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FLIGHT International, 16 May 198/ 1417 World airline directory Britannia Airways' fleet consists solely of more than two dozen Hoeing 737s ing London with Lagos and Kano, and a North Atlantic service linking Hous ton and Atlanta with Manchester, Prest-wick and London. Passenger charter flights are undertaken to destinations in Europe and North Africa together with worldwide cargo charters. BCal has a minority holding in Sierra Leone Airways and Gambia Airways and assists in the management of both. The airline is also associated with British Airways Helicopters and the British Airports Authority in the operation of the Gatwick-Heathrow Airlink sched uled helicopter service. BCal has been awarded route licences for Dallas/Fort Worth, St Louis and Denver in the USA. BCal has been awarded the Hong Kong route (services started last August) and has applied to extend this service to Manila, The airline has also been awarded rights from Gatwick to Cologne/Bonn, Hamburg, Hanover. Hel sinki, Stuttgart and Vienna for low-fare (Mini-Prix) off-peak services. Head Office: London Gatwick Air port, Horley, Surrey, Great Britain. A'87161. Executives: chairman, Adam Thom son; managing director, A. T. Pugh; directors: group finance, T. E. Boud; engineering, W. A. Richardson; external affairs, J. M. Ritchie; financial, C. M. Smith; flight operations, Capt J. N. Fugl; planning, J. Prothero Thomas; per sonnel, Dr D. J. Freemantle; project, J. R. Sidebotham; joint company secre taries, R. A. C. Lewis; L. N. Bebchick. Employees. 6,600. Fleet: eight DC-10-30, five Boeing 707- 320C nine One-Eleven 500, seven One-Eleven 200, three Sikorsky S-61N, one S-76. On order: three Airbus A310. British Caledonian Helicopters was formed in April 1979 when BCal took over Ferranti Helicopters. Ad hoc charter and oil industry support ser vices are operated from Aberdeen Air port and Falmouth. Head Office: Caledonian House, Craw ley, Sussex RH10 2XA. ^87161 BCAL G. Executives: chairman, Adam Thom son; directors, Trevor Boud, D. H. Walters, W. A. Richardson, B. H. Firmin and F. Hope; commercial manager, A. L. H. Pannell. Fleet: three Sikorsky S-61N, one S-76A, two Bolkow BO105D, two Jet- Ranger. On order: four Sikorsky S-76. British Midland Airways (BMA) was formed in 1938. Scheduled passenger and cargo services were started in 1953 and now link the East Midlands Airport with Amsterdam, Belfast, Dublin, Glas gow, Jersey, Guernsey, London Heath row, and Paris; from London Heathrow to Birmingham, Teesside, Liverpool, Leeds/Bradford and the Isle of Man; London Gatwick to Belfast; Birmingham and the Channel Islands from nine UK points. Services are also operated from Liverpool to Belfast and the Isle of Man. BMA also operates a specialist overseas leasing service with Boeing 707s, providing operational support to national flag carriers in the Middle East, Africa and Europe. Originally a private company, BMA's principal share holding was acquired in 1969 by the Minster Assets investment and banking group, from whom the airline was pur chased in 1978 by a consortium of British Midland Directors, headed by Michael Bishop. Head Office: East Midlands Airport, Castle Donington, Derby, Great Britain. ^37172. Executives: chairman/managing direc tor, M. D. Bishop; directors: G.N.Elliott; Dr'R. F. Beauchamp; general manager, J. T. Wolfe; company secretary, S. F. British Air Ferries supplemented its Herald fleet with former British Airways' Viscounts during 1980 Balmforth; managers: commercial, G. J. W. Norman; reservations, T. B. Thomas; cargo, T. D. Greetham; sales planning, P. G. Barnes; route facilities, T. R. P. Liddiard; scheduled services administra tion, T. W. Walden; chief executive operations, Capt T. D. Court; fleet managers: Boeing 707, Capt R. Hardv; DC-9, Capt R. Wise; Viscount, Capt J. Snee; chief accountant, G. F. Hill; chief executive engineering, A. I. Topps; en gineering manager, A. Beardmore. Employees: 1,150. Fleet: three DC-9-15, 10 Viscount 800. Simulator: one Viscount 800. Brymon Airways was formed in 1972 as the airline division of Brymon Aviation. Principal shareholder is W. R. Bryce. Scheduled operations began in June 1972 and now cover passenger services link ing Plymouth with Jersey, Guernsey, the Scilly Isles, Morlaix, Brest, Cherbourg, Cork, Southampton, London Gatwick and Birmingham; Exeter with the Scilly Isles; Southampton with Cherbourg; and Newquay (St Mawgan) with the Scilly Isles, Southampton, London Heath row, Manchester and Aberdeen. Since October 1979 Brymon has operated the London Gatwick-Birmingham route in collaboration with British Caledonian. An associate company, Brymon Airports, controls and administers Plymouth City Airport and the Newquay Airport Civil Terminal. Head Office: City Airport, Plymouth, Devon, Great Britain. ••'45465. Executives: managing director, W. R. Bryce; financial director, P. V. Howell; commercial manager, K. A. Josolyne; operations manager/chief pilot, Capt Harry Gee; chief engineer, A. Forman; finance/revenue control manager, W. R. H. Hawke; public relations, Malcolm Ginsberg. Employees: 100. Fleet: one Herald, five Twin Otter. On order: two Dash 7. Burma Airways Corporation, known until December 1972 as Union of Burma Airways (UBA), was formed in'1948 as the wholly Government-owned national airline. A 20-point domestic network of scheduled passenger and cargo services link Rangoon with Akyab, Bassein, Bhamo, Gwa, Heho, Kalemyo, Keng- tung, Kyaukpu, Lashio, Loikaw, Magwe, Mandalay, Moulmein, Myitkyina, Pa-an, Papun, Sandoway, Tavoy and Ye, plus international services to Bangkok, Cal cutta, Dacca, Kathmandu and Singa pore Head Office: 104 Strand Road, Ran goon, Burma. >"-2002. Executives: managing director / gen eral manager, U Thaung Nyunt; man agers: commercial, U Thein Han; operations, U Tin Tun; engineering, U Aung Kyaw Zaw; administration, U Hla Sein; chief accountant, U Maung Maung Ohn; stores controller, U Hla Maung. Fleet: one Fokker F.284000, two F.28-1000, six F.27-600, one F.27-200, seven Twin Otter, three SA.330J Puma. Bursa Hava Yollari (BHY-Bursa Air lines) was formed in April 1977 to operate scheduled passenger services between Bursa, a city on the coast of the Marmara Sea in north-west Turkey, and Istanbul. Services began in August 1977 and in early 1979 BHY began flying U international routes between Istanbul and London, Frankfurt, Dusseldorf, Stuttgart and Cyprus using DC-8 air craft. Passenger and cargo charters are operated by Aviocars on domestic ser vices.
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