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History: Lina Congo was formed in August 1965 as the successor to the private-enterprise Air Congo, formed in 1961 Major stockholder is the Government.

Fleet: one Boeing 737-200QC, one Fokker F.28-1000, one F-27-600, two Twin Otter.

Executives: director-general, Jean Jacques OntsaOntsa; directors: commercial, Basile Ngoyo-Adouma; finance &r administration, Alexandre Bayonne; flight operations, Placide Okournou; technical, Ange Yengo.

Employees: 250. Head Office: PO Box 2203, Brazzaville, Republic of the

Congo Tel: 813 065/6. Telex: 5243 LINCONGO KG.

Lineas Aereas Canarias is a Tenerife-based charter carrier Passenger and cargo services are operated from the Canary Islands to Europe and North Africa.

History: The airline was formed in 1985. Fleet: five MD-83. Executives: chief executive, Joaquin Suner Machado;

director, Rodofo Hunez, public relations manager, J. Acuna.

Head Office: Avenida Anaga 43, Santa Cruz de Tenerife 38001, Canary Islands, Spain.

Tel. (22) 275016. Fax: (22) 289308. Telex: 92482.

Linea Aeropostal Venezolana (Aeropostal) operates a large domestic network of scheduled passenger services. International destinations served are Curacao, Aruba, and Port of Spain-

History: LAV was founded in 1933, when the Venezue­lan Government took over the routes and equipment of the Cie Generale Aeropostale, which had begun operating in Venezuela in 1930. LAV took over TACA de Venezuela on July 1, 1957 The international services of LAV and Avensa are now operated by Viasa, in which LAV has a small holding.

Fleet: three MD-83, ten DC-9-50, three DC-9-30, one DC-9-30F, one DC-9-15, six Twin Otter.

Executives: president, Gen Oscar Araque Angulo; first vice-president, Victor Vasquez Vivas.

Employees: 1,700. Head Office; Torre Capriles, Plaza Venezuela, Pisos 21-

22-23, Caracas 105, Venezuela. Tel: +58 (2) 782 0379. Telex: 21742.

Lineas Aereas del Caribe (LAC Colombia) operates cargo, services from Colombian cities to Miami, Panama, Vene­zuela, and throughout South America.

History: The company was formed in 1974. Fleet: one DC-8-30F, one DC-8-50F, two DC-6A Executives: chairman, Orlando Donado; V-Ps: Raul

Donado; north area, Carlos Donado; technical, Herman Olarte.

Employees: 270. Head Office: Calle 39, No. 41-31, PO Box >192,

Barranquilla, Colombia. Tel: +57 5 319784/94. Telex: 33421.

Lineas Aereas Costarricenses SA (LACSA), Costa Rica's national carrier, currently operates scheduled passenger and cargo services from San Jose to Los Angeles, New Orleans, Miami, New York, San Juan (Puerto Rico), Cancun, Mexico City, Guatemala, El Salvador, San Pedro Sula, Panama, Barranquilla, Maracaibo, and Caracas. A domestic network is operated by Servicios Aereos Nacion-ales (SANSA), a subsidiary of LACSA. Current sharehold­ers are the Government (3.8%), LACSA employees (6.5%), and the public (89.7%).

History: LACSA was founded in 1945 by Pan American, the Costa Rican Government and Costa Rican private interests. Operations began in June 1946, and in 1952 the company tdok over Taca de Costa Rica, which had operated since 1939 as a unit of the Taca system.

Fleet: four Boeing 727-200, one 727-100. On order: four A320,twoA310.

Executives; chairman and president, Mario Quiros L.; director-general, Luis Casafont F.; vice-presidents: fi­nance, Gerardo Jaspers; commercial, Hernan Gomez.

Employees: 996. Head Office: Edificio Lacsa, Apartado 1531, La Uruca,

San Jose, Costa Rica.

FLIGHT INTERNATIONAL 14-20 March 1990

Tel: +506 323555. Fax: +506 324178. Telex: 2188 LACSA.

Lineas Aereas del Estado (LADE) is a branch of the Argentine Air Force. The carrier operates from El Palomar Air Base, Buenos Aires, to 31 domestic points in the southern part of the country, known as Patagonia. LADE is charged with operating fast and efficient communica­tions between the various regions of the State to promote political, economic and social development.

History: LADE was founded in September 1940. Fleet: one Lockheed L-100-30, five Fokker F.28-

1000C, six F.27-400M, two F.27-500, five F.27-600, seven Twin Otter.

Executives: director, Brig D. Aly luis Ipres Corbat; deputy director, vice-commodoro D. Ricardo Augusto Degano; chief of operations, vice-commodoro D. Jose A. Gutierrez.

Head Office: Peru 714, Buenos Aires, Argentina. Tel:+54 (1)49 0361/1675. Telex: 12240 AR.

Lineas Aereas Occidental is a newly-formed Mexican carrier operating services with xhree ex-AeroMexico DC-9-15s leased from GPA.

Lineas Aereas Paraguayas (LAP-Paraguayan Airlines), the national airline of Paraguay, operates a network of scheduled domestic and international passenger and cargo services. The airline's management is made up of Para­guayan Air Force officers. The carrier's international routes link Asuncion with Miami, Santiago, Santa Cruz de la Sierra, Montevideo, Buenos Aires, Sao Paulo, Rio de Janeiro, Lima, Madrid, Brussels, and Frankfurt.

History; LAP was formed in 1962 and operations began in August 1963.

Fleet: one DC-8-63, two DC-8-61, three Boeing 707-320B, oneL-188Electra.

Executives: chairman, Gen Geraldo Johansen Roux; president, Gen Raul F. Calvert; finance director, Corina Gimenez.

Employees: 1,000. Head Office: Oliva 455, Asuncion, Paraguay. Tel: +595 (21) 91041. Fax: +595 (21) 96484. Telex:

174.

Lineas Aereas Privadas Argentinas (LAPA), a Buenos Aires based carrier, operates scheduled passenger services within the Buenos Aires and Entre Rio provinces, plus a route to Uruguay. Charter services are also operated.

History: Charter operations began in 1978 and sched­uled services followed a year later.

Fleet: two Saab 340, one Cheyenne II. Head Office: Reconquista 1056, Cap. Fed. (1003),

Buenos Aires, Argentina. Tel. +54 (1) 311-2492/4. Telex: 33 9031.

Linhas Aereas de Angola (TAAG-Angola Airlines) oper­ates an extensive network of scheduled passenger and cargo services from Luanda to 18 points in Angola, plus international routes to Sao Tome, Kinshasa, Sal, Brazza­ville, Maputo, Lusaka, Havana, Paris, Rome, Berlin-Schonefeld, Lisbon, Moscow, and Rio de Janeiro. With effect from November 1989, TAAG planned to operate Luanda-Rio de Janeiro with a leased DC-10-30. The airline has two associated companies, TAAG-Air Charter (with a fleet of two 707-320C operating cargo flights) and TAAG-Aviacao Ligeira (general aviation).

History: TAAG was originally formed as DTA in 1939 as a division of the Ports, Railways and Transport Authority of Portuguese West Africa. The carrier was redesignated TAAG-Angola Airlines following independence in 1973.

Fleet; one Boeing 707-320B, five 707-320C, four 737-200, one 737-200C, one Lockheed L100-20, one Fokker F.27-400M, one F.27-500, three F.27-600, one F.27-100, two Yakovlev Yak-40.

Executives: president, Jose A. Fernandes, directors: commercial, Mario Cunha; flight operations, j . Dionisio Martins; planning & finance, J. Branco Ferreira; mainte­nance and engineering, J. Poulson Teixeira; managers: purchasing and stores, Luis Almeida; personnel and training, Adelia Cohen; TAAG-Air Charter, Henrique Setas; TAAG-Aviacao Ligeira, Mario de Oliveira.

Employees: 5,770. Head Office: Rua da Missao 123, PO Box 79, Luanda RP,

Angola. Tel: +244 332990. Telex: 3285.

Linhas Aereas de Mocambique (LAM) operates domestic scheduled passenger services from Maputo to Beira, Quelimane, Nampula, Pemba, Tete and Lichinga; regional services to Johannesburg, Harare Matsapa and Dar-es-Salam; and intercontinental flights to Lisbon, Madrid, Paris, Copenhagen, and Berlin (Schonefeld).

History: LAM was formed in August 1936 as Direcao de Exploracao dos Transportes Aereos (DETA) by the Gov­ernment of Mozambique, as a division of the Railways, Harbours and Airways administration. Early in 1980 DETA was restructured and renamed.

Fleet: one DC-10-30, two Boeing 737-200, one 737-200C, one I1-62MK (VIP use), one An-26.

Executives: chairman/DG, Jose Ricardo Zuzarte Viegas; deputy G-M, Carlos Morgado; commercial director, Abdul Kha Leek; asst. economic & finance G-M, Geremias Tchamo; managers: maintenance, Jaime Almeida, finance, Deolinda Matos, corporate planning, Alvaro de Jesus Antunes; chief pilot, Capt Rui Pedro.

Employees: 1,700. Head Office: CP 2060, Maputo, Mozambique. Telex: +258 6-332/6-386 MPMTM MO.

Liniile Aeriene Romane (LAR) was formed in 1975 as the charter subsidiary of Tarom. International passenger char­ter and inclusive-tour flights are operated within Europe.

Fleet: three One-Eleven 400. Executives: managing director, C. Radut; commercial/

financial director, C. Topala; chief pilot, Capt I. Botezatu. Head Office: Otopeni Airport, Bucharest, Romania.

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Linjeflyg, a Swedish domestic carrier, is the largest European operator of the Fokker F.28. The airline is jointly owned by AB Aerotransport (50%) and SAS (50%) Routes: The company's 38-point domestic network of scheduled passenger services links Stockholm (Arlanda) with most major business and holiday centres in Sweden. Charter flights are also operated.

History. The airline was founded in 1957 to operate passenger services and newspaper delivery flights in Sweden.

Fleet: three Fokker F.28-1000, 17 F.28-4000, eight Saab . 340 (leased in from Swedair). On order: six Boeing 737-

500. Executives: chairman, N. Horjel; president, Christer

Nilsson; V-Ps: operations, Rolf Carlsson; marketing, Lars Berglof, technical, Ragnar Hellstadius; finance, Jan Bergi-us; airline planning, Jan Ake Jousson.

Employees: 1,900. Head Office: Arlanda Flygplats, Box 550, S-19045

Stockholm-Arlanda, Sweden. Tel: +46 (8) 797 5000. Fax: +46 (8) 760 62294. Telex:

19165

Lionair, jointly formed by Luxair and Cargolux in Decem­ber 1987 to operate non-scheduled passenger services, is now operating solely as a leasing company, with two Boeing 747-100s.

Fleet: two Boeing 747-100. Head Office: c/o Cargolux Airlines Int. S. A. , PO Box

591, L-2105 Luxemburg, Grand Duchy of Luxembourg. Tel: +352 4360211. Fax +352 435446. Telex: 2272.

Litoral is a newly formed Mexican charter airline with two NAMCYS-lls.

Lloyd Aero Boliviano (LAB) operates a network of scheduled passenger and cargo services consisting of 21 cities within Bolivia, and 15 international destinations, viz

* Buenos Aires, Asuncion, Sao Paulo, Arica, Lima, Santiago, Manaus, Caracas, Cuzco, Panama, Salta, Rio de Janeiro, Belo Horizonte, Montevideo, and Miami.

History: LAB was formed on September 15, 1925, and is now 99.98% Government owned.

Fleet: two Boeing 707-320C, three 727-200, two 727-100, one 727-100C, one Fokker F.27-600, one F.27-200.

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