries include Westin Hotels, GAB Business Services and Mauna Kea Properties. United is the world's largest privately owned airline by almost any criterion. The airline operates an extensive system of scheduled passenger and cargo routes linking 159 cities in the United States, (from the Atlantic Seaboard, across the USA, the length of the Pacific coast, across the Pacific to Hawaii), Canada, the Bahamas, Tokyo and Hong Kong, and points in Mexico. Head Office: PO Box 66100, Chicago, Illinois, 60666, USA. ^f^ 287419. Executives: chairman/chief executive officer, Richard J. Ferris; president, James J. Hartigan; executive v-ps: finance, John L. Cowan; marketing & planning, John R. Zeeman; senior v-ps: corporate planning, Edward A. Beamish; flight operations, Lloyd Barry; general counsel & secretary, Edward H. Hoenicke. Employees: 47,800 Fleet: 18 Boeing 747-100, three D-10-30, 44 DC-10- 10, 29 DC-8-71, 19 767-200, 13 DC-8-50F, 104 727-200, 50 727-100, 49 737-200. On order: ten 767-200. United Parcel Service Company (UPS) provides a scheduled network of parcel services throughout the USA. Orion Air and Evergreen International under take many UPS services under contract. Head Office: 51 Weaver Street, Greenwich Office, Park 5, Greenwich, Connecticut 06830, USA. ^^* 965857 ups gTC. Fleet: seven Boeing 747-100F, 12 DC-8-73CF, 12 SA227AT Expediter. USAir, operated as Allegheny Airlines until October 27, 1979, was established in 1937 as All American Airways, adopting the Allegheny title in 1953. Lake Central Airlines was acquired in July 1968 and Mohawk Airlines in April 1972. USAir's network provides scheduled passenger services to nearly 100 cities in 28 states, District of Columbia, and two Canadian provinces. Its route system extends to Montreal to the northeast, Minneapolis/St Paul to the northwest, Florida to the southeast and Los Angeles, San Francisco and San Diego on the west coast. A number of smaller airlines operate Allegheny Commuter services, connecting with mainline USAir flights at major points. Head Office: Washington National Airport, Wash ington DC 20001, USA. ^^^892645 Executives: chairman/president, Edwin I. Colodny; executive v-ps: marketing, Randall Malin; operations, Seth E. Schofield; general counsel, Lawrence L. Stetzel; senior v-ps: finance, P. Jackson Bell; administration, John R. Long III; maintenance and engineering, Garner W. Miller. Employees: 12,600. Fleet: four Boeing 737-300, 14 Boeing 727-200, 23 737-200, 71 DC-9-30, 21 One-Eleven 200. On order: 26 737-300. UTA—see Union de Transports Aeriens. 130 Varig (Viacao Aerea Rio-Grandense) was founded in 1927, with the technical assistance of the German Condor syndicate, for the operation of local services. Varig subsequently absorbed several other airlines, including the domestic operator Aero Geral (1951), the Real consortium (1961), and Panair do Brasil's equipment and international routes in 1965. Capital majority is held by the foundation of employ ees and executives. An extensive network of routes is operated throughout South and Central America, and to the USA, Europe, Africa, and Asia. In May 1975 the foundation of employees acquired control of Cruzeiro. Head Office: Avenida Almirante Silvio de Noronha 365, Edificio Varig, Rio de Janeiro 20021, Brazil. ^^021-22363. Executives: president, Helio Smidt; v-ps: Rubel Thomas; administration/control, Edgard Nascimento de Araujo; directors: finance/accounting, Joaquim F. Santos; economic planning, Harro Fouquet; judicial, Aguinaldo de Mello Junqueira; commercial, Rubel Thomas; sales, Oswaldo Trigueiros Jr; traffic, Eduardo C. Neves; domestic traffic and sales, Carlos I. Amodeo; technical, Gotz Herzfeldt; operations, Antonio J. Schittini Pinto. Employees: 16,888. Fleet: three Boeing 747-200B Combi, 12 DC-10-30, 11 707-320C, two Airbus A300B4, six 727-100, four 727-100C, 12 737-200, 12 L-188 Electra. VASP (Viacao Aerea Sao Paulo) was founded in 1934. Major shareholders are the Sao Paulo City Government and the VASP Employees Foundation. The airline operates 54,419km of domestic routes from Manaus in the north to Porto Alegre in the south, and connects all but one of the state capitals to Brasilia. High-frequency services are operated in pool with Varig and Cruzeiro over the Rio-Sao Paulo and Rio-Belo Horizonte-Brazilia routes—the "Ponte Aerea" (Air Bridge). Head Office: Edificio VASP, Aeroporto de Congonhas, CEP-04368, Sao Paulo, Brazil. ,^"21493. Executives: president, Prof Antonio I. A. Ferreira da Silva; directors: Dr Ricardo C. C. Ariani; Paulo C. Goldschmidt; Claudio de Senna Frederico; Plinio L. Pimenta Alberto Lopes de Oliveira. Employees: 9,289. Fleet: three Airbus A300B2. four Boeing 727-200, 18 737-200, two 737-200C. Viasa—Venezuelan Internacional Airways (Venezolana Internacional de Aviacion) was formed in 1961 to take over the international routes operated by Avensa and LAV, which now concentrate on domestic services. The carrier is wholly-owned by the Venezuelan Government. Scheduled passenger services are operated from Caracas and Maracaibo across the Atlantic to Las Palmas, Lisbon, Madrid, Milan, Rome, Paris, Frankfurt, London, and Amsterdam. Viasa also operates to Miami, Washing ton, New York, Mexico City, San Jose, Panama City, Bogota, Cali, Quito, Lima, Rio de Janeiro, Buenos Aires, Curacao, Santo Domingo, San Juan, Port of Spain, and Barbados. Head Office: Torre Viasa, Avenida Sur 25, Plaza Morelos, Caracas 105, Venezuela. ^^"*21125. Executives: president, Dr Luis I. Mendoza; direc tors: commercial, J. Compins; industrial relations, J. J. Gonzalez; planning & procurement, A. Sondor; operations manager, Capt R. Cortez. Employees: 2,500. Fleet: two Boeing 747-200C, six DC-10-30, two DC-8-63. VIC Air Cargo provides cargo charter services from Goma. Head Office: Aeroport, Goma Kivu, Zaire. Fleet: three CL-44. Virgin Atlantic Airways commenced low-fare scheduled passenger services between London (Gatwick) and New York (Newark) on June 22, 1984, followed by Gatwick-Maastricht services on Novem ber 15 of the same year. Originally formed as British Atlantic Airways in June 1982, the company was acquired by the Virgin Record Group and adopted its present title. Head Office: 7th Floor, Sussex House, High Street, Crawley, West Sussex RH10 1BZ. ^^ 877077. Executives: chairman and president, Richard Branson; chief executive, Colin Ranee; directors: Randolph Fields; financial, Richard Holman; market ing, Nick Alexander; technical, Roy Gardner; commercial, Ron Davies; flight operations, Capt Eric Davies. Employees: 230. Fleet: one Boeing 747-200, one One-Eleven 400. VOTEC Servicos Aereos Regionais, a Brazilian domestic commuter airline founded on November 22, 1966 as VOTEC-Voos Tecnicos Executivos, provides scheduled regional services throughout the states of Sao Paulo, Rio de Janeiro, Minas Gerais, Mato Grosso, Goias, Para, and Maranhao. VOTEC also undertakes a range of other services including char ter, air-taxi, aerial survey, offshore support, and search and rescue operations. Head Office: Av. Franklin Roosevelt. 115, 12 Andar, CEP-20021 Rio de Janeiro, R. J. Brazil. ^^ 309108. Fleet: one Fokker F.27-400, one F.27-600, five DC- 3, four Sikorsky S-61N, three S-58ET, six Bande- irante, four S-76A, three Islander, six Hughes 369D. Wardair Canada (1975) dates back to 1946, when Maxwell W. Ward started bush operations from Yellowknife as the Polaris Charter Co with a single D.H. Fox Moth, flying charters in support of the rapidly developing mining industry in the Northwest Territories. Wardair was formed in 1953 to continue this work, and started operations using an Otter. The name Wardair Canada was adopted in 1962 and oper ating authority amended to include international charter operations. The airline went public in 1967 and the major shareholder is Maxwell W. Ward with 73 per cent of the stock. On January 1, 1976, the name change to Wardair Canada (1975) was effected, with Wardair International becoming a parent company to the airline operations as well as to wholly owned subsidiaries International Vacations, Wardair (UK), Wardair Hawaii, Wardair Jamaica, Wardair Equipment and Redrock Reinsurance. Head Office: 2201 Toronto Dominion Tower, Edmonton Centre, Edmonton, Alberta T5J OK4, Canada. ^0^ 037-2057. Executives: chairman/president, Maxwell W. Ward; executive vice-president, T. L. Spalding; secretary/treasurer, M. D. Ward; vice-president/ general manager, G. D. Curley; v-ps: maintenance/ engineering, C. D. McNiven; flight operations, A. B. Freeman; marketing, B. Walker; cargo sales, W. R. O'Hara; finance, T. S. Currie. Employees: 1,990. Fleet: two Boeing 747-200B, two 747-100, three DC-10-30. WDL Flugdienst, a German charter company founded in 1955, provides a range of services which include passenger and freight charter, lease, aerial survey, and advertising operations. Head Office: D-4330 Mulheim, Flughafen Essen- Miilheim, NRW, Federal Republic of Germany. ^^ 856810 wdl d. Employees: 45. Fleet: two Fokker F.27-100, one F.27-200, one Metro II, two Luftschiff WDL-1, one Cessna 421B, one Turbo Navajo. Western Air Lines (WAL) claims to be the oldest US airline, having been founded in 1925 as Western Air Express. The present name was adopted in March 1941. WAL operates scheduled passenger and cargo services to 67 cities in the USA including Alaska and Hawaii; Mexico City, Guadalajara, Ixtapa/ Zihuatanejo, Matzatlan, Puerto Vallarta, and Acapulco in Mexico; and Vancouver, Edmonton and Calgary in Canada. FLIGHT International, 30 March 1985
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