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1985
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WORLD AIRLINE DIRECTORY Head Office: PO Box 92005, World Way Postal - Center, Los Angeles International Airport, Los Angeles, California 90009, USA. w ^j^ 66-4361 westernair. L Executives: chairman & CEO, Lawrence H. Lee; * president & COO, Gerald Grin-stein; executive v-ps: marketing, Harry T. Chandis; finance/ administration, Andre C. Dimitriadis; senior v-p operations, Seth M. Oberg; CFO. Thomas J. Roeck, Jr. Employees: 10,355. Fleet: ten DC-10-10, 46 Boeing 727-200, 16 737-200. On order: nine 737-300, 11 737-200. Wien Airlines, known until May 1973 as Wien Consolidated Airlines and subsequently as Wien Air Alaska until July 15, 1984, was formed from the merger of Wien Alaska Airlines and Northern Consolidated Airlines in April 1968. Wien Air Alaska is claimed to be the oldest scheduled airline in Alaska, having been founded in 1924 as Northern Air Trans port. An extensive network of passenger, cargo and mail services are operated to 15 communities in Alaska, and also to Seattle, Portland, Boise, Denver, Phoenix, Reno, Salt Lake City and Oakland. The airline, until recently owned by Household Inter national Inc., was purchased in 1983 by its chief executive officer, James J. Flood. Head Office: 4100 International Airport Road, Anchorage, Alaska 99502, USA. ^^ 25317. Executives: chief executive officer/chairman of the board/president, James J. Flood executive vice- president, Michael W. McKinnon; v-ps: finance/ secretary/treasurer, Roger Dahl; corporate planning, Merrill Reese; sales , Ken Hohnstein; general counsel, Paul W. Koval; controller, E. Roger Dahl. Employees: 1,476. Fleet: four Boeing 727-200, one 727-100, one 737-200, three 737-200C, one Skyvan. Wilting Helikopter Service was formed in 1975 jointly by Vereinigte Tanklager and Transportmittel of Hamburg, and Helikopter Service A/S of Olso. Helicopter charter services are operated together with contract services including ship/shore pilot transfers to vessels entering or leaving the harbours of Hamburg, Bremen, Bremerhaven and Wilhelmsha- ven, and offshore oil industry support operations in the German sector of the North Sea. Main base is at Flughafen Mariensiel Wilhelmshaven. Wiking Heli copter Service GmbH-Flight Service is an associate company which operates a Citation II from Hanover. Head Office: Neue Rabenstrasse 21, D-2000 Hamburg 36, Federal Republic of Germany. ^^^21700840. Executives: managing director, Rolf Schneider; flight operations manager, U.do Jahn; chief engineer, Horst Voigt. Employees: 42. Fleet: one Sikorsky S-61N, one Bell 212, two S-76 Spirit, one Bell 206 LongRanger, one Citation II. Windward Islands Airways International (WIA-Winair), formed in 1962, operates scheduled passenger services from Philipsburg, St Maarten, to other islands in the Lesser Antilles, including Saba, St Eustatius, St Kitts, St Barthelemy, Nevis, St Thomas, and Anguilla, together with charters throughout the eastern Caribbean. WIA was acquired by the Government of the Netherlands Antilles in December 1974. Head Office: PO Box 288, St Maarten, Nether lands, Antilles. Executives: president, R. M. Volgers; regional station manager, S. W. de Weever; chief pilot, Capt J. Dormoy; maintenance director, G. Boersma; sales manager, C. A. Buncamper. Employees: 48. Fleet: two Twin Otter 300, one Islander, one Piper T1040. World Airways, formed in 1948 to operate charters, was purchased in 1950 by Edward J. Daly, who held 81 per cent of the shareholding up to the time of his iFLIGHT International, 30 March 1985 tt US Air was the first airline to take delivery of the Boeing 737-300 death in January 1984. The airline, originally certificated as a supplemental carrier, now holds dual authority allowing both scheduled services and char ter operations. Following CAB approval early in 1979, World began scheduled low-fare transcontinental services linking New York, Newark and Baltimore/Washington D.C. with Los Angeles and Oakland on April 12, 1979. Scheduled services to Honolulu, London (Gatwick) and Frankfurt were added in 1981. Passenger and cargo charters are oper ated worldwide on behalf of the U.S. Military Airlift Command. World also operates a maintenance and engineering facility at Oakland (World Air Centre). Head Office: Oakland International Airport, Oakland, California 94614, USA. ^^335-479. Executives: chairman, president, Arthur H. Hutton; senior v-ps: ' marketing & sales, William Jamieson; flight operations, Warren Vest; v-ps: inter national, Franco Mancassola; sales. Bill Ziegler; chief pilot, Jack Brown. Employees: 2,300. Fleet: eight DC-10-30CF, three DC-10-10. Worldways Canada was incorporated in 1974 and provides worldwide passenger charter services. Head Office: 6299 Airport Road, Mississauga, Ontario, Canada L4V 1N3. ^^^06-968590. Executives: president, R. T. Moore; v-ps: market ing, J. Robert McGee; operations, D. Lewis; mainte nance, D. Young. Employees: 300. Fleet: four DC-8-63, one Boeing 707-320C. XP Express Parcel Systems commenced opera tions in January 1982 and provides services for the carriage of small packages on routes linking Maastricht with Amsterdam, Basle, Copenhagen, Geneva, Hamburg, Luton, Milan and Rotterdam. Operations for XP are undertaken by Kondair (Great Britain), Nardi Aero Service (Italy), and Rijnmond Air (Netherlands). Head Office: PO Box 5631, Pilotenstraat 6, NL- 1007 AP Amsterdam, Netherlands. Fleet: Fokker F.27-600/Trislander Kondair); Cessna 414 (Nardi Aero Service); PA-31 Chieftain (Rijnmond Air). Yemen Airways (Yemenia), originally formed in 1963 as the national airline under the title Yemen Airlines, was reorganised and re-titled Yemen Airways Corporation in September 1972, following nationisation. The present name was adopted on July 1, 1978, following the joint establishment early in 1977 of a new airline by the Governments of the Yemen Arab Republic and Saudia Arabia, holding 51 per cent and 49 per cent respectively of the capital. Domestic scheduled passenger and cargo services are operated from Sana'a to Taiz, Hodeida, Baydhan and Mareb, together with international routes to Djibouti, Bahrain, Doha, Jeddah, Sharjah, Kuwait, Muscat, Dhahran, Dubai, Abu Dhabi, Karachi, Damascus, Cairo, Athens, Rome, London (Gatwick), Amsterdam, Frankfurt, Larnaca, and Bombay. Head Office: Zubeiry Street, Sana'a, Yemen Arab Republic. ^0^2204 yemair ye. Executives: chairman, Sahaif M. Saeed; advisor to chairman, Fahmy Hamani; general manager, Rida Hakeem; managers: commercial, Alwan S. Shaibani; finance, Rakeeb A. Saeed; administration, Abdul Hamid Ali Abdo; operations, Capt J. R. Plank; traffic/catering, Attick A. Rahman. Employees: 1,100. Fleet: five Boeing 727-200, one 737-200, two DHC Dash 7. Zaire Cargo was formed in July 1981 and commenced cargo operations in September of that year on routes to Europe. The carrier now operates domestic services and also to Cameroun, Congo, Gabon, Tchad, Burundi and South Africa. Head Office: BP 12097, 222 Avenue de Commerce, Kinshasa, Republic of Zaire. ^^ 21188. Executives: president, David Alhadeff; directors: Cit Lusinde; H.J. Schellrieder; K. Piekatz; vice- president. Cit Yaone Mpiani Nguba. Employees: 129. Fleet: one Lockheed L-100-30. Zambia Airways Corporation was formed in September 1967 as the wholly owned Government airline. Technical and managerial assistance was initially provided by Alitalia and, from 1974, by Aer Lingus until March 1982, when Ethiopian Airlines entered into a three-year operation and technical support agreement with Zambia. Scheduled passenger and cargo services are operated from the capital, Lusaka, to various points in Zambia, together with international routes to Nairobi, Dares-Salaam, Harare, Johannesburg, Mauritius, London, Rome, Larnaca and Bombay. Head Office: P.O. Box 30272, Ndeke House, Haile Selassie Avenue, Lusaka, Zambia. ^^ 43850 Executives: chairman, Patrick Chisanga; managing director, R. L. Bwalya; executive managers: adminis tration and corporate planning, John Nkonde; directors: marketing (acting), Burton Shanzi; financial, Ranji Gunasekera; technical services, Afework Abbai; flight operations, Bahre Makonnenn. Employees: 1,666. Fleet: one DC-10-30, four Boeing 707-320C, one 737-200, two HS.748. Zantop International Airlines was founded in May 1972 by the Zantop family to operate contract cargo services, mainly for the automobile industry. In May 1978 Zantop received authority to operate general cargo charters throughout the USA. In Febru ary 1980 Zantop significantly expanded scheduled services and now provides service connecting 225 city pairs within the USA. Head Office: Detroit-Willow Run Airport, Ypsi- lanti, Michigan 48197, USA. ^^"230-479 zantop ypsi. Executives: president/chairman, Duane A. Zantop; v-ps: James M. Zantop; maintenance, Edward A. Bahn; cargo, Michael K. Neville. Employees: 1,146. Fleet: two DC-8-50, four DC-8-30, 21 Lockheed Electra, nine Convair CV-640. ZAS—see Airline of Egypt (Zarkani Aviation Services). 131
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