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1985
1985 - 0928.PDF
WORLD AIRLINE DIRECTORY operated throughout Washington and to points in Oregon, Idaho and Montana. Head office: PO Box 19207, Spokane International Airport, Spokane, Washington 99219, USA. ^^ 15-2166. Executives: chairman, Mark Chestnutt; president and CEO, Seabrook Fox; v-p marketing, M. Nilson. Employees: 365. Fleet: two One-Eleven 400, three One-Eleven 200, two HS.748, eight Beech 1900, three Metro III, two Bandeirante. Cathay Pacific Airways was founded in 1946 and originally operated several DC-3s on freight and later passenger services on a route network which stretched from Shanghai to Sydney. Since 1948 the airline has been controlled and managed by the Swire Group. Following increases in and reorganisation of share capital between 1970 and 1975, and the purchase in 1980 of a 15 per cent shareholding from British Airways Associated Companies, Cathay Hold ings (which is a wholly owned subsidiary of the Swire Group's major public company, Swire Pacific) now holds 71 per cent of the issued capital, and the Hong Kong and Shanghai Banking Corporation 29 per cent of the capital. Cathay Pacific operates an extensive network of scheduled passenger and cargo services from Hong Kong to Abu Dhabi, Auckland, Bahrain, Bangkok, Bombay, Brisbane, Dhahran, Dubai, Frankfurt, Fukuoka, Jakarta, Kaohsiung, Kota Kina- balu, Kuala Lumpur, London (Gatwick), Manila, Melbourne, Osaka, Penang, Perth, Port Moresby, Seoul, Shanghai, Singapore, Sydney, Taipei, Tokyo, and Vancouver. Head Office: Swire House, 9 Connaught Road, C, Hong Kong. ^0^73206. Executives: chairman, H. M. P. Miles; managing director, P. D. A, Sutch; directors: commercial, R. G. Dewar; engineering/maintenance, S. John; flight operations, Capt B. J. Wightman; sales/marketing, P. Tsai; deputy director/general manager, H. B. Olsen. Employees: 6,400. Fleet: eight Boeing 747-200B, one 747-200F, seven TriStar 1, two Tristar 100. On order: one 747-300. Cayman Airways was formed in July 1968 to replace Cayman Brae Airways, a subsidiary of the Costa Rican airline LACSA. Original shareholders were LACSA with 49 per cent and the Cayman Island Government (51 per cent), but in December 1977 the airline became wholly Government owned. Scheduled passenger services link George Town (Grand Cayman) with Little Cayman and Cayman Brae Islands, Grand Turk, Kingston, Miami, and Houston. Charters to New York are also operated. Head Office: PO Box 1101, Grand Cayman, British West Indies. ' ^^4272. Executives: chairman J. M. Bodden; managing director, Florentino Gonzalez; assistant to the managing director, Mike Henderson; v-p marketing and sales, George Ure; legal adviser, Orren Merren; directors: finance, J. J. Devlin; flight operations, Churchill Boden. Employees: 200. Fleet: two Boeing 727-200, one Trislander. Ceskoslovenske Aerolinie (CSA), the national airline of Czechoslovakia, was founded in 1923. Privately owned Ceskoslovenska Letecka Spolecnost (CLS) was founded in 1927, and the present CSA was a result of a merger of the two airlines in 1945. Post-war operations began in 1946 and today an extensive network of routes link Prague with most European capitals, the Near, Middle and Far East, North and West Africa, and North and Central America. Domestic services operate to all major points including Bratislava, Karlovy Vary, Kosice, Ostrava, Piestany, and Tatry. Head Office: 160 08 Prague 6, Airport Ruzyne, Czechoslovakia. ^*" 121068. Executives: director-general, Ing Jindrich Kopriva; deputy director-generals: flight operations, Ing Arpad Barci; technical, Ing Karel Cvacka; commercial, Ing Stefan Havala; economics/finance, Ing Petr Zajicek; personnel, Ing Pavel V.erner; engineering/ maintenance, Ing Zdenek Krai; public relations, Ing Bohumil Urbanec. Employees: 5,445. Fleet: six Ilyushin 11-62, four I1-62M, three 11-18, 13 Tupolev Tu-134A, 16 Yakovlev Yak-40. Challenge International, formerly known as Chal lenge Air Transport, is a Miami-based cargo airline formed in 1978 to operate scheduled and charter air cargo services. Authority is held to operate scheduled flights from the USA to several points in Central and South America, and services currently link Houston and Miami with Lima, Iquitos, Belize, San Pedro Sula, and Tegucigalpa (Honduras), Head Office: PO Box 522933, Miami International Airport, Miami, Florida, 33152, USA. ^^^•525993. Executives: chairman, Michael M. Debakey; presi dent, B. F. Spohrer; director of sales, Hector Ponte; controller, Wilfredo Fleites. Employees: 28. Fleet: one Boeing 707-320C, two DC-6B/F. Channel Express Air Services), formerly trading as Express Air Services, was originally founded in January 1978. Based at Bournemouth-Hum, Channel Express operates a variety of cargo services which include regular flights to the Channel Islands and night mail services to Bristol and Liverpool. Ad hoc charters are undertaken in the UK, Europe and North Africa. Head Office: Bournemouth Hum Airport, Christ- church, Dorset BH23 6DL, Great Britain. ^^*417227expair g. Employees: 40. Fleet: two Herald, one Twin Otter, one Partenavia P68B. China Airlines (CAL) was formed in 1959, and since 1965 has operated as the national airline of Taiwan. Scheduled passenger and cargo services are China Airlines' fleet of four Boeing 747SPs, together with its 747-200Bs, undertake the bulk of the carrier's long-haul, international services ;'^M#:vM V%w : Ntnfter ^nctf&F001 UwfflEBBBBS&z 68 operated internationally from Taipei to Hong Kong, Bangkok, Manila, Fukuoka, Singapore, Kuala Lumpur, Jeddah, Dhahran, Jakarta, Tokyo, Okinawa,?1 Seoul, Honolulu, Los Angeles, New York, and Amsterdam. Domestic destinations include Makung,r Tainan, Kaohsiung, Chiayi and Hualien. CAL was the first airline to operate both the Airbus and Boeing 767 and is the first Asian operator of the latter type.* Head Office: 131 Nanking East Road, Section 3, Taipei, Taiwan. * ^^11346. Executives: chairman, Gen Wu Yueh; president,1 Gen Lin-teh Chang; senior vice-president, Gen C. T.4 Shan; vice-presidents: traffic/sales, Michael Y. Wong; operations, Maj Gen Shiang Soo; general* manager—the Americas, Stanley S. C. Huang; direc tors: operations, Yu-sheng Liu; personnel, Shu-lin1 Chou; sales/marketing, Eugene Chen; public relations, Larry L. C. Lin; planning, Anselmus T. C.r Chow; comptroller, T. Y. Changi; technical services,^ V. C. Lee; legal and insurance, S. C. Wang; traffic and services, Jimmy C. M. Lo. * Employees: 5,670. Fleet: two Boeing 747-200B, one 747-200B Combi,* one 747-200F, one 747-100, four 747SP, four Airbus A300B4, two 767-200, one 707-320C, three 737-200. Chosonminhang (CAAK) is the state airline of the Democratic People's Republic of Korea. It was* formed in 1954 to succeed SOKOA, the joint Soviet- North Korean airline established in 1950 to operate*' scheduled services between Pyongyang and Chita in the USSR. Scheduled passenger and cargo services now link Pyongyang with Kaesong, Wonsan, Haijoo, * Sineuijoo, Gangge, Haheung, Hyesan, and Chungjin, together with international route to Beijing, Irkutsk, Khabarovsk, and Moscow. Charter services are oper ated to points in Asia, Africa, and Europe. Head Office: Sunan Airport, Sunan District, J Pyongyang, Democratic People's Republic of Korea. Executives: president, Hwang Ryong Hwan; foreign 1 affairs director, Li-Sung Jin. Fleet: two Ilyushin H-62M, four Tupolev Tu-154B, four H-18, eight Antonov An-24, five H-14. Cimber Air A/S Denmark was formed in 1946 by I. L. Nielsen and began scheduled feeder operations from Sonderborg in 1963. In November 1971 these services were integrated into the network of Danair A/S, the consortium formed in April 1971 by SAS, Maersk Air and Cimber Air. Shareholding in Danair is 5 per cent. Cimber Air operates services linking Sonderborg with Copenhagen for Danair. Passenger charter flights are also operated. Head Office: Sonderborg Flyvepads, DK-6400 Sonderborg, Denmark. ^-^^52315. Executives: president, I. L. Nielsen; vice-president, H. I. Neilsen; technical manager, T. Holstein; oper ations manager, L. G. Petersen; sales manager, J. Bauerfeind. Employees: 120. Fleet: two Fokker F.28-3000, three Nord 262. On order: three ATR42. Columbia Helicopters was founded in 1957 as a commercial helicopter operator flying cargo and passengers. Today, Columbia is primarily a heavy-lift operator, but also operates a feet of light- and medium-sized rotary-wing craft. The company is active in helicopter logging, construction, and onshore/offshore oil industry support. Construction activities include transmission tower erection, barge offloading, mining support, roof-top equipment place ment, and pipeline support. Passenger and cargo charters are also undertaken throughout the world. Columbia acquired Alaska Helicopters of Anchorage in 1978. Main base is at Aurora State Airport, Oregon. Head Office: PO Box 3500, Portland, Oregon 97208, USA. ^^36-0307. Executives: president, Wes Lematta; executive vice-president, Roy Simmons; vice-presidents: marketing, Fred Snell; maintenance, Jack Pyle; FLIGHT International, 30 March 2985.
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