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WORLD AIRLINE DIRECTORY Airport, 2015 Luxembourg, GD of Luxembourg. 2272. Caribbean Air Cargo, which is owned by the governments of Trinidad and Tobago and Barbados, operates non-scheduled cargo services from points in the Eastern Caribbean to Miami, New York, Houston, and San Juan. History: The company was formed on December 28, 1979. Fleet: two Boeing 707-320C. Executives: chairman, Peter Look-Hong; managing director, Kingsley Clarke; director technical services, David Barrow; general manager USA, Colin Mayers; manager administration, Hudson Husbands; New York manager, Edward Harracksingh. Employees: 275. Head Office: Grantley Adams International Airport, Christ Church, Barbados. ^0^ 2417 AIRCARGO WB. Cathay Pacific Airways, Hong Kong's flag carrier, operates an extensive network of scheduled passenger and cargo services from Hong Kong to Abu Dhabi, Amsterdam, Auckland, Bahrain, Bandar Seri Begawan, Bangkok, Beijing, Bombay, Brisbane, Denpasar, Dhahran, Dubai, Frankfurt, Fukuoka, Jakarta, Kaohsiung, Kota Kinabalu, Kuala Lumpur, London (Gatwick), Manila, Melbourne, Nagoya, Osaka, Paris (Orly), Penang, Perth, Rome, San Fran cisco, Seoul, Shanghai, Singapore, Sydney, Taipei, Tokyo, and Vancouver. Major shareholders are Swire Pacific (50-2 per cent), the Hong Kong and Shanghai Banking Corporation (16-4 per cent), and China International Trust and Investment Corporation (12-5 per cent). The company is listed on the Hong Kong stock exchange. History: Founded in 1946, the airline initially oper ated several DC-3s on freight and, later, passenger services on a route network which stretched from Shanghai to Sydney. Since 1948 the airline has been controlled and managed by the Swire Group. Follow ing increases in and reorganisation of share capital between 1970 and 1975, and the purchase in 1980 of a 15 per cent shareholding from British Airways Associ ated Companies, Cathay Holdings (which is a wholly owned subsidiary of the Swire Group's major public company, Swire Pacific) took over 70 per cent of the issued capital. Fleet: five Boeing 747-300, eight 747-200B, two 747-200F, 11 L10U TriStar. On order: one 747-300, two 747-400. Executives: chairman, H. M. P. Miles; managing director, P. D. A. Sutch; deputy managing director, P. Tsai; directors: commercial, R. I. Eddington; market ing, R. Cobbold; finance, W. F. Houstoun; engineering, S. John; flight operations, M. Hardy. Employees: 8,511. Head Office: Swire House, 9 Connaught Road, Central, Hong Kong. s^1 CXAIR HX82345. Cayman Airway's scheduled passenger services link George Town (Grand Cayman) with Kingston/ Montego Bay, Miami, Houston, Tampa, and Atlanta. Local services are provided to Little Cayman and Cayman Brae. Passenger charter flights are also oper ated between the Cayman Islands and Atlanta, Baltimore, New York, and Philadelphia. History: The airline was formed in July 1968 to replace Cayman Brae Airways, a subsidiary of the Costa Rican airline LACSA. Original shareholders were LACSA with 49 per cent and the Cayman Islands Government (51 per cent), but in December 1977 the airline became wholly Government-owned. Fleet: two Boeing 727-200, one Shorts 330. (One 727-100 is leased until April 1988.) Executives: chairman, Arthur Hunter; managing director, Florentino Gonzalez; directors: N. Cruick- shank; K- Nixon; S. Hislop; T. Jefferson; N. Bodden; H. Watler; R. Ground. Employees: 325. Head Office: PO Box 1101G, Grand Cayman, British West Indies. 4272. CC Air, a US commuter carrier, operates scheduled services as part of the Piedmont Commuter System. Operations are centred on Charlotte, with a total of 20 points served in North and South Carolina, Georgia, Tennessee, Virginia, and West Virginia. History: The company was originally formed in 1979 as Sunbird Airlines, commencing operations in 1980. In June 1983 the airline merged with the publicly held Air Transportation Holding Company (Atlantic Express). The company adopted its present name in 1986. Fleet: eight Shorts 360, 14 Jetstream 31. Executives: president, Roy H. Hagerty; vice- presidents: finance, Virginia Berinett; operations, Emmett C. Merricks; sales, John P. Reed; directors: traffic, J. Edward Bacon Jnr; customer service, Dale A. McGowan; maintenance, George J. Starns; finance, Carroll M. Clayton; internal audit control, Robert Coe; flight operations, Donald R. Norton. Employees: 400. Head Office: 9401 Arrow Point Boulevard, Suite 300, Charlotte, North Carolina, USA. Ceskoslovenske Aerolinie (CSA), the national airline of Czechoslovakia, operates an extensive network of routes linking Prague with all European capitals (except Oslo), the Near, Middle, and Far East, North and West Africa, and North and Central Amer ica. Domestic services operate to all major points including Bratislava, Karlovy Vary, Kosice, Ostrava, Piestany, and Tatry. History: CSA was founded in 1923. Privately owned Ceskoslovenska Letecka Spolecnost (CLS) was founded in 1927, and the present state-owned CSA was the result of a merger of the two airlines in 1945. Fleet: four Ilyushin 11-62, six I1-62M, three Tu-154M, two 11-18, 13 Tupolev Tu-134A, six Yakovlev Yak-40. On order: four Tu-154M. Executives: director general, Ing Jindrich Kopriva; deputy director-generals: flight operations, Ing Jaroslav Stecha; technical, Ing Karel Cvacka; com mercial, Ing Stefan Havala; economics/finance, Ing Petr Zajicek; personnel, Ing Pavel Verner; public relations, Ing Zdenek Kaspar. Employees: 5,522. Head Office: Airport Ruzyne, 16008 Prague 6, Czechoslovakia. 120338 CSA C. Challenge Air Cargo, is a Miami-based carrier oper ating scheduled and charter cargo services. At present the company provides scheduled flights from Miami to Colombia, Panama, Costa Rica, Peru, and Paraguay. History: The company was formed in 1985 as a wholly owned subsidiary of Challenge Air Transport. In December 1986 the carrier was certificated as a US all-cargo airline and severed connections with its former parent company. Fleet: two Boeing 707-320C, one DC-8-63. Executives: chairman and president, B. F. Spohrer; executives vice-president, John F. Bonner, Jnr; v-ps: finance, E. A. Calt; technical services, John F. Porter; traffic and sales, Hector Ponte; chief pilot, Capt Carlos Frias. Employees: 140. Head Office: PO Box 52-2933, Miami International Airport, Miami, Florida 33152, USA. ^^ 153998 CHALLENGE MIA. Challenge Air International operates passenger services from Miami to Honduras, El Salvador, Puerto Rico, Belize, and Jamaica. The carrier provides both scheduled and charter services. Operations com menced in 1978. Fleet: one 727-200, one 727-100. Head Office: PO Box 52-2933, Miami, Florida 33152, USA. Channel Express (Air Services), formerly trading as Express Air Services, operates cargo services from Bournemouth-Hurn Airport, including regular flights to the Channel Islands and night mail services to Bris tol and Liverpool. Ad hoc charters are undertaken in the UK, Europe, and North Africa. History: Channel Express was originally founded in January 1978. Fleet: four Herald. Executives: managing director, P. Meeson; freight operations director, J. Adams; engineering director, A. Menzies; flight manager, A. Smith; commercial execu tive, W. Mayes; financial director, A. Bullock. Employees: 40. Head Office: Bournemouth Hum Airport, Christ- church, Dorset BH23 6DL, UK. 417227. China Airlines (CAL), the national airline of Taiwan, operates scheduled international passenger and cargo services from Taipei to Hong Kong, Bangkok, Manila, Fukuoka, Singapore, Kuala Lumpur, Jeddah, Dhahran, Dubai, Jakarta, Tokyo, Okinawa, Seoul, Honolulu, Los Angeles, New York, Vienna, and Amsterdam. Domestic destinations include Makung, Tainan, Kaohsiung, Chiayi, and Hualien. CAL was the first airline to operate both the Airbus and Boeing 767, and was the first Asian oper ator of the latter type. History: The carrier was formed in 1959 and became the national airline of Taiwan in 1965. Fleet: three Boeing 747-200B, one 747-200B Combi, two 747-200F, four 747SP, six Airbus A300B4, two 767-200, three 737-200. On order: six 747-400. Executives: chairman, Gen Wu Yeuh; president, Gen Chi Jung-chun; v-ps: V. C. Lee; Peter S. N. Bien; Capt Yu-sheng; directors: operations, Tai Su-ching; personnel, L. S. Chung; marketing, Eugene A. C. Chan; public relations, Larry L. C. Lin; comptroller, T. Y. Chang; technical services, Sun Ming-kuen; legal and insurance, S. C. Wang; traffic and services, Jimmy C. M. Lo. Employees: 5,888. Head Office: 131 Nanking East Road, Section 3, Taipei, Taiwan. 11346. 61 Choson Minhang (CAAK) is the state airline of the Democratic People's Republic of Korea. Scheduled passenger and cargo services now link Pyongyang with Kaesong, Wonsan, Haijoo, Sineuijoo, Gangge, Haheung, Hyesan, and Chungjin. There are also inter national routes to Beijing, Irkutsk, Khabarovsk, and Moscow. Charter services are operated to points in Asia, Africa, and Europe. History: CAAK was formed in 1954 to succeed SOKAO, the joint Soviet-North Korean airline estab lished in 1950 to operate scheduled services between Pyongyang and Chita in the USSR. Fleet: four Ilyushin I1-62M, one 11-62, four Tupolev Tu-154B, two Tu-134B, four 11-18, eight Antonov An- 24, five 11-14. Executives: president, Hwang Ryong Hwan; foreign affairs director, Li-Sung Jin. Head Office: Sunan Airport, Sunan district, Pyongyang, Democratic People's Republic of Korea. Cimber Air Denmark operates scheduled feeder services linking Sonderborg with Copenhagen on behalf of Danair. The airline also operates a scheduled international service from Esbjerg to Humberside under its own name. Charter flights are provided. Cimber Data was formed in 1985 to market electronic data systems for airlines and industry. History: The company was formed in 1950 by I. L. Nielsen, and began scheduled feeder operations from Sonderborg in 1963. In November 1971 these services were integrated into the network of Danair, the consortium formed in April 1971 by SAS, Maersk Air, and Cimber Air. Shareholding in Danair is 5 per cent. Fleet: two Fokker F.28-3000, two Aerospatiale 262, three ATR42-300, one King Air 200. Executives: president I. L. Nielsen; managing direc tor, H. I. Nielsen; financial director, H. Thomsen; technical manager, T. Holstein; operations manager, E. Koch; sales manager, J. Bauerfeind. Employees: 100. Head Office: Sonderborg Airport, DK-6400, Sonder borg, Denmark. ^0^ 52315. City Express, operates high-frequency scheduled services from Toronto Island Airport (in downtown Toronto) to Ottawa, Montreal, Detroit, New York (Newark), and London (Ontario). FLIGHT INTERNATIONAL, 26 March 1988
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