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Directory 18 WORLD AIRLINE DIRECTORY managing director, Virachai Vannukul; executive vice-president, Duncan Au; commercial v-p, Andreas Hansen. Employees: 400. Fleet: One Boeing 747, two 707-131. Air Spain was formed in January 1965 and operates passenger and cargo charters, together with inclusive-tour services, from the Aeropuerto Palma de Mallorca. Head Office: Claudio Coello 16, Madrid, Spain. Executives: President, J. Paramo; managing director, Miguel Solans; man agers: commercial, Jacques Crausaz; marketing, Pierre Palao; operations, M. Ocana; finance, Angel Lopez Castillo. Fleet: Six DC-8-21. Air St Pierre began operations in 1961 and now flies scheduled passenger ser vices every day except Sunday from St Pierre on Miquelon Island a French possession off the Newfoundland coast. Head Office: St Pierre, Miquelon Island, Canada. Fleet: One DC-3. Air Tchad was formed in June 1966. Stockholders are the Tchad Government (64%) and UTA (367o) which provides technical and operational assistance. Operations began on August 4, 1966 and currently link Ndjamena (formerly Fort Lamy) with Mongo, Abecher, Ati, Fort Arctiambault, Am Timan, Faya Largeau, Bongor, Pala, Geneina, Moundou, Bol, Oum Hadjer, Abou Deia and Bokoro. Head Office: PO Box 168, 27 Avenue Charles de Gaulle, Ndjamena, Tchad. Executives: President, Adoum Agana-ye; director-general, M. Duvernois. Fleet: One DC-4, two DC-3, one Baron, one Cherokee Six. Air Togo was formed in 1963 with assis tance from Pan African Air Charter of Nigeria. Scheduled passenger services link the capital, Lome, with Lagos. Head Office: BPI090, 1 Avenue de la Liberation, Lome, Togo. Executives: General manager, Amadou I. Ade; director, Don Sittman. Fleet: Two Cessna 402. Air Tourisme Alpin (ATA) was formed in 1969 to operate cargo charter flights from Basle. In 1972 newspaper contract flights were operated to Munich, Zurich, Geneva and Paris, intially using a Hamilton Turboliner (Beech 18) and later a Viscount 800 leased from SATA. In mid-1972 ATA ceased operations and the aircraft returned to the owners. In 1973 the British independent airline Transmeridian Air Cargo took a finan cial interest in ATA in exchange for a Canadair CL-44 freighter, and opera tions resumed. Head Office: Basle Airport, Switzer land. Fleet: One Canadair CL-44. Air Trans Africa was formed in August 1965 to operate passenger and cargo charter services in southern and central Africa from Salisbury Airport. Afro- Continental Airways is a subsidiary company. Head Office: PO Box 655, Salisbury, Rhodesia. Executives: Managing director, J. M. Malloch; directors: R. J. Woodnutt, Brig A. Dunlop; commercial manager, I. D. L. Malcolm. Fleet: Douglas DC-7C/F. Air Vietnam was founded in 1951 to take over the domestic and regional ser vices previously operated by Air France. The Vietnamese Government holds 92-75% of the stock and Air France 6%, reduced from 25% in October 1968. Air Vietnam flies domestic services plus routes to Laos, Khmer (Cambodia), Formosa, Japan, Philippine Islands, Singapore, Malaysia, Hong Kong and Thailand. Head Office: 27B Phan-dinh-Phung, Saigon, South Vietnam. Executives: Chairman, Tran-Van-Vien; president, Nguyen-Tan-Trung; vice-president, Phan-Luong-Quang; commer cial director, Nguyen-Xich-Hao; financial director, Tran-Ngoc-Trinh; operations director, Vu-trung-Nam; technical direc tor, Nguyen-tranli-Diep. Employees: 3,200. Fleet: One Boeing 707, two 727-100, two DC-6, three DC-4, seven DC-3, two Cessna 185, two Cessna 206. Air Volta was formed in 1967 with the assistance of UTA and Air Afrique. Scheduled domestic services are operated between Ougadougou and Bobo Dioul. Head Office: BP116, Avenue Binger, Ougadougou, Volta Republic. Executive: Managing director, R. Min- guez. Fleet: One Piper Navajo, one Chero kee Six. Airways (India) was formed in Septem ber 1945 as a public limited company and operated scheduled services until 1953. It now undertakes charter opera tions, mainly to Assam and North Bengal. Head Office: 31 Chittaranjan Avenue, Calcutta 12, India. Executives: Director, K. K. Roy; chief FLIGHT International, 21 March 1974 pilot, Capt P. B. Bose. Employees: 126. Fleet: Three DC-3. Air Yugoslavia is a wholly-owned sub sidiary of Yugoslav Air Transport, formed in the late 1960s to operate charter flights mainly to areas where numbers of Yugoslav emigrants are to be found, such as Australia and the USA. Head Office: Mose Pi jade 1/IH, Bel grade 11000, Yugoslvia. Executives: see Yugoslav Air Trans port. Fleet: Four Boeing 707, three Cara- velle. Aire Zaire, known until October 1971 as Air Congo, was formed in June 1961 as the national airline of the Congo, since renamed Zaire. Major shareholders in the airline are the Government of Zaire with 70%, the Institut National de Securite Social with 8% and the Caisse d'Epargne 8%; the remainder is in the hands of other Zaire nationals. Techni cal assistance is provided under contract by Pan American. An extensive domestic network is operated from Kinshasa and Lubumbashi, together with international services to Abidjan, Athens, Bangui, Brussels, Bujumbura, Conakry, Dakar, Dar-es-Salaam, Douala, Frankfurt, En tebbe, Geneva, Libreville, Lome, Madrid, Nairobi, Ndjamena, Paris and Rome. Head Office: 4 Avenue du Port, Kinshasa, Republic of Zaire. Executives: Director General, William F. Wallace; commercial director, Russell Robinson. Employees: 3,980. Fleet: One Boeing 747-100, two DC-10-30, two DC-8-63F, two DC-8-33, two Cara- velle 11B, three Boeing 737-200, eight Fokker F.27, six DC-4. Alaska Airlines adopted its present title in 1944, having been founded in 1937 as Star Air Lines. The airline is an amalgam of several smaller carriers, the most recent being the take-over in 1968 of Alaska Coastal and Cordova Air lines. Alaska now operates a network of scheduled passenger and cargo ser vices linking the North Slope area in the north with Seattle in the south, with routes radiating from Anchorage, Fairbanks, Juneau, Sitka, Nome, Ketchi kan and Kotzebue. Since 1970 the air line has operated inclusive-tour flights to the Soviet Union and in 1972 applied for permanent authority to operate to Moscow and Leningrad. Head Office: Seattle-Tacoma Airport, Seattle, Washington 98158, USA. Executives: Chairman/chief executive, Ronald F. Cosgrove; vice-chairman, C. R. Stewart; president, O. F. Benecke; executive vice-president, Leroy H. Peter sen; secretary, Henry Bierds; senior vice-president marketing, Robert Giers-dorf. Employees: 830. Fleet: Three Boeing 720, four 727- 100C, one Convair CV-240, two Twin Otter, six Grumman Goose. Alaska International Air (AIA), known as Interior Airways until September 1972, was formed in 1946 to operate charter flights with light aircraft. During the 1960s the airline built its own airstrip at Sagwon, 350 miles north of Fairbanks, which has become one of the busiest airports in the North Slope area of Alaska. Worldwide cargo flights are now operated alongside a scheduled service between Fairbanks, Sagwon and Prudhoe Bay. Head Office: PO Box 3029, Fairbanks, Alaska 99701, USA. Executives: Chairman, James S. Magoffin; president, Neil G. Bergt; vice- pre=idonts: finance, Robert D. Heath; administration, Roy L. Isackson; opera tions, Jerry L. Church; maintenance, R. W. Roberts. Employees: 500. Fleet: Three L-100-20 Hercules, three L-100-10. ™"1 Jh
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