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576 FLIGHT International, 15 April (945 WORLD AIRLINE SURVEY . . . Quimper, Manchester, Glasgow, Leeds andBlackpool; from Blackpool to Dublin, Belfast, Leeds, and Newcastle; from Newcastle toAmsterdam and Dusseldorf; from Manchester to Coventry; from Bournemouth to Belfast,Dublin, Glasgow, Manchester, Coventry, Dinard and Exeter; and from Exeter to Paris,Dublin, Cork and Belfast. Head Office: States Airport, Jersey, ChannelIslands. Executives: Sir Myles Wyatt, chairman: M. L.Thomas, managing director; H. I. Allan, commercial manager; B. W. Gardiner,operations; T. C. Chandler, engineering. Employees: 640.Fleet: six Herald 201, 12 DC-3, two Heron. British West Indian Airways was a wholly-owned subsidiary of BOAC until November 1, 1961, when the Trinidad Government acquiredcontrol, BOAC retaining a 10% holding. The company was originally organized in 1940 asone of the TACA group of companies and began operations with one Lodestar. In 1947British South American Airways acquired control of BWIA and this passed to BOACwhen it took over BSAA. In 1949 BOAC took over British Caribbean Airways and mergedits operations with those of BWIA. An extensive network of Caribbean services isnow operated from Bermuda as far south as Georgetown (British Guiana). New York is alsoserved. Subsidiary companies are Jamaica Air Services and Leeward Islands Air Trans-port. Head Office: Kent House. Long CircularRoad, Port of Spain, Trinidad. Executives: Sir Patrick Hobson, chairman;Capt P. W. Kelshall. general manager; B. F. Pantin. general sales manager; P. Habib,traffic manager; M. de Comarmond, sales manager, Caribbean; G. R. Simmons, salesmanager, North America. Employees: 1,318.Fleet: two Boeing 727. five Viscount, three DC-3. On order; one Boeing 727. British Westpoint Airlines Ltd, known pre-viously as Westpoint Aviation Ltd, was formed in December 1960 as a charter operator.Scheduled services were begun during May 1962, and points served include London(Heathrow and Gatwick), Exeter, Sandown (Isle of Wight), Ostend, Bristol, Cardiff,Plymouth. Newquay and the Scilly Isles. In July 1964, Westpoint took over MayflowerAir Services and absorbed their services as from April 1, 1965. Head Office: Exeter Airport, Devon.Executives: F. Mann, chairman; N. H. Dixqn. managing director; Capt p. Mann, chiefpilot; J. Mann, engineering director. Employees: 60. Fleet: two DC-3, three Rapide. On order:two Britten-Norman BN-2. Brookhaven Commuter—from August toDecember 1964 a Pilatus Turbo-Porter named "Brookhaven Commuter," and provided bythe Fairchild-Hiller Corporation, operated a scheduled service three times a day betweenthe town of Brookhaven, Long Island, and La Guardia and J. F. Kennedy InternationalAirports. The aircraft operated from inter- sections and the windward end of the runway.The experiment may be mounted again during 1965. BUA—see British United Airways. Bush Pilots Airways operates charter servicesin Queensland and in 1962 took over Somerset Airways Ltd, another Queensland-basedcharter operator. Bush Pilots Airways has bases at Cairns. Normanton and Longreachand is an authorized Cessna dealer. Head Office: Cairns, Queensland. Australia.Executives: H. S. Williams, chairman; R. H. Norman, managing director.Fleet: one Aztec, one Cessna 310, two Cessna 205, two Cessna 185, two Cessna 182, twoCessna 172, one Comanche. Byerly Aviation Inc used to operate a regularservice from Jacksonville, Illinois, to Peoria where it connected with Ozark flights to andfrom Chicago. This service has been sus- pended but Byerly continues charter flying,operating a flying school and as a fixed base operator. Head Office: Greater Peoria Airport, Peoria,Illinois. Executives: R. M. Byerly, president; W. M.Staker, vice-president; R. F. Sitton, treasurer; L. B. Byerly, secretary.Employees: 20. Fleet: one Aztec, two Apache, six Comanche,two Cherokee, one Tri-Pacer, four others. Caledonian Airways (Prestwick) was incor-porated in April 1961 to undertake charter work, especially IT and transatlantic groupcharters. It was the first non-American independent carrier to obtain permission fromthe Civil Aeronautics Board to operate closed- group charter flights to the USA. In additionto transatlantic charters the company operates a large programme of inclusive tours fromGatwick, Manchester and Prestwick plus trooping and ad hoc charter work. Allaircraft in the fleet are maintained by Sabena. Late in 1964 three Britannias were lease-purchased from BOAC mainly for use on trans- atlantic IT operations during the 1965 season.Head Office: Imperial Buildings, Victoria Road, Horley, Surrey. Executives: Adam Thomson, chairman andmanaging director; F. Hope, deputy managing director; D. H. Walter, technical director;D. C. Standen, financial director; R. M. Gibson, Capt S. A. Calder, executive directors;R. Hermes, chief pilot; L. A. Donovan, chief accountant; R. Ollis, chief engineer; D. M.Parlane, operations manager; A. Bartlett, planning manager; R. Bryant, IT manager.Employees: 220. Fleet: four DC-7C (one leased from Sabena),two Britannia 312. On order: one Britannia 312. California Airlines Inc. was formed in Septem-ber 1964 as an intra-state carrier, to operate low-fare scheduled services from San Jose.California, to Los Angeles and Sacramento with four 89-seat Sud Caravelles. It had notstarted operations at the time of going to press. Head Office: San Jose Municipal Airport,California, USA. Executives: Richard T. Maus, president; DonDouglass, director; Gilbert Gass, secretary treasurer; Joseph V. Dillard, vice-presiderit,operations; Max King, consultant. Fleet: on order: four Sud Caravelle. California Time Airlines Inc was formed durinc1964 and started operations last October between Burbank, Palm Springs and San JoseHead Office: San Jose, California, USA. Executives: Henry Buckland, president/chair-man; T. D. Thompson, vice-president/chief pilot; Garry M. Buckland, secretary/treasurer.Fleet: two Martin 202, one DC-7B. Cambrian Airways Ltd began regular services in1946 and concentrates on serving South Wales and the West of England. With the grant oflicences to operate the ex-BEA Irish Sea services, Cambrian has become the secondlargest UK independent. A ten-year operating agreement was signed with BE A in 1956 andthe corporation acquired a 33% share in Cambrian in 1958. Routes operated are fromCardiff and Bristol to Manchester (as a feeder to BOAC and BE A services) and Liverpool;from Manchester through Cardiff and Bristol to the Channel Islands; from Cardiff andBristol to Bournemouth and Paris; from Cork to London direct and via Cardiff or Bristol.Head Office: Cardiff (Rhoose) Airport, Barry, Glamorganshire, Wales.Executives: J. Morgan, chairman; Wg Cdr L. B. Elwin, managing director; D. Davits,secretary; B. J. T. Callan, asst managing director; G. A. Perrott; chief pilot; R. H.Boutcher, chief engineer. Employees: 333.Fleet: six Viscount 701, five DC-3. Cameroons Air Transport Ltd was formed inMarch 1962. Shareholders are the West Cameroon Development Agency (50%) CropCulture (Aerial) Ltd (25 %) and the remainder by local interests. Operates scheduled and non-scheduled passenger and cargo services from Victoria to Tiko, Douala, Blai and Mamfe.Head Office: PO Box 39, Victoria, Federal Republic of Cameroon.Executives: W. P. Lebaga, chairman: N. Norman, J. N. Ngu, directors; J. Patient,general manager; A. S. Forbes, operations manager.Employees: 33. Fleet: one Dornier Do-28, one Piper Aztec,one Apache. Campling Bros and Vanderwal—see Caspair Ltdand Safari Air Services Ltd. Canadian Pacific Air Lines—CPAL—wasformed in 1942 by the Canadian Pacific Rail- way to acquire ten bush operators, the bestknown of which was Canadian Airways. Initially CPAL operated networks of servicesin west and north-west Canada, in the Winni- peg area and in Quebec as part of an overallrail way/ship/air CPR system. In 1949 two trans-Pacific services were started; these nowlink Vancouver with Honolulu, Fiji, Auckland and Sydney and with Tokyo and Hong Kongvia the Aleutians. In 1953 CPAL started services to Mexico City and Lima (sinceextended to Santiago and Buenos Aires). In 1955 a trans-Polar route was opened betweenVancouver and Amsterdam and in 1957 a transatlantic service was started to Madrid Part of Channel Airways' fleet of nine Viscount 700s on the apron at Southend Airport. Two of Channel's Viscounts are on lease to British Eagle
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