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1993
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Farner Air Transport WORLD AIRLINE DIRECTORY History: the company began charter operations in June 1957 and scheduled services in January 1965. Fleet: six Boeing 737-200, two 737-100, three McDonnell Douglas MD-82, one MD-83. Executives: authorised representative, Gen H I Chiang; directors: developing and planning, S C Chang; operations, Capt C W Lee; maintenance, N Jang; sales and traffic, Y C Yen; finance, C Y Lee; administration, M C Yang; personnel, F B Lee; security, P J Chen. Employees: 1,196. Head office: No 5, Alley 123, Lane 405, Tun Hwa N. Road, FAT Building, Taipei 10592, Taiwan, Repub lic of China. Tel: +886 (2) 712 1555; fax: +886 (2) 712 2428; telex: 11639 FAT C. Farner Air Transpon (FAT) operates regular express- parcels services from Switzerland to the main hubs. Routes: Basle and Geneva to Brussels; Basle to Cologne and Paris. History: Famer Air Transport was founded in 1984 as an air-taxi and express-cargo airline. Fleet: one Cessna 404, one de Havilland DHC-6-300 Twin Otter, one Embraer EMB-110 Bandeirante, two Fokker F27-400. Executives: managing director, Guy Girard; director sales and marketing, Peter Hofer; managers: opera tions, Geoffrey Evison; technical, Claudio Lasagni; financial, Alain Muller; chief pilot, Francis Pfam- matter. Employees: 45. Head office: Postfach, CH-4030 Basel Airport, Swit zerland. Tel: +41 (61) 325 30 67; fax: +41 (61) 325 3056; telex: 965643 FATB CH. SITA: BSLBRSR. Fast Air Carrier (UD), a Chilean cargo operator, provides cargo charters throughout North and South America, as well as scheduled services. Routes: linking Santiago with Bogota, Frankfurt, Miami, New York, Panama City and Sao Paulo. History: Fast Air was formed in January 1978 by a group of Chilean businessmen. Fleet: one Boeing 707-320C. Executives: chairman/president, Juan Cueto S; exec utive VP, Enrique Cueto P; engineering/maintenance and operations VP, Luis Sandoval V; marketing/sales, Ms Ana Maria Erbetta G; financial manager, Juan Jose Cueto P. Employees: 56. Operations centre: Building 2141 Door N-12, NW 20th Street, Miami International Airport. Head office: Cargo Terminal, Comodoro A Merino Benitez International Airport, Santiago, Chile. Tel: +56 (2) 601430; fax: +56 (2) 601 9701; telex: 1290 CZ FUAIR. Faucett see Compania de Aviacion Faucett. Federal Express (FM), the world's largest express transport company, carries an average 1.6 million items each working day. The carrier's main sorting centre is at Memphis International Airport. By 1992, the airline served more than 175 countries, including destinations in Africa, Asia, Australia, Europe, North and South America. From 1 March, 1993, a daily express package and freight service has been operated from Prestwick, Scotland. DC-lOs will serve Paris Charles de Gaulle, Prestwick and London Stansted, Boeing 727s replacing widebodies connecting Frank furt, Cologne and Milan Malpensa. Federal Express has US regional sorting centres at Newark, NJ, Oakland and Los Angeles, California and Indianapolis. History: formed in 1971 by current chairman, president and CEO, Frederick W Smith. Operations began in 1973, using Falcon 20 business jets. Follow ing CAB deregulation of air cargo in November 1977, authority to operate larger aircraft was received and a fleet of Boeing 727 and McDonnell Douglas DC-10 aircraft was progressively assembled. Federal Express invented the hub-and-spoke distribution system. Fleet: 81 Boeing 727-100, 80 727-200, three 747- 100, eight 747-200, 11 McDonnell Douglas DC DC-10-10, 16 DC-10-30, ten MD-11, ten Cessna Caravan 208A, 155 Caravan 208B, 51 Caravan 208BI3, 24 Fairchild F-27-500, eight F-27-600. On order: 25 Airbus A300F4-600R, three McDonnell Douglas MD- 11. (Operations of the company's large fleet of single-engined Cessna Caravans are contracted out to Baron Aviation, Corporate Air, Mountain Air Cargo, PM Air, Union Flights and Wiggins Airways.) Executives: chairman, CEO and president, Freder ick W Smith; executive VP-worldwide customers operations, Thomas R Oliver; senior VP, and CFO, Alan B Graf; information and telecomms, Dennis H Jones; legal, Kenneth R Masterson; and president Business Logistics Statistics, Robert P May; and president FedEx Aeronautics, T Allan McArtor; Asia, Pacific and Middle East, Joseph C M McCarty III; Europe, Mediterranean and Africa, Kenneth R Newell; Finnair: two MD-lls in service, two on order and chief personnel officer, James A Perkins; market ing and comms, Carole A Presley; sales and customer services, William J Razzouk; North and South Amer ica, Jeffrey R Rodek; central support services, Mary Alice Taylor; air operations, Theodore L Weise; catalogue and remail services, T Michael Glenn. Employees: 91,000. Head office: PO Box 727, Memphis, Tennessee 38194, USA. Tel: +1 (901) 369 3600; fax: +1 (901) 346 1013; telex: 534684. Field Aviation merged into WDL Flugdienst in September 1991. Finnair (AY), Finland's national carrier, operates an extensive network of international scheduled services from Helsinki. New services to Riga, Latvia and Tallin, Estonia operate from Helsinki and a service to Kiev in the Ukraine is planned. Routes: long-haul flights are operated to Bangkok, Singapore, Tokyo and Beijing in the Far East and to Los Angeles, Montreal and New York in North America. The twice-weekly Tokyo and once-weekly Beijing flights are operated non-stop across Siberia. Finnair flies to 22 domestic destinations. Charter flights are also operated to more than 40 destinations. Co-operation partners of Finnair are JAS (Japan Air System), SAS, Swissair and Aeroflot. A preliminary agreement with Aeroflot was made in April 1991, to set up a joint-venture company to develop interna tional traffic from St Petersburg. History: Finnair, known until 1968 as Aero, was founded in November 1923 and began operations in March 1924. Seaplanes were used exclusively until 1936, when the first airports were built in Finland. The Government now has a 70% holding. Fleet: two Airbus A300B4, six ATR 72 (leased to Karair), one Boeing 737 (leased), two McDonnell Douglas MD-11, five DC-10-30, three MD-87, 14 MD-82/83, 12 DC-9-50, five DC-9-40, six Saab 340. On order: one ATR 72 (for lease to Karair), two MD-11, one MD-82. Executives: president, Antti Potila; executive VPsxommercial, Timo Mannermaa; staff, Henrik Arle; operations, Esko Kukkonen; technical, Jouko Malen; subsidiaries, Mauri Annala. Employees: 8,175. Head office: Dagmarinkatu 4, 00100 Helsinki, Fin land. Mail - PL 278, 00101 Helsinki, Finland. Tel: +358 (0) 81 881; fax: +358 (0) 818 8736; telex: 124404 FNAIR SF. Finnaviation (FA) operates a scheduled domestic network with over 300 flights weekly, serving Helsinki and regional towns. Finnaviation is a wholly-owned subsidiary of Finnair. Routes: Enontekio, Helsinki, Ivalo, Kokkola, Kuopio, Mariehamn, Oulu, Rovaniemi, Tampere, Turku, Varkaus, Vaasa. History: formed in 1950 as Lentohuolto Oy. As a result of growing international operations the name was changed to Wihuri Oy Finnwings. In 1979, the name was changed to Finnaviation after the company merged with Oy Nordair Ab. Fleet: five Saab 340A, one 340B. Executives: managing director, Paavo Turtiainen; directors: marketing, Ari Kantola; flight operations, Pekka Jervi; financial manager, Lia Toivonen; techni cal, Seppo Turtiainen. Employees: 198. Head office: Teknikontie, Portti 3, PO Box 39, 01531 Vantaa, Finland. Tel: +358 (0) 870941; fax: +358 (0) 8709455; telex: 121931 FABIZ SF. First Air (7F), Canada's largest independent regional carrier, is a division of Bradley Air Services, providing scheduled and charter services throughout Canada, specialising in Arctic operations. Scheduled services are provided to 23 points in Canada and Greenland. History: now owned by Makivik, the company was founded in 1946 as Bradley Flying School. Fleet: four Boeing 727-100C, seven BAe HS.748-2A, one HS.748-2B, five de Havilland DHC-6-300 Twin Otter, two DHC-2 Beaver. Executives: president, Kamal B Hanna; executive VP: John W Crichton; VP commercial operations, Andrew G Campbell; senior directors: flight opera tions, Patrick T Doyle; maintenance James W Riddoch; CFO, Steven R Rourke. Employees: 550. Head office: Carp Airport, 3257 Carp Road, Carp, Ontario, K0A ILO, Canada. Tel: +1 (613) 839 3340; fax: +1 (613) 839 5690. Five Star Airlines, now Fivestar Aircraft leases its mainly Lockheed L-1011 TriStar fleet. Flagship Airlines (8N), formerly Nashville Eagle, is a Nashville-based American Eagle operator, serving 83 cities from hubs at Miami, Nashville, New York J F Kennedy and Raleigh/Durham. Routes: Ashville, Atlanta, Augusta, Bloomington, Charlotte, Champaign, Charleston, Chattanooga, Cin cinnati, Columbia, Columbus GA, Columbus OH, Columbus/Starkville/West Point, Dayton, Evansville, Fayetteville, Fort Smith, Fort Wayne, Fort Walton Beach, Greenville/Spartanburg, Gulfport/Biloxi, Indianopolis, Knoxville, Lexington, Louisville, Montgomery, Nashville, Owensboro, Paduca, Panama City, Peoria, Pensacola, South Bend, Springfield IL, Springfield MI, Tallahassee, Toledo, Tri City, Tupelo, Tuscaloosa. Fleet: 14 ATR 42, 47 BAe Jetstream, 52 Saab 340B, 20 Shorts 360. On order: one ATR 42, four BAe Jetstream Super 31. Executives: president, John Hayes; VPs: field serv ices, Mark Marudas; operations, Ed Criner; mainte nance, Douglas Shockey; marketing, Elizabeth Gephart; personnel, T S Mishko; controller, Sandy Stacks; corporate communications, Edward Martelle (+1 (817) 967 1853). Employees: 3,583. Head office: PO Box 17228, Nashville, Tennessee 37217-0228, USA. Tel: +1 (615) 399 6318; fax: +1 (817) 967 9784. Flagship Express, formerly Rosenbaum Aviation, en tered Chapter 11 Bankruptcy on 13 December, 1991. Flanders Airlines became bankrupt in February 1992. Flash Airlines (FSH), a Nigerian cargo charter carrier flies between Africa and Europe. Fleet: two DC-8-50F. Executive: president, Chief P E Osakwe. Head office: 55 2nd East Circular Road, Benin City, Nigeria. Tel: +234 (52) 244028; telex: 27625 FLAAIR NG. Flexair (W), a Dutch scheduled regional airline based 92 FLIGHT INTERNATIONAL 24 - 30 March, 1993
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