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Compass Airlines WORLD AIRLINE DIRECTORY to its scheduled passenger and cargo services. Routes: Panama City to San Jose (Costa Rica); Managua (Nicaragua); San Salvador (EI Salvador); Guatemala City (Guatemala); San Pedro Sula (Hondu ras); Barranquilla, Cartagena and Medellin (Colom bia); Port-au-Prince (Haiti); Santo Domingo (Dominican Republic); Kingston Qamaica) and Miami in the USA. History: Copa was founded in May 1947 by Panamanian business interests. It is now totally Panamanian-owned. Fleet: one Boeing 737-200QC, three 737-200 pas senger, one 737-100. Executives: chairman and president, Alberto Motta; VP, Ricardo Arias; treasurer, Roberto Heutematte; general manager, Pedro Heilbron; managers: mainte nance, Pedro Simpson; commercial/marketing, Moises Veliz; purchasing, Hubert Byone; finance, Pelita de Martinez; airport services, Jorge Lizarraga; chief pilot, Capt Anel Wong. Employees: 620. Head office: Avenida Justo Arosemena y Calle 39, PO Box 1572, Panama City 1, Panama. Tel: +507 (27) 4551; fax: +507 (27) 1952; SITA: PTYDGCM. Compass Airlines (YM) went into voluntary receiver ship and ceased operations in March 1993, having been re-launched by Southern Cross Airlines, under its original name. History: Southern Cross Airlines Holdings was formed in response to the de-regulation of Australia's domestic airline industry. It was about to launch a fourth domestic airline, Southern Cross Airlines, when the established Compass Airlines suspended opera tions. Acquiring Compass Airlines on 14 February, 1992, Southern Cross merged the two operations and re-launched the carrier with the Compass name, logo and other assets. Fleet: two McDonnell Douglas MDC MD-83, three MD-82. On order: two MD-83 for delivery in 1993. Executives: chairman, Southern Cross Airlines, Sir Leo Hielscher; deputy chairman, Douglas Reid; Com pass Airlines: CEO, Sam Coats; director of operations, Capt Len Heard; general managers, finance and administration, Dr Bob Townsend; marketing, Tom Volz; customer services, Barry Cooney. Employees: 650. Head office: 433 Boundary Street, Spring Hill, Queensland 4000, Australia. Mail: PO Box 610, Spring Hill, Qld 4004, Australia. Tel: +61 (7) 835 1133; fax: +61 (7) 831 0109. Conair (Consolidated Aircraft) (KC) operates charter and inclusive-tour flights from Scandinavia to points in Europe and North and West Africa, Mexico, Florida and the Caribbean Area, exclusively for the Simon Spies travel organisation, owner of the airline. History: Conair was formed in October 1964. Fleet: three Airbus A300B4, six A320-200. (The A300s are leased out.) Executives: managing director, Verner Moeller; as sistant managing directors: operations, Jens Gregersen; maintenance, Joergen V Pedersen; manager, opera tions/sales and traffic, Ove Hansen. Employees: 475. Head office: Hangar 276, Copenhagen Airport, DK-2791, Dragoer, Denmark. Tel: +45 32 45 45 00; fax: +45 32 45 12 20; telex: 31423 CONAIR DK. Condor Flugdienst (DE) is a wholly owned subsidiary of Lufthansa. The carrier concentrates on charter and inclusive-tour operations. History: Condor was formed in 1961 by the merger of Deutsche Flugdienst and Condor Luftreederei. Fleet: one Airbus A310-200, two A310-300, eight Boeing 757-200, nine 737-300, three McDonnell Douglas DC-10-30. On order: three Boeing 767-300, nine 757-200, eight 757-300. Executives: joint managing directors: Dr Franz Schoiber, Dr Claus Gillman, Rudolf von Oertzen; directors: finance, Dipl Kfm Manfred Schmitz; flight operations Dieter Becker; maintenance/engineering, Dipl Ing Reinhard Kipke; marketing, Riemund Scheck- eler; sales, Wilfried Meyer. Employees: 1,085. Head office: Hans-Bocklerstrasse 7, 6078 Neu Is- enburg 1, Germany. Tel: +49 (6102) 2450; fax: +49 (6102) 245261; telex: 417679 CFGG D. Connie Kalitta Services, see American International Airways. Contact Air Flugdienst (3T) is a Stuttgart-based charter carrier also operating domestic and European passenger services on behalf of Lufthansa CityLine. History: the company was formed in 1974. Fleet: two Beech King Air 200, two BAe Jetstream 31, one Cessna Citation V, one de Havilland Dash 8-100, five Dash 8-300. Conair operates an Airbus fleet from Scandinavia Executives: owner and president Gunter Eheim; general manager, Heinz Landes; flight operations manager, Reinhard Lieber; technical manager, Dieter Leuwer. Employees: 185. Head office: Echterdinger Str 30, D-7000 Stuttgart 70, Plieningen, Germany. Tel: +49 (711) 1 67 65-0; fax: +49 (711) 711 1 67 65 65. Conti-Flug International Airlines (DD), the German regional carrier, is the third operator using the BAe 146-200 into London City Airport, on its new scheduled services from Berlin. Conti-Flug was formed in 1964. Fleet: two Beech King Air 200, two BAe 146-200, two BAe 125-400, two Canadair CL-601 Challenger, one Learjet 35A. Executives: managing directors: finance and admin istration, Wolfgang Bornheim; flight operations, Markus Schacher; marketing and sales, Peter Fried; technical director, Kevin Pinto. Employees: 130. Head office: Theodor Huess, Ring 20, 5000 Cologne 1, Germany. Tel: +49 (221) 120222; fax: +49 (221) 1124192; telex: 8873691 CONT D. Continental Airlines (CO), based in Houston, Texas, announced in November 1992 that Air Canada and a Fort Worth-based investment partnership, Air Part ners, agreed to invest $450 million in the airline, allowing Continental to complete its financial restruc turing, emerge from Chapter 11 bankruptcy and arrange a network of worldwide alliances. Continental filed a re-organisation plan based on cash infusion and, if it is approved, the carrier expects to emerge from bankruptcy by June 1993. Routes: scheduled passenger services, covering 90 US domestic and 56 international destinations. It added Houston-Paris; New York Newark-Madrid, Frankfurt, Munich; Houston-Quito, Leon, Little Rock and Midland in 1992. The airline has four major traffic hubs at Cleveland, Denver, Houston and Newark. Guam and Honolulu are the Pacific hubs. Its international network serves Australia, Canada, Cen tral America, Ecuador, France, Germany, Indonesia, Japan, Mexico, Micronesia, New Zealand, the Philip pines, Spain and the UK. An extensive network of domestic feeder services is operated under the name Continental Express. These are provided by the division resulting from the following merged carriers: Britt Airways (Chicago, Cleveland and Houston), Bar Harbor Airlines (New ark) and Rocky Mountain Airways. History: Continental's formation dates from 15 July, 1934, when it began services as Varney Speed Lines. In May, 1937, Varney purchased the Denver-Pueblo route of Wyoming Air Service and moved its head quarters to Denver. The name Continental Airlines was adopted later the same year. Development contin ued until the 1955 award of the Chicago-Los Angeles route (via Kansas City and Denver) marked the company's full transition to a mainline trunk carrier. In October 1981, Texas Air, parent company of Texas International Airlines, acquired a controlling interest in Continental and on 31 October, 1982, Continental and Texas International started to operate as a single carrier under the name of Continental. Texas Interna tional, known until 1969 as Trans-Texas Airways and formed originally in 1940 as Aviation Enterprises, commenced scheduled services in October 1947. In September 1983, Continental filed for protection under Chapter 11 and, as a result, the company's domestic network was reduced from 78 points to 25 and its workforce declined from 12,000 to 4,200. The company's financial position improved dramatically and by the end of 1984 the airline was offering more capacity than before its Chapter 11 filing. In Septem ber, 1985, Continental filed a plan of re-organisation with the US Bankruptcy Court and a year later emerged from Chapter 11 protection. In February 1987 the operations of the People Express Group and New York Air were merged into Continental. The airline's operations doubled as a result, with consider able difficulties being experienced during the consoli dation. A loss of $258 million was incurred in 1987, but the airline had returned to profitability by the third quarter of 1988. Continental's owner Frank Lorenzo sold his share in the airline to SAS in August 1990, when a new CEO was appointed. Continental again filed for Chapter 11, in December 1990. The Seattle-Tokyo route was sold to American Airlines. Fleet: 23 Airbus A300B4, six Boeing 747-200, one 747-100, 89 727 (100/200), 91 737(100/200/300), ten McDonnell Douglas DC-10-30, seven DC-10-10, 34 DC-9, 64 MD-80. Executives: vice-chairman and CEO, president and CEO Continental Airlines Holdings, Robert R Fer guson III; president and COO, Lewis Jordan; executive VPs: corporate affairs and COO of CTA, Charles T Goolsbee; marketing, John W Nelson; senior VPs: and CFO, John Luth; human resources, Robert Allen; customer service, Thomas Kalil; technical operations, Raymond Valeika; civic/airport affairs, Sam Ashmore; pricing and scheduling, J Timothy Griffin. Employees: 43,000. Head office: PO Box 4607, 2929 Allen Parkway, Houston, Texas 77019, USA. Tel +1 (713) 834 5000; fax: +1 (713) 834 2087; telex: 790275. Continental Express (CO) is the operating name of Britt Airways, the regional carrier of Continental Airlines, which operates its feeder network of com muter services from hub cities at Cleveland, Denver, Newark and Houston. History: the following carriers. Bar Harbor Airlines, Britt Airways and Rocky Mountain Airways, which operated Continental's commuter routes, became a single division of Continental Airlines as Continental Express in August 1990. Fleet: 37 ATR 42, 15 Beech 1900, five de Havilland Dash 7, 33 Embraer EMB-120 Brasilia. Executives: president, Stephen J Kolski; VPs cus tomer services, John J Prendergast; operations, Donald Smith. Employees: 2,100. Head office: Gateway II, Suite 600, 1533 JFK Blvd, Houston TX 77032, USA. Tel: +1 (713) 985 2700; fax: +1 (713) 590 3820. Cook Islands International suspended operations in January 1991. COPA see Compania Panamena de Aviacion. Corsair (SS) formerly Corse Air International, pro vides international charter air services to North America and throughout Europe and the Mediterra nean area. History: the company was formed in 1981. 84 FLIGHT INTERNATIONAL 24 - 30 March, 1993
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