FLIGHT International, 6 May 1971

Lansa Airlines DC-3 left, and, opposite below, the Lloyd Aereo Boliviano Boeing 727. Below, one of the three Heralds operated by La Urraca Airlines

Aires. Services to Miami are envisaged and Varig (Brazil) has provided tech­nical and commercial assistance.

Head Office: Aeropuerto Campo Grande, Asuncion, Paraguay.

Executives: President, Lt-Col Adrian Jara ; executive manager, Col Enrique M. Nardi.

Fleet: Three Electra, three CV-240.

Linjeflyg AB was founded in 1957 to operate domestic passenger services and newspaper delivery flights in Sweden. Operations began in April 1957. Charter and ambulance work is also undertaken. Linjeflyg is jointly owned by AB Aero-transport (50% ) and Scandinavian Air­lines System (50% ).

Head Office: Bromma Airport 161 10, Stockholm, Sweden.

Executives: Chairman, N. Horjel; president, Arne Wickberg; technical manager, Hugo Sandberg; operations manager, P. O. Olemyr; economics manager, A. Folkstad; marketing mana­ger, S. Sandberg; personnel manager, Knut Andreasson; public relations manager, Margit Reisz.

Employees: 653. Fleet: 18 Convair CV-440, four Nord

262.

Lloyd Aereo Boliviano SA (LAB) was founded in 1925. The Bolivian Govern­ment have a controlling interest (74 14%) the remainder of the stock being in private hands. A network of domestic and international routes to Chile, Peru, Argentina and Brazil are operated.

Head Office: Casilla 132, Cochabamba, Bolivia.

Executives: President, Frederico Casa-novas; manager, Jose Rico; commercial manager, Edgar Rios; purchasing manager, Julio Valenzuela.

Employees: 681. Fleet: One Boeing 727-100, one Electra,

two Fairchild F-27M, two DC-6B, six DC-3.

Lloyd International Airways Ltd was formed in January 1961 to operate long-haul freight charter flights, especially to the Far East. A weekly scheduled freight flight to Singapore and Hong Kong is to be increased to six a month from June 1 next. In January 1971 Lloyd concluded an agreement to oper­ate scheduled freight flights on behalf of East African Airways, between London and Dar-es-Salaam, Nairobi, Entebbe, Nairobi and Lusaka. Passenger charter and inclusive-tour flights are also undertaken. The airline and its associate, Lloyd Aircraft Services Ltd, are subsidiaries of Lloyd Aviation Hold­ings Ltd and are based at Stansted.

Head Office: Lloyd House, First Avenue, Stansted Airport, Essex.

Executives: Chairman, J. Ortiz-Patino; deputy chairman, M. D. Day; managing director, Donald L. Willis; deputy managing director/technical director,

L. N. Monnickendam; sales director, D. Shepherd; chief pilot, Capt D. G. Blake; operations manager, D. M. Parlane; special projects manager, J. A. Bowden.

Employees: 260. Fleet: Two Boeing 707-321, four

Britannia 307/312F.

Loftleidir HF (Icelandic Airlines), formed on March 10, 1944, has operated services within Iceland and to European destinations, but since March 1952 has confined its activities to the operation of North Atlantic services linking New York and Reykjavik to Glasgow, London, Luxembourg, Copenhagen, Gothenberg, and Oslo. Fares are below lata economy rates, although the sectors east of Ice­land have lata agreed fares. Subsidiary companies of Loftleidir are International Air Bahama, acquired in October 1969, and Cargolux Airlines International, formed in March 1970.

Head Office: Reykjavik Airport, Ice­land.

Executives: Chairman, Kristjan Gud-laugsson; managing director, Alfred Eliasson; operations director, Kristinn E. Olsen; financial director, Finnbjorn Thorvaldsson; purchasing director, Gud-mundur Vijhjalmsson; director, cor­porate planning, Johannes Einarsson.

Employees: 1,000. Fleet: Two DC-8-63, one Canadair

CL44J.

Los Angeles Airways Inc, the pioneer helicopter airline operator, suspended operations in October 1970 and went into liquidation in January 1971 following excessive losses during the first half of 1970.

LOT (Polskie Linie Lotnicze) was formed by the Government in 1929 to take over the operations of the private companies Aerolot and Aero. By the year 1939 LOT had established itself with a modern fleet of Lockheed 10 Electras, Lockheed 14s and DC-2s. Part of this fleet was brought to England when war broke out and served with BOAC. The airline flies domestic ser­vices linking Warsaw and some of the main towns of Poland and international services to principal cities in Europe and to Beirut and Cairo. The airline carried 950,000 passengers in 1970.

Head Office: ul Grojecka 17, Warsaw, Poland.

Executives: General director; W. Wilanowski; commercial director, M. Hedemann; technical director, W. Jannasz.

Employees: 3,388. Fleet: Five Tupolev Tu-134, 13 An-

tonov An-24, eight Ilyushin 11-18, nine 11-14.

LTU—see Lufttransport-Unternehmen.

Lufthansa (Deutsche Lufthansa AG— DLH) began postwar operations in April 1955. The original DLH was founded in

635 January 1926, although its winged crest originated with Deutsche Luftreederei in 1919. Lufthansa operates an extensive world-wide network of scheduled pas­senger and cargo services and during 1970 added Gothenberg, Manchester, Sofia, Damascus, Mauritius and Merida to the system, which now totals 95 points in 61 countries on six continents. Subsidiaries of Lufthansa are Condor Flugdienst and Lufthansa Service GmbH.

Head Office: 2-6 von Gablenz-Str, D-5000 Cologne 21, West Germany.

Executives: Chairman, Dr Herman Abs; executive board; Dr Herbert Cul-mann, Prof Dipl Ing Gerhard Hoeltje, Dipl Ing Hans Suessenguth, Gerhard Fruehe.

Employees: 20,910. Fleet: Three Boeing 747-30, two 747-

230, 11 707-330B, six 707-330C, four 707-430, nine 737-30, 11 727-30C, two 727-230, 20 737-30, four 737-230, two 737-230QC. On order: One 747-230F, three 727-230. On option: Six Concorde.

Lufttransport-Unternehmen GmbH & Co KG (LTU) was founded in 1955 as Luttransport Union, the present name being adopted in 1956 to avoid confusion with another company. LTU is a private company and concentrates on inclusive-tour and charter operations. LTU has formed a special subsidiary to operate scheduled domestic flights for Lufthansa and local governments. The company, Interregional, operates Fokker F.27 and Nord 262 aircraft transferred from LTU.

Head Office: Georg-Glockstrasse 10, Dusseldorf, West Germany.

Executives: Managing director/owner, Capt E. J. Ahrens; director, Capt W. Krauss.

Fleet: Four Caravelle 10R, five Fokker F.28.

Luxair (Societe Anonyme Luxem-bourgeoise de Navigation Aerienne), originally known as Luxembourg Air­lines, has been designated by the Luxembourg G o v e r n m e n t as the country's flag carrier. It started opera­tions in the spring of 1962 and at present flies from Luxembourg to Paris, Frankfurt, London, Brussels, Athens, Vienna, Milan, Amsterdam, Split, Nice and Palma de Mallorca. Low-fare ser­vices to Johannesburg are operated in agreement with Trek Airways.

Head Office: PO Box 2203, Luxembourg Airport, Luxembourg.

Executives: President, F e r n a n d Loesch; general manager, Roger Sietzen; deputy general manager, J. Nesser; technical manager, Daniel McDonnell; reservations manager, L. Cerri; commer­cial manager, T. Breisch.

Fleet: One Caravelle 6R, one Boeing 707-344, one Viscount 815, three Fokker F.27.

Mac.Robertson Miller Airline Services (MMA), a division of Ansett Transport Industries (Operations) Pty Ltd since June 1, 1969, began operations on October 1, 1955 following the merger of Mac.Robertson Miller Aviation Co (Pty) and Airlines (Western Australia) Ltd. Scheduled passenger and freight ser­vices are operated along the length of the west coast of Australia. Following the acquisition of the remaining 32 per cent shareholding in January 1969, MMA became wholly owned by Ansett Transport Industries.

Head Office: 194 St George's Terrace, Perth, Western Australia.

Executives'. Chairman, Sir Reginald Rushton; general manager, C. N. Kleinig; operations manager, K. D. Cohen; commercial manager, J. E. Karasek; secretary, A. J. Yates; person­nel manager, D. C. Davies.

Employees: 520. Fleet: Three Fokker F.28, four F.27,

one DC-3, one Twin Otter. On order: One F.28.

Maersk Air, a subsidiary of the Danish A. P. Moller shipping company, was