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1985
1985 - 0932.PDF
WORLD AIRLINE DIRECTORY Dan-Air Services (Dan-Air London) commenced operations in 1953. A subsidiary of Davies & Newman Holdings, London shipping brokers (established 1922) from whom its name is derived, Dan-Air oper ates inclusive-tour flights to resorts throughout Europe, the Mediterranean and beyond under contract to most leading British tour operators from more than a dozen points in the UK with similar services for German tour operators out of West Berlin. Dan-Air also operates contract services for oil companies, together with ad hoc passenger and cargo charters and night mail contracts. A network of scheduled domestic routes serves London (Heathrow & Gatwick), Inverness, Aberdeen, Newcastle, Belfast, Teesside, Leeds/Bradford, Manchester, Glasgow, Birmingham, Cardiff, Bristol, Bournemouth, Jersey and Guernsey. International scheduled passenger and cargo services are operated to Berne, Zurich, Toulouse, Perpignan, Montpellier, Bergen, Stav- anger, Dublin and Cork from Gatwick; to Amsterdam, Dublin and Cork from Bristol and Cardiff; to Amsterdam, Bergen, Stavanger, Cork and Dublin from Newcastle; to Jersey from Cork; to Amsterdam and Dublin from Teesside, and to Amsterdam from West Berlin. During 1984 Dan-Air commenced new services from Saarbrlicken to West Berlin, Gatwick to Belfast, Manchester to Zurich, and Newcastle to Amsterdam. The route licence to serve between Heathrow and Manchester, in competition with Brit ish Airways, has been awarded and Dan-Air plans to operate this route from this summer. Dan-Air Engineering has main bases at Lasham (Hants) and Manchester for in-house and third-party mainte nance. Davies and Newman Ltd (shipbrokers and agents), Dan-Smedvig Ltd (oil drilling services), Gatwick Handling, Manchester Handling, and Davies and Newman Travel are associate companies. Head Office: Bilbao House, 36-38 New Broad Street, London EC2M 1NH, Great Britain. .^^ 888973. Executives: chairman, F. E. F. Newman; managing director, E. G. Hutchinson; directors: group commer cial, M. R. F. Newman; commercial, D. L. Bernstein; charter, D. J. Siddaway; finance, W. Jones; oper ations, Capt A. H. Larkman; engineering, E. T. Evans; schedules, J. W. Varrier; personnel, E. M. Davies, D. P. Herbert; associate directors: flight oper ations, Capt R. E. Atkins; contracts, R. Walling; projects, D. Laws; planning, A. P. Somers. Employees: 3,000. Fleet: five Boeing 727-200, five 727-100, six 737-200, 12 One-Eleven 500, two One-Eleven 400, three One-Eleven 300, two One-Eleven 200, three BAe 146-100, 17 HS.748. On order: one Boeing 737-300. Delta Air Lines, founded in 1924 as the world's first commercial crop-dusting company, started passenger services in 1929. In May 1953 the airline merged with Chicago and Southern Air Lines (founded 1933), and in 1972 it absorbed Northeast Airlines (also founded in 1933). Delta now operates an extensive US network of scheduled passenger and cargo services from coast to coast, border to border and to Hawaii, serving 98 domestic cities in 35 States, the District of Columbia and Puerto Rico. International flights are also operated to Montreal, the Bahamas, Bermuda, San Juan, London Gatwick, Paris and Frankfurt from Atlanta. Head Office: Hartsfield Atlanta International Airport, Atlanta, Georgia 30320, USA. ^^^ 542316. Executives: chairman/chief executive officer, David C. Garrett Jr; president/chief operating officer, R. W. Allen; vice-chairman/chief financial officer, Robert Oppenlander; senior vice-presidents: general counsel & secretary, J. W. Callison; marketing, J. A. Cooper; finance, M. O. Galloway; personnel, R, H. Heil; tech nical operations, D. P. Hettermann; passenger service, H. L. Harris; flight, operations, F. F. Rox. Employees: 37,000. Fleet: 13 DC-8-71, 29 TriStar 1, one TriStar 200, six TriStar 500, 15 Boeing 767-200, six 757-200, 104 727-200, 33 737-200, 36 DC-9-30. On order: 9 767-300, 54 757-200. Delta Air Transport was formed in 1966 to operate air-taxi and charter services. Scheduled passenger services are operated linking Antwerp and Brussels with Amsterdam and Diisseldorf on behalf of KLM/NLM and Sabena. Charter flights to points in Europe and the Mediterranean area are also flown. Head Office: B-2100 Antwerp Airport, Deurne, Belgium. „^" 32602. Executives: general manager, Tony Vangrieken. Fleet: five Fairchild FH-227. Deutsche Lufthansa—see Lufthansa German Airlines. DHL Cargo, originally formed in 1977 as DHL Island Airways, is a division of the DHL Corporation. Scheduled cargo services are provided throughout the Hawaiian Islands from Honolulu. Head Office: 64 Lagoon Drive, Honolulu, Hawaii 96819, USA. ^^^ 39-7137 dhlac. Employees: 186. Fleet: one L-188CF Electra, four DC-6, one DC-3. DLT (Deutsche Luftverkehrsgesellschaft) was established on October 1, 1974, through the reor ganisation of OLT-Ostfriesische Lufttransport which itself was founded in 1958 as Ostfriesische Lufttaxi. DLT has progressively expanded from domestic to international services within Europe and operates in close collaboration with Lufthansa which holds a 26 per cent share in the company. Aktiengesellschaft fur Industrie und Verkehrswesen (AGIV) hold the remaining 74 per cent. Amsterdam, Basle, Brussels, Copenhagen, Paris, Venice, and Zurich are among the international destinations which are linked to DLT's comprehensive domestic network. Head Office: Flughafen Frankfurt, Gebaude 112, D-6000 Frankfurt/Main 75, Federal Republic of Germany. ^^^ 411643. Executives: joint managing directors: Dipl Ing Peter C. Orlovius; Dipl Kfm Dipl Ing (FH) G. H. Eberhard Schmidt. Employees: 207. Fleet: six HS.748, one Fokker F.27-100, one Metro III, one Metro II, one Twin Otter, one Jetstream 31. On order, six F.50, six Brasilia. Dominicana de Aviacion C por A was founded in 1944 by a group of businessmen headed by Guillermo Santoni Calero (with 60 per cent) and Pan American (40 per cent). The airline is now wholly owned by the state financial institution, Corporacion Dominica de Empresas Estatalas. Scheduled operations began in 1944 and now link Santo Domingo with Curacao, Caracas (in association with Viasa), Aruba, Miami and New York, alongside a network of domestic services. Charters are also flown in the Caribbean area. Head Office: Calle el Donde 83, Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic. .rf^ 3460394. Executives: chairman Dr Eudoro Sanchez y Sanc hez; first vice-president, Jose T. Aguilar; second v-p, Ing Heriberto de Castro; administrator general, Brig Gen Luis A. Beauchamps J; directors: financial, Lie Carlos Ml. Nin; operations, Capt George H. Percival; maintenance, Michael Fleischer; commercial Marina G. de Bonnelly. Employees: 582. Fleet: one Boeing 707-320C, one 727-200, one 727-100, one 727-100C, two DC-6B. Druk-Air (Royal Bhutan Airlines), the national airline of Bhutan, was formed on April 1, 1981, and commenced operations in February 1983, linking Paro and Calcutta. Head Office: PO Box 209, Thimphu, Bhutan. -*^'021 2440 DRUK IN. Executives: chairman, HRH Ashi S. C. Wangchuck; managing director, Tshering Wangdi; resident director Calcutta, P. S. Joseph. Employees: 34. Fleet: two Dornier 228-200. Eagle Air (Arnarflug) was formed on April 10, 1976, as a private company to operate international charter flights, and operations began in June of that year. In September 1978 Icelandair acquired 57'5 pei* cent interest (now 40 per cent) in Eagle Air and other shareholders are the employees with 22 per cent,*^ Co-operative Society 17 per cent, and the remaining, 21 per cent in the hands of 600-700 minor investors. In 1979 Eagle Air was authorised to operate sched-t uled passenger services, and these currently link Reykjavik with 11 points in Iceland as well as* Amsterdam, Diisseldorf, and Zurich. Eagle Air_ acquired Iscargo, the cargo airline of Iceland, in March 1982. Head Office: Lagmula 7, PO Box 1406, 121 Reykjavik, Iceland. L ^^'2183. Executives: chairman, Haukur Bjornsson; manag-"* ing director, Agnar Fridriksson; directors: flight oper ations, Capt Gudmundur Magnusson; ground oper ations, Jon Arnason; finance, Gudmundur Hauksson^ marketing/sales, Magnus Oddsson. Employees: 70. f Fleet: one Boeing 707-320B, one 707-320C, one 737-200C, one Twin Otter, one Cheyenne II, one"* Cessna 402C. Eastern Air Lines was formed in 1926 as Pitcairn, Aviation, starting a mail service between New York and Atlanta in May 1928. In 1929 the company was'' acquired by North American Aviation, the name being changed to Eastern Air Transport. In 1938"* North American relinquished its holding and the, company adopted its present title after some reor ganisation. Several other airlines have been absorbed, \ including New York Airways (1931), Ludington Airlines (1933), Colonial Airlines (1956), Mackey"* Airlines (1967) and Caribbean Atlantic Airlines in 1974. Eastern currently serves more than 100 points in 34 states in the USA and the District of Columbia, ^ Canada, Mexico, the Bahamas, Bermuda, and the Caribbean. During 1982 the airline began operations "* on former Braniff routes to South America, serving Panama City, Barranquilla, Bogota, Cali, Quito, Guayaquil, Lima, La Paz, Asuncion, Santiago, and ^ Buenos Aires. Eastern's domestic operations include the Air-Shuttle, a no-reservations guaranteed-seat i service, which was inaugurated in 1961 and now oper ates between New York, Washington, and Boston. On 1 January 1, 1983 Eastern became the first airline to . put the Boeing 757 into service. Head Office: Miami International Airport, Miami, , Florida, 33148, USA. .^^ 519242. Executives: chairman/president/chief executive, Frank Borman; senior vice-presidents: legal ' affairs/secretary, Richard P. Magurno; operations & chief pilot, Capt Robert J. Shipner; planning, Morton Ehrlich; finance, Wayne A. Yeoman; technical support services, John E. Hurst Jr; operations services, Joseph B. Leonard; marketing, Russell L. Ray Jr. Employees: 37,500. Fleet: 24 TriStar 1, 32 Airbus A300B4, two ... A300B2, 20 Boeing 757, 95 727-200, 24 727-100, 21 DC-9-50, 58 DC-9-30. On order: seven 757. Eastern Provincial Airways (EPA) was originally formed in 1949 following a reorganisation of Newfoundland Aero Sales and Services of St John's and scheduled operations began in 1950. In 1963 EPA took over Maritime Central Airways. Eastern Provincial routes now cover services from Toronto and Montreal to Charlottetown, Halifax, Deer Lake, Stephenville, St John's, Wabush, Churchill Falls, Goose Bay, Gander, Sydney, Moncton, Chatham, Charlo, Fredericton, Saint John, and Magdalen Islands in Quebec Province. Air Maritime is a division formed to operate the parent company's I HS.748s on shorthaul routes in Atlantic Canada. In f September 1984 EPA was acquired by CP Air but will J continue to operate as a separate entity. Head Office: PO Box 5001, Gander, Newfoundland, f Canada. [ •016-43514. I 72 FLIGHT International, 30 March 1985'
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