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Directory | 2 WORLD AIRLINE DIRECTORY aircraft, but more recently the airline has bought its own Meet including two Boeing 727-200s and four Caravelles. Head Office: 83 Rue Faubourg Saint Honore. Paris 75, France. Executives: President/general man ager, Pierre Sautet; vice-president, Jean Paul Petitjean; commercial manager, Franck Quetglas-Tous. Fleet: Two Boeing 727-200, six Cara-velle. Air Comores SARL, formed in 1903, operates scheduled passenger and cargo .services within the Comoro Islands in the Indian Ocean, linking Moroni with Anjouan, Dzaouclzi, Moheli. Dar-es-Salaam and Mombasa. Head Office: PO Box 81, Moroni, Archipel des Comores, Indian Ocean. Executive: Owner, Yves le Bret. Fleet: Two DC-4, two DC-3, Air Congo—see Air Zaire. ger carrier. Operations began on Sep tember 29, 1972 and now link Miami International Airport with Orlando, St Petersburg and Tallahassee. Head Office: Dadeland Towers, 9300 Dadeland Boulevard, Miami, Florida 33156, USA. Executives: Chairman, E. Timoner: president, T. Q. Griffin; genera] manager. Jim Woodman. Employees: 65. Fleet: Two Electra. Air France (Compagnie Nationale Air France) was formed in August 1933 by the merging of Air Union, Air Orient, SGTA and CIDNA and the purchase ol Aeropostale. Air France's operations range from an intricate pattern of medium-haul routes throughout Europe and to North Africa and the Middle East to a long-haul network extending to North and South America, the Carib bean Islands, Africa, Madagascar and the Indian Ocean, the People's Repub lic of China and the Far East. The latest introduction is a trans-Siberian route via Moscow to Tokyo. Air France also operates the Postale de Nuit internal night mail services which have achieved a very high standard of regularity and reliability using F.27-500s and Transalls. Air France has a financial interest in Air Charier International. Air Mada gascar, MEA, Tunis Air, Royal Air Maror, Air Inter, Ail' Mauritius, Air Cambodge. Air Djibouti was formed in 1962 as Air Somali. Operations began in April 1963 and the airline became a subsidiary of Air France in 1971. The current network of scheduled passenger and cargo ser vices links Djibouti with Obock, Tadjourah, Addis Ababa, Asmara, Aden, Taiz and Sana'a. Head Office: PO Box 505, Rue Marchand, Djibouti, French Territory of Afars and Issas. Executives: Chairman, F. Legrez; managing director, J. Descousis; man agers: commercial, P. Chabalian; ex ploitation, J. B. Huss; administrative/ financial, J. C. Carraud; technical, G. Puybonnieux. Employees: 181. Fleet: One DC-6B, two DC-3, one Chero kee Six, one Bell JetRanger. Air Express was formed in 1952 as a subsidiary of Air Express (Holdings) to operate cargo charter services within Australia and to points in New Guinea. The company also undertakes overhaul, repair and routine maintenance work. Head Office: Hangar 6, Archerfield Aerodrome, Brisbane, Queensland, Australia. Executive: Managing director, A. L. McLachlan. Fleet: Two Bristol Freighter 31, two Freighter 32, one Piper Comanche. Air Florida was formed in September 1971 as a scheduled intra-state passen- Air Guadeloupe, Air Vietnam, Air Djibouti and Cameroon Airlines. Head Office: 1 Square Max Hymans, Paris 15e, France. Executives. Chairman, Georges Gali-chon; managing director, Pierre D. Cot; deputy managers: aircraft equipment, Raymond Dupre; general affairs finance, Robert Montarnal; commercial, Claude Lalanne; technical, Jean-Louis Rattier; personnel, Jean Roubaud; general sec retary, Gilbert Perol. Employees: 28,146. Fleet: 14 Boeing 747, 18 707-328, seven 707-328B, eight 707-328C, 20 727-228, two 737, 37 Caravclle, one DC-4, four Transall C-IHO, 15 Fokker F.27-500. On order: Four Concorde, six Airbus A300, one 747F. Air Freight began operations in March 1967 as general sales agents to Skyways Coach Air at Ashford Airport. In 1970, Air Freight purchased the three DC-3s used on cargo services, although the aircraft continued to operate as part of the Skyways fleet. Following the liquida tion of that company in 1,971, passenger activities passed eventually to Dan-Air, while the cargo interests went to Air Freight. Since then a scheduled cargo route between Ashford and Antwerp has been added to the Beauvais operation. In February 1973 Air Freight took over the assets of the failed airline South West Aviation, but operations in the West Country have not been resumed to date. Equal shareholders in the air line are Eric Rylands, T. C. Beddowes, FLIGHT International, 21 March 1974 .1, P. Coulson and J. W. Faulkner. Head Office: Ashford International Airport, Hythe, Kent. Executives: Chairman, Eric Rylands; managing director, T. C. Beddowes; financial director, J. P. Coulson; sales director, J. W. Faulkner; directors: M. Tron-Sarrazin; L. Bloch; P. Delmotte. Employees: 92. Fleet: Four DC-3. Air Fret was formed in 1964 to operate passenger and cargo charter flights from its base at Nimes. Head Office: 4 Passage Cardinct, Paris 75017, France. Executive: President. R. Colin. Fleet: One Caravel le, one 1,-1049 Super Constellation. Air Gabon started operations in 1936 as the successor to Transports Aeriens du Gabon. Based at Port-Gentil, a network of scheduled services links the capital, Libreville, with 16 points in Gabon. Principal shareholder is the general manager. Head Office: BP 240, Port-Gentil, Gabon. Executives: General manager, Pierre Niraise; manager. Christian Guilloteau. Employees: 73. Fleet: One Trislander, three Tslander, one Beech 18, one Navajo, two Aztec, one Seneca, two Cherokee Six, one Twin Comanche, one Broussard, one Cessna 150, five Alouette II, three Alouette III. Air Gaspe operates scheduled passenger and cargo .services from C.aspe to Ste- Anne-Des-Mont, Port Menier, Mont Joli. Ha\ re-St-Pierre, Boiiaventurc, Sept-Iles. Quebec City- and the Magdalen Islands (Quebec), plus Charlo and Balhurst (New Brunswick ). Head Office: PO Box 247, Ste-Anne-Des-Monts. Quebec, Canada. Executives: President, Michel Pouiliot: regional manager, Ivan Pinsonnault. Employees: 15. Fleet: One HS.748, one Beech 99, one Aztec, one Apache, one Lockheed I0A. Air Guinee (Compagnie Nationale Air-Guinee) was formed in I960 with Czech and Soviet assistance. Scheduled passen ger and cargo services are operated from Conakry to Kankan. Boke, Fara-nah. Labe, Macenta, Siguiri, Kissidou- gou, and N'Zerekore together with inter national flights to Freetown (Sierra Leone), Monrovia (Liberia), Bamako (Mali) and Dakar (Senegal). Head Office: PO Box 12, Avenue de la Republique, Conakry. Guinea. Executives: Director - general, El-hadj Daoirda Diawara; deputy director- general, Barry Fode Lamine; commer cial director', Mara Diomba; technical director, Diakite Mamadi Ben; chief external relations, El-FIadj Toure Fode; chief accountant, Bah Maadjou; secre tary-general. Svlla Kararrroko. Employees: 323. Fleet: Two Ilyushin 11-18, four Antonov An-24. Air Haiti was formed in December 1969 and began operations in October 1970. Cargo and mail is carried between Port-au-Prince, San Juan, Miami and New York. Head Office: Avenue Jeanne Marie 35, Port-au-Prince, Haiti. Executives: General manager, Ernest ' Fleet: Two DC-8-20, one DC-6A, one C-46. Air Holdings (Sales) acouired an operat ing licence early in 1973. in the name of a predecessor company. Silver City Air ways, in order to operate a number of Vanguards repossessed from the British independent airline I n v i c t a Inter national. However, Tnvicta nuicklv re covered and bought the aircraft out right. Air Holdings finally suspended plans to reactivate Silver City in October 1973 and now concentrates on aircraft sales and engineering activities.
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