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WORLD AIRLINE DIRECTORY ^^- 20239 Bahamasair. Executives: chairman, Hon Phillip M. Bethel; deputy chairman, William C. Allen; directors; Harold Longley, Basil G. O'Brien; Philip P. Smith; Vylma B. Thompson; secretary, Frank G. Bartlett; general manager, Carlton A. Cartwright. Employees: 600+. Fleet: four Boeing 737-200, four HS.748, two Shrike Commander 500S. Balair operates passenger and cargo charters and inclusive-tour flights to destinations in Europe, the Far East, North and South America, East and West Africa. Balair was formed in 1953 and began oper ations the same year. Swissair originally held a 36 per cent interest in Balair, but this has since been increased to 57 per cent. Head Office: 4002 Basle-Mulhouse Airport, Switzerland. ^.JK" 62407. 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: 370. Fleet: one DC-10-30, one DC-9-30, two MD-80, one Airbus A310. Balkan Bulgarian Airlines operates scheduled passenger and cargo services to 44 points in Europe, Asia, and Africa, together with an eight-point domes tic network. Balkan is also responsible for agricul tural aviation services. The company, known until 1968 as TABSO, started services in July 1947 as a joint Bulgarian-Soviet company, but became a fully Bulgarian operation in 1954. 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 services began in February 1972 and now link Dacca with Chittagong, Cox's Bazar, Sylhet, Jessore, Ishurdi, and Saidpur in Bangladesh, and international services operate to Singapore, Kuala Lumpur, Bangkok, Rangoon, Kathmandu, Calcutta, Bombay, Karachi, Dubai, Abu Dhabi, Kuwait, Muscat, Doha, Dhahran, Jeddah, Tripoli, Athens, Rome, Amsterdam, and London. Head Office: Biman Bhavan, Motijheel Commer cial Area, Dacca 2, Bangladesh. ^^65835BJ. Executives: chairman and managing director, Manzoor Ul-Karim; deputy m-d, Air Cdre M. Wahidullah; directors: marketing/sales, M. A. Rouf; finance, Q, A. Zaman; planning, Capt M. Rahman; flight operations, Capt Mazhan. Employees: 4,500. Fleet: three DC-10-30, one Boeing 707-320B, four 707-320C, two Fokker F.28-4000, three F.27-600. Bayu Indonesia Air operates cargo charter services to points throughout the world from Kemayoran Airport, Jakarta. Bayu specialise in the carriage of livestock. Operations began in 1977. Head Office: PO Box 3586, Jalan Hayam Wuruk 4JX, Jakarta-Pusat, Indonesia. s*f 44507 BYAIR IA. Employees: 82. Fleet: two Canadair CL-44D, two Douglas DC-6A. BCal—see British Caledonian Airways. Best Airlines, a US Part 121 scheduled airline formed on June 28, 1982, operates a route network serving Detroit, Cleveland, Hartford, Buffalo, Rochester, Syracuse and Philadelphia. Head Office: 207 Grandview Drive, Ft. Mitchell, Kentucky 41017, USA. „*#»" 2799. Executives: president, William J. Yung; executive vice-president, C. Michael Dacy; treasurer, James W. Thelen. Employees: 100. Fleet: two DC-9-10. Birmingham Executive Airways was formed to provide scheduled business-class services, initially on former British Airways' European routes, out of Birmingham. Operations commenced in June 1983 to Zurich and Copenhagen. Services to Milan and Geneva were added in November 1983 and April 1984 respectively. BEA operates services from Birmingham to Cork and Glasgow on behalf of Brit ish Airways. Licences are held for Stockholm, Stut tgart, Frankfurt, Dusseldorf, Amsterdam, Paris, Oslo and Gothenburg. The airline is expected to launch services shortly to Amsterdam, Dusseldorf, Frankfurt and Stuttgart, using grants of £450,000 per route offered by British Airways to its smaller competitors. BEA became the first British operator of the Saab- Fairchild 340 in February 1985. Head Office: Forward House, Birmingham Airport, Coventry Road, Birmingham B26 3QJ, Great Britain. ^^"337215 beafwd g. Executives: managing director, Capt Trefor G. Jones; directors: finance, David R. Lynch; operations, Capt D. "Jeep" Holmes; technical, John Edwards; marketing, Anthony Leyland. Employees: 100. Fleet: three BAe Jetstream 31. Bloodstock Air Services provide charter flights for the carriage of livestock throughout Australia, using a Boeing 727-100C aircraft. It is believed that the airline ceased operations in 1985. Bond Helicopters (formerly known as Management Aviation and North Scottish Helicopters) provides primarily offshore oil and gas support services, as well as undertaking lighthouse and light-vessel relief work. Major UK bases are maintained at Aberdeen, Longside, Lincolnshire, Great Yarmouth, Blackpool, and Swansea. Formed in 1961, the company initially operated general helicopter services on passenger charters, aerial survey, forestry, power line patrol and crop spraying before commencing offshore support services in 1973. Head Office: Bourn Airfield, Cambridge CB3 7TQ, Great Britain. -*^' 817237 Rotors G Executives: chairman, K. H. H. Jones; managing director, S. W. Bond; general manager, K. J. Shep- pardson; commercial manager, J. D. I. Bell; directors: technical, V. J. King; financial, J. G. May. Employees: 425. Fleet: six Aerospatiale AS.332L Super Pumas, seven Aerospatiale SA.365N, six SA. 365C, five Sikorsky S-76, eight MBB BO105D. On order: four AS.332L Super Pumas, five SA.365N. Bouraq Indonesia Airlines operates scheduled passenger and cargo services throughout the Central and Eastern part of the Indonesian Archipelago, linking major points in Java, Kalimantan, Sulawesi, Maluku, Bali, the Nusa Tenggara Islands, and Tawau in East Malaysia. P.T. Bali International Air Service is a subsidiary, operating regional charters to neighbouring countries and pioneer services to remote areas in Kalimantan. Bouraq was formed in April 1970 as a private national airline corporation. Head Office: PO Box 2965, Jalan Angkasa, 1-3 Jakarta, Indonesia. ^fif 41247 BO IA. Executives: president/chairman, J. A. Sumendap; v-ps business affairs, D. R. Sumendap; finance, H. A. Tucunan; operational & technical, G. B. Rungkat; general affairs, Moeljanto Djojomartono. Employees: 796. Fleet: four Viscount 800, 15 HS.748, three Casa 212, one DC-3. Braathens South America and Far East Air Transport A/S (Braathens SAFE) Undertakes charter flights but the main effort is concentrated on a network of scheduled domestic services from Oslo to Stavanger, Kristiansand, Alesund, Kristiansund, Molde, Roros and Trondheim, plus Stavanger, Bergen, and Alesund to Bodo, Evenes, and Tromso. Subsidiaries include Atlas Resor AB (inclusive- tours), Paddans Rosebureau AB (travel agents) and SAGA Solheiser (inclusive tours). The company was formed in 1946 by the Braathens shipping company to operate long-haul charters. A scheduled service to Hong Kong was operated from 1949 until 1954, when SAS took over the route. Head Office: Ruselokkveien 26, Oslo 2, Norway. ^#*" 71595. Executives: president, B. G. Braathen; v-ps: oper ations and maintenance, E. Fjeldstad; international operations, E. G. Braathen; sales, A. C. Fougli; finance, P. H. Christiansen. Employees: 1,900. Fleet: two Boeing 767-200, ten 737-200, four Fokker F.28-1000. On order: Six 737-200. Bradley Air Services, founded in 1946 as Bradley Flying School, undertakes specialised Arctic charter operations within the Northwest Territories and provides pilot training and Piper aircraft sales and service. Scheduled passenger services are operated under the name First Air, which is one of Canada's largest local service airlines. Scheduled services are operated to 20 points in Ontario, Quebec, the North west Territories, Greenland, and the USA. Head Office: Carp Airport, Carp, Ontario K0A 1LO, Canada. ^^053-3158. Employees: 250. Fleet: three HS.748, four DC-3, eight DHC-6 Twin Otter, one Citation I, one Beech G-185, two Beaver, one Cessna 180. Braniff Airways, the Dallas-based US major carrier originally founded by brothers Tom and Paul Braniff in 1928, and which ceased operations on May 12, 1982, recommenced tailored-down operations in March 1984, with financial backing from Hyatt Inc. Braniff presently operates a hub-and-spoke network from Dallas/Forth Worth, serving Boston, Chicago, Denver, Kansas City, Las Vegas, Phoenix, New York, San Francisco, and Washington D.C. It oper ates a smaller network from Kansas City, serving major cities on both coasts. Head Office: 7701 Lemmon Avenue, Dallas, Texas, 75209, USA. ^^73376. Executives: president, Ronald Ridgeway. Employees: 1,375. Fleet: 20 Boeing 727-200. Bristow Helicopter Group, has expanded into virtually every area of helicopter activity, providing, on charter, helicopters, equipment, and crews for operational services both onshore and offshore, in support of commercial, industrial, and military tasks around the world. The Group also trains pilots and engineers, provides operational and technical consul tancy services, and offers engineering support services ranging from inspection and surveys through routine maintenance, overhaul, and repair to total reconstruction. Bristow Helicopters, through its subsidiary and associated companies worldwide, operates approximately 200 helicopters and a fleet of 40 fixed-wing aircraft. Head Office: Redhill Aerodrome, Redhill, Surrey, Great Britain. ^^- 21913. Executives: chairman, Alan E. Bristow; managing director, and chief executive, B. Collins; directors: technical, W. B. Petrie; operations, Capt A. C. Gordon; financial, J. A. Howard; commercial, C. W. R. Fry; administration, A. J. Leahy; regional Africa, Middle East and Defence contracts, Capt J. B. Shaw; 58 FLIGHT INTERNATIONAL, 29 March 1986
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