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1953
1953 - 0313.PDF
FLIGHT, 6 March 1953 3" THE WORLD'S AIRLINES . . . Capital Airlines, Inc., Washington, D.C., U.S.A. Routes: Extensive net work in Eastern, Southern and Mid- Western States with terminals at New Orleans, Atlanta, Memphis, Minne apolis, Chicago, Soult Ste. Marie, Buffalo, New York, Washington and Norfolk; mileage 5,160. Fleet: 7 Lockheed Constellations, 25 Douglas DC-4S and 25 Douglas DC-3S. Traffic ton-miles 69,338,107. Caribair (Caribbean Atlantic Air lines, Inc.), San Juan, Puerto Rico. Routes: Domestic and to Dominican Republic and Virgin Islands; mileage 390. Fleet: 3 Douglas DC-3S. Caribbean International Airways, Ltd., Nassau, Bahamas, B.W.I. Routes: Kingston to Grand Cayman and Tampa. Fleet: Catalinas. Caspar Air Charters and Agencies, Ltd., Entebbe, Uganda. (In associa tion with East African Airways.) Routes: Local. Fleet: D.H. Rapides. CAT (Civil Air Transport), Taipeh, Taiwan, Formosa. Routes: Domestic and to Manila, Thailand, Hong Kong, Okinawa, Tokyo, and Korea. Fleet: Douglas DC-4S, Douglas DC-3S and Curtiss C-46S (Skylarks). Cathay Pacific Airways, Ltd., Hong Kong. Routes: Hong Kong to Borneo, Indo-China, Malaya, Philip pine Islands and Thailand. Fleet: 2 Douglas DC-3S and X DC-1. CAUSA (Compania Aeronautica Uruguaya, S.A.), Montevideo, Uru guay. Route: Montevideo to Buenos Aires; mileage 142. Fleet: Short Sandringhams. Central Aerea, Ltda., Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. See Consorcio Nacional de Transportes Aereos. Central African Airways Corpora tion,* Salisbury, Southern Rhodesia. Routes: In Central Africa and to South Africa; mileage 7,000. Fleet: 9 Vickers-Armstrongs Vikings and 5 de Havilland Beavers. Central Airlines, Inc., Fort Worth, Texas, U.S.A. Feederline routes in Central Southern States. Fleet: 6 Douglas DC-3S. Central Air Transport Corpora tion (CATC), China. No informa tion available. Central Northern Airways, Ltd., Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada. Routes: Local. Fleet: Lockheed, Waco, Cessna, Avro Anson, Noorduyn Norseman, de Havilland Beaver, Stinson and Bellanca aircraft. Chicago and Southern Air Lines, Inc.,* Memphis, Tennessee, U.S.A. Rour;s: Serving 22 U.S. cities and 11 States. Also to Cuba, Jamaica, Venezuela, Haiti, Dominican Re public and Puerto Rico; mileage 5,854. Fleet: 6 Lockheed Con stellations, 12 Douglas DC-3S and 10 Convair 340s in course of delivery. China National Aviation Corpora tion (CNAC), China. No information available. Cie. Air Transport, Paris, France. Routes: Paris to Algiers, Oran and Tunis. Marseilles to Algiers and Oran. Lyon to Algiers. Fleet: 3 Douglas DC-4S. CMA (Compaiiia Mexicana de Avia tion. S.A.), Mexico City, Mexico. (Amiliate of Pan American World ways, Inc.). Routes: Domestic and to California and Cuba; mileage 4,926. Fleet: 2 Douglas DC-6s, 6 Douglas DC-4S and 19 Douglas DC-3S. On order, 8 Convair 340s. Colonial Airlines, Inc., New York City, N.Y., U.S.A. Routes: In the Eastern States and to Bermuda and Canada; mileage 2,000. Fleet: 4 Douglas DC-4S and 8 DC-3S. Commercial Air Services (Pty.), Ltd., Johannesburg, Transvaal, South Africa. Routes: Local. Fleet: de Havilland Dove and Cessna 170. Compania Cubana de Aviaci6n, S.A.,* Havana, Cuba. Routes: Dom estic and to Miami, Bermuda, Portugal and Spain; mileage 6,914. Fleet: 2 Douglas DC-4S and 6 Doug las DC-3S. Traffic ton-miles 7,543,456. Compania de Aviacion Faucett, S.A., Lima, Peru. Routes: Domestic. Fleet: 6 Douglas DC-3S, 4 Douglas DC-4S and Faucett-Stinson mono planes. Compania Dominicana de Avia cion, S.A., Cuidad Trujillo, Domini can Republic. Routes: Domestic and to Puerto Rico and Florida; mileage 350. Fleet: 2 Douglas DC-3S and 4 Curtiss C-46S. Connellan Airways, Ltd., Alice Springs, Northern Territory, Aus tralia. Routes: Local. Fleet: D.H. Rapides and Dragonfly. Consorcio Nacional de Trans portes Aereos, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. Consists of Central Aerea, Ltda., Organisacao Mineira de Trans portes Aereos (OMTA), Transportes Aereos Nacional, Ltda., and Viacao Aerea Brasil, S.A. Routes: Domestic. Fleet: Douglas DC-3S. Continental Air Lines, Inc., Den ver, Colorado, U.S.A. Routes: In Denver, New Mexico, Texas, Okla homa and Kansas; mileage 2,500. Fleet: 5 Convair 240s, 10 Douglas DC-3S and 2 Douglas DC-6s. On order, 7 Convair 340s. COPA (Compania Panamena de Aviacion, S.A.), Panama City, Pana ma. (Associate of Pan American World Airways.) Routes: Local; mileage 354. Fleet: 2 Douglas DC-3S. Cordova Airlines, Inc., Anchorage, Alaska. Routes: Local. Fleet: Doug las DC-3, Grumman Goose, Cessna 170s, Stinsons and Pipers. Traffic ton-miles 84,629. Corps d'Aviation de l'Armee Haiti, Port au Prince, Haiti. Routes: Local; mileage 594. Fleet: 3 Douglas DC-3S and Beech 18s. Cosara (Societe des Transports Aeriens de l'Extreme Orient), Saigon, French Indo-China. Routes: Local; mileage 2,000. Fleet: Douglas DC-3S and possibly S.O. 30P Bretagne. CSA (Ceskoslovenske Aerolinie, n.p.),* Prague, Czechoslovakia. Routes: Domestic and to Austria, Bulgaria, Denmark, Finland, Ger many, Hungary, Poland and Rou- mania. Fleet: IL 12s and Douglas DC-3S. Cyprus Airways, Ltd.,* Nicosia, Cyprus. (An associate of B.E.A. and B.O.A.C.) Routes: To Egypt, Greece, Israel, Italy, the Lebanon, Persian Gulf, Sudan and Turkey; mileage 7,000. Fleet: 6 Douglas DC-3S. Deccan Airways, Ltd., Hyderabad State (Deccan), India. Routes: Domestic; mileage 3,596. Fleet: 11 Douglas DC-3S. Delta Air Lines, Inc., Atlanta, Georgia, U.S.A. Routes: To Chicago, Miami, New Orleans, Fort Worth, etc.; mileage 3,000. Fleet: 7 Douglas DC-6s, 5 Douglas DC-4S and 20 Douglas DC-3S. On order, 4 Douglas DC-7S and 10 Convair 340s in course of delivery. This company is to merge with Chicago and Southern Air Lines. DETA* (Divisao de Exploracao des Transportes Aereos), Lourenco Marques, Mozambique. Routes: Domestic and to South Africa and Southern Rhodesia; mileage 2,000. Fleet: 3 Douglas DC-3S, 6 de Havil land Doves, 5 de Havilland Dragon Rapides, 3 Lockheed Lodestars, and 1 Junkers-Ju 52/3m. DHY (Devlet Hava Yollari), Ankara, Turkey. (Turkish State Air Lines.) Routes: Domestic and to Cyprus, Egypt and the Lebanon; mileage 2,500. Fleet: About 30 DC-3S. D.T.A.* (Divisao dos Transportes Aereos), Luanda, Angola, Portuguese West Africa. Routes; Local and to Leopoldville and Pointe Noire; mile age 3,474. Fleet: 5 Douglas DC-3S, 5 Beech 18s and 7 D.H. Rapides. Traffic ton-miles 505,500,000. East African Airways Corpora tion,* Nairobi, Kenya Colony. Routes: In East Africa and to South Africa; mileage 19,729- Fleet: 9 Douglas DC-3S, 3 Macchi MB 320s, 2 Lockheed Lodestars and 2 de Havilland Dragon Rapides. Traffic ton-miles 1,869,222. Eastern Air Lines, Inc.,t New York City, N.Y., U.S.A. Routes: Extensive network in the Eastern and Southern States and to Puerto Rico and Mexico; mileage 7,000. Fleet: 14 Lockheed Super Constellations, 20 Lockheed Constellations, 57 Martin 4-0-4S, 11 Douglas DC-4S. On order, L-1049C Super Constella tions. East-West Airlines, Ltd., Tarn- worth, N.S.W., Australia. Routes: Local; mileage 1,042. Fleet: 3 Lock heed Hudsons. El Al* (Israel Airlines, Ltd.), Tel Aviv, Israel. Routes: Israel to London and other European cities, to the U.S.A., East and South Africa. Fleet: 3 Lockheed Constellations, 1 Douglas DC-4 and 2 Curtiss C-46S. Ellis Air Lines,* Ketchikan, Alaska. Routes: Domestic and to Prince Rupert, B.C.; mileage 459- Fleet: 6 Grumman Goose. Traffic ton- miles 276,665. Ethiopian Air Lines, Inc., Addis Ababa, Ethiopia. Routes: Domestic and to Aden, Djibouti, Egypt, Kenya and Saudi Arabia; mileage 12,000. Fleet: 2 Convair 240s and 7 DC-3S. Federation Air Service, Kuala Lumpur, Malaya. Routes: Local. Fleet: de Havilland Beavers. Fiji Airways, Suva, Fiji. Routes: Local Fleet: 3 D.H. Rapides. Finnair* (Finnish Air Lines), Helsinki, Finland. (The Finnish national airline.) Routes: Domestic and to Denmark, Germany and Sweden; mileage 3,000. Fleet: 8 Douglas DC-3S. On order, 3 Convair 340s. Flugfelag Islands, H.F. (Iceland Airways),* Reykjavik, Iceland. Routes: Domestic and to the United Kingdom and Denmark. Fleet: 1 Douglas DC-4, 3 DC-3S, I Ccnvair Catalina, 2 Cansos, 1 Grumman Gray Goose, 1 D.H. Dragon Rapide and 1 Noor duyn Norseman. Frontier Airlines, Inc., Denver, Colorado, U.S.A. Feederline routes in Colorado, Montana, Arizona, New Mexico, Utah and Wyoming. Fleet: 12 Douglas DC-3S. Garuda Indonesian Airways N.V.,* Djakarta, United States of Indonesia. (The Indonesian national airline.) Routes: In Indonesia and to Manila and Singapore; mileage 15,399. Fleet: 8 Convair 240s, 21 Douglas DCr3s and 6 Convair Cansos. On order, 14 de Havilland Herons and 8 Convair 340s. Traffic ton-miles 13.100,000. Gibbes Sepik Airways, Ltd., Wewak, New Guinea and Port Moresby, Papua. Routes: Services in Papua, New Guinea and Dutch New Guinea. Fleet: 7 Noorduyn Norse man and 2 Austers. Gibraltar Airways, Ltd., Gibraltar (subsidiary of B.E.A.). Route: Gib raltar to Tangier. Fleet: Rapides. Guinea Airways, Ltd., Adelaide, South Australia. Routes: Within South Australia and to N.S.W. and Victoria; mileage 1,656. Fleet: 3 Douglas DC-3S. Gulf Aviation Co., Ltd., Bahrain, Persian Gulf. (Associate of B.O.A.C.). Routes: Bahrain to Dhahran. Doha and Sharjah. Fleet: 4 de Havilland Doves. Traffic ton-miles 59,400. Hamwtta (Sino-Soviet Aviation Cor poration), Alma Ata, U.S.S.R. Routes: Alma Ata to Hami; mileage 500. Fleet: Li 2s. Hawaiian Airlines, Ltd., Honolulu, Hawaii. Routes: Inter-Island. Fleet: 13 Douglas DC-3S and 2 Convair 340s. On order, 4 Convair 340s. Traffic ton-miles 5,188,580. Helicopter Air Service, Inc., Chicago, Illinois, U.S.A. Short-haul mail operator. Routes: Mail services in Chicago area. Fleet: 6 Bell 47s. Himalayan Aviation, Ltd., Cal cutta, India. Routes: Domestic and to Pakistan, Afghanistan and Iran; mileage 2,000. Fleet: 3 Douglas DC-3s. Hong Kong Airways, Ltd., Hong Kong. (Owned by Jardine, Matheson and Co., Ltd.). Route: Hong Kong to Formosa. Fleet: 1 Douglas DC-4. Traffic ton-miles 460,000. Iberia (Lineas Aereas Espanolas),* Madrid, Spain (Spanish national air line). Routes: Domestic and to France, United Kingdom, Italy, Switzerland, West Africa, South America and Cuba; mileage 20,000. Fleet: 6 Douglas DC-4S, 13 DC-js, 4 Bristol 170s, Junkers Ju 52/3ms, Air speed Consuls and D.H. Dragon Rapides; 3 Lockheed Super Con stellations on order. Indian National Airways, Ltd., New Delhi, India. Routes: Domestic and to Burma, Nepal and Pakistan; mileage 3,000. Fleet: 6 Vickers- Armstrongs Vikings and 7 DC-3S. Iranian Airways Company, Te heran, Iran. Routes: Domestic and to Persian Gulf, Pakistan and India. Fleet: 4 Douglas DC-3S, 3 de Havil land Doves and 2 Fairchild Argus. Iraqi Airways,* Baghdad, Iraq. (Associated with B.O.A.C.). Routes: Within the Middle East to Egypt, the Lebanon, Syria, Kuwait and Bahrain. Fleet: 3 Vickers-Armstrongs Vikings and 1 de Havilland Dove. Traffic ton-miles 1,045,000. Island Air Service, Port Clinton, Ohio, U.S.A. Routes: Local to islands in Lake Erie. Fleet: 4 Ford Tri-motors. Japan Air Lines Co., Ltd., Tokyo, Japan. Routes: Domestic. Fleet: 6 Douglas DC-4S. On order, 2 de Havilland Comet 2s, DC-6Bs and 3 de Havilland Herons. Traffic ton- miles 3,540,000. Jugoslovenski Aero Transport (JAT),* Belgrade, Yugoslavia (the Yugoslav national airline). Routes: Domestic and to Austria, France, Germany, Greece and Switzerland; mileage 3,700. Fleet: Douglas DC-3S and 2 Short Sealands. On order: Convair 240s. Kalinga Air Lines, Calcutta, India. Routes: Domestic; mileage 197. Fleet: 7 Douglas DC-3S, 1 Convair Catalina and 1 Stinson L-5. Karhumaki Airways (Veljekset Kar- humaki), Kuorevesi, Finland. Routes: Domestic and to Sweden. Fleet: Lockheed Lodestars. K.L.M. (Koninklijke Luchtvaart Maatschappij N.V.—Royal'Dutch Air lines), The Hague, Netherlands. Routes: European, West Indies and New Guinea networks and Amster dam to New York, Montreal, Curacao, Mexico, Dakar, Rio de Janeiro, Buenos Aires, Santiago de Chile, Johannesburg, Djakarta, Tokyo and Sydney; mileage 113,500. Fleet: 7 Douglas DC-6Bs, 6 Douglas DC-6s, 15 Lockheed Constellations, 12 Con vair 240s, 10 Douglas DC-4S, 20 Douglas DC-3s, 1 de Havilland Dragon Rapide and 1 Auster 5. On order, 13 Lockheed Super Constella tions, 6 Convair 340s and 2 Doug las DC-6As. Traffic ton-miles 106,800,600. Korean National Airlines, Pusan, Korea. Routes: Domestic. Fleet: Douglas DC-3S. LACSA (Lineas Aereas Costarri- censes S.A..), San Jose, Costa Rica. (Subsidiary of Pan American World Airways.) Routes: Domestic and to Panama, Nicaragua, Cuba and the U.S.A. Fleet: 4 Douglas DC-3S and 4 Curtiss C-46S. Traffic ton-miles 3,080,000. LADE (Lineas Aereas del Estado), Buenos Aires, Argentina. Routes: Domestic; mileage 2,000. Fleet: Vickers-Armstrongs Vikings and Douglas DC-3S. LAI (Linee Aeree Italiane, S.p.A.), Rome, Italy. Routes: Domestic and to France, Trieste, Spain, Greece, Turkey, Israel, Egypt, Tunis and New York. Fleet: 2 DC-6s and DC-3S. Lake Central Airlines, Indianapolis, Indiana, U.S.A. Routes: Local. Fleet: Douglas DC-3S. LAMS A (Lineas Aereas Mexicanas, S.A.), Mexico City, Mexico (in association with United Air Lines). Routes: Domestic; mileage 1,500. Fleet: 5 Douglas DC-3S. LAN (Linea Aerea Nacional. Chile),* Santiago, Chile. Routes: Domestic and to the Argentine and Uruguay. Fleet: Martin 2-0-2S, Douglas DC-3S, Lockheed Lodestars, Electras and D.H. Dragon Rapides.
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