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HIGH ,-notiono/, 24 October 1968 657 BRITAIN'S AIRLINE INDUSTRY Company-by-company information on the scheduled and non-scheduled carriers Traffic figures tabulated, pages 660-661, 662; air taxi operators, page 665; financial results, pages 665-666 Air Hidings Ltd was incorporated in 1961 as an investment holding company. Although it divested itself of some of its air transport interests during 1968, it remains the parent company of British Air Ferries. It is also the parent company of Airspray (EA), Airspray (Tanzania), Airwork Services, Aviation Traders (Engineering), Canaries Hotels, Exeter Air- port, Fairways Travel & Ticket Agency, Lero'y Tours, Lyons Tours, Olley Travel Service, Safe Air and Whitehall Travel. In 1968 Air Holdings ordered 50 Lockheed L-lOlls and was awarded the franchise to re-sell them outside the USA. Shareholders are British & Commonwealth Shipping Co (Aviation) (45.9 per cent), Furness Withy & Co (20 per cent), P & O Steam Navigation Co (20 per cent), Broadminster Nominees (8.1 per cent), and Eagle Star Insurance (6 per cent). Head Office: Portland House, Stag Place, London SW1. T: 01-842 9477. Executives: directors, Sir Errington Keville (chairman), Sir Nicholas Cayzer (deputy chairman), R. L. Cumming (managing), Sir Donald Anderson, F. A. Bishop, J. A. MacConochie, Sir Brian Mountain. Autair International Airways Ltd has expanded rapidly since it first started airline operations in 1960 as a development of the helicopter work started in 1954 by the company of a similar name. Autair is now a member of the Court Line group of companies and holds licences to operate a range of domestic and European scheduled services. The company's main base is at Luton Airport, where it has engineering facilities to carry out all mainte- nance and overhaul work on its own aircraft and, in addition, undertakes contract mainte- nance on the aircraft of other operators. From Luton scheduled services are operated to Blackpool, Carlisle, Hull and Tees-side. Summer services also link Hull and Jersey and Blackpool. In 1968 Dundee was added to the domestic destinations served from Luton. Other new routes served to Amsterdam from Hull and Tees-side, to Dublin and Belfast from Tees- side, to Jersey from Carlisle, Dundee and Tees-side and to the Isle of Man from Dundee, Hull and Tees-side. A wide range of inclusive- tour services are also operated from Luton by Autair, and both passenger and cargo charters are regularly undertaken. Many of the airline's operations are in close association with Clarksons Tours. It is planned to introduce two One-Eleven 400s in spring, 1969, bringing the number of 400s operated to five, and to introduce five One-Eleven 500s in spring, 1970. An option has been taken on three further 500s. Autair's future policies envisage a growth in all its operations and it has managed to develop a route network linking centres not previously well served by air transport. Head Office: North London Air Terminal, 202-204 Finchley Road, London NW3. T: Swiss Cottage 4425. Executives: directors: J. R. Young; chair- man G. H. G. Threlfall, deputy chairman; E. J. Posey, managing director and chief executive; W. H. Armstrong; T. S. Buxton, technical; Capt M. Rowan, operations; G. H. Bond; manager, administration, B. W. Davis; sales manager, P. C. Dorrington; chief pilot, Capt C. P. C. Dibley. Employees: 500. Fleet: three BAC One-Eleven 400s, three HP Dart Heralds, two HS.748s; on order, two One-Eleven 400s, five One-Eleven 500s. Aurigny Air Services Ltd is a subsidiary of Glos-Air (see the list of air-taxi operators) formed early this year to operate services within the Channel Islands and to the French mainland. Its operating base is at Alderney Airport. Head Office: Staverton Airport, Cheltenham, Glos. T: 045271-3385. Executives: chairman, Sir Derrick Bailey; managing director, C. Poole; general mana- ger, F. Morton; chief pilot, Capt H. R. Lane. Fleet: three BN-2A; six BN-2A under delivery. British Air Services Ltd is a company recon- structed in 1967 for the purpose of acting as holding company for BKS Air Transport Ltd and Cambrian Airways Ltd (q.v.). These two companies are wholly-owned subsidiaries of BAS; the issued share capital of BAS (£1 million in ordinary 5s shares) is 70 per cent owned by BEA, and the remaining 30 per cent is held by the former BKS and Cambrian shareholders (other than BEA). The purpose of this reorganisation was to improve the financial strength of BKS and Cambrian, while at the same time ensuring that their autonomy as two of the country's leading regional airlines was maintained. Head Office: Seymour Mews House, Seymour Mews, London Wl. T: 01-486 4736. Executives: chairman and managing director, A. C. Ping. Fleet: on order, two HS Trident lEs for use by BKS. BEA Helicopters Ltd was formed on January 1, 1964, to take over and expand the State airline's VTOL activities; it is a wholly owned subsidiary of the corporation. BEA Helicopters can look back on 21 years of helicopter development since the BEA helicopter unit was established in 1947. It was the extensive pioneering work BEA has begun the introduction of its new livery, seen here on a Trident 2
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