https://hollywoodstampclub.com HSC Enrique HOLLYWOOD STAMP CLUB DIGITAL SETARO, HOLLYWOOD EDITION 19 HSC SEP 15, Editor PHILATELIST 2020 FFC’s then (1937) and now (1973) Page 2 Unusual First Flight Covers … On May 24, 1937, two years before Worlxs War II, this cover from Marseille, France was sent via Lisbon, Portugal to NY (?) USA. Transatlantic Mail with Lisbon connecting (May 25) airport cancel on back. Uses France Red 3 Fr (SC 340) and has cachet: “1st. Air Mail Service - France USA”, red in French. On June 19, 1973 this FFC via Iberia DC10/30 was sent to Iberia’s HDQS in Washington DC with Dulles Airport arrival postmark on the back, with 15 Ptas. Stamp (SC 1751) Airplanes or IATA Balloons Rice terraces strung with Page 5 Page 5 lights in Wajima, Japan .. Page 5 1 Unusual First Flight Covers airlines Varig and Syndicato Condor, which September 1928, and started operations on later became Serviços Aéreos Cruzeiro do 27 September that year. In 1937, the air- When we talk about FFC (First Flight Co- Sul. line absorbed Cia de Aviacion Peruanas vers) the names that pop up are Panam, SA from Panagra. KLM, SAS and others. Hewre we will dis- cover FFCs of airlines not so common. Olympic Airlines formerly named Olympic Airways for at least four decades, was Ghana Airways Limited was the national the flag carrier airline of Greece. The air- airline of the Republic of Ghana with its line's head office was in Athens. The airline main base of operation, and hub, at Kotoka operated services to 37 domestic destina- International Airport in Accra. The airline tions and to 32 destinations world-wide. ceased operations in 2004. The air- line's main base Compañía de Aviación Faucett, colloquially was known simply as Faucett Perú or Faucett, at Athens Interna- was a Peruvian airline. It was headquar- tered on the grounds of Jorge Chávez In- tional Air- ternational Airport in Lima. port, with hubs at Thessaloniki International Airport, "Macedonia", Heraklion international Air- port, "Nikos Kazantzakis" and Rhodes In- LATI (Linee Aeree Transcontinentali Ital- ternational Airport, "Diagoras". Olympic iane, "Italian Transcontinental Airlines") Airlines also owned a base at London was an early transatlantic airline operating Heathrow International Airport. By Decem- between Italy and South America between ber 2007, the airline employed about 8,500 1939 and 1941. Although the transatlantic staff. service was permanently discontinued in Imperial Airways was the early British December 1941 following the entry of commercial long-range airline, operating the United States into World War II, the from 1924 to 1939 and principally serving company continued to exist until 1956. Elmer J. Faucett had been sent to Peru as the British Empire routes to South Afri- a representative of the Curtiss Export Com- Condor Syndikat was a German trade ca, India and the Far East, including Aus- pany, arriving in the country from company, with headquarters in Berlin, that tralia, Malaya and Hong Kong. The air- the United States in 1920. In 1928, he and operated airline services in Brazil while also planes provided seats for about 20 passen- a group of Peruvian business men joined providing aircraft, maintenance and avia- gers, typically businessman or colonial ad- together to found the first commercial air- tion information. It is also the parent ministrators. line in Peru, and one of the first in Latin company of the Brazilian America. The company was formed on 15 2 Accidents were frequent: in the first six TAP Air Portugal is the flag carri- "Queensland and Northern Territory Aerial years, er airline of Portugal, headquartered Services", and it is nicknamed "The Flying 32 at Lisbon Airport which also serves as Kangaroo". people its hub. TAP – Transportes Aéreos Portu- Austrian Airlines AG, sometimes shortened died in gueses – has been a member of the Star to Austrian, is the flag carrier of Austria and seven Alliance since 2005 and operates on aver- a subsidiary of the Lufthansa inci- age 2,500 flights a week to 90 destina- Group. The airline is headquartered on the dents. tions in 34 countries worldwide. The com- grounds of Vienna International Air- Imperi- pany has a fleet of 100 airplanes, all of port in Schwechat where it also maintains al Air- which manufactured by Airbus with the ex- its hub. As of July 2016, the airline flew to ways never achieved the levels of techno- ception of 22 made by Embraer and ATR, six domes- logical innovation of its competitors, and operat- tic and was merged into the British Overseas Air- ing on more than ways Corporation (BOAC) in 1939. BOAC in behalf of 120 inter- turn merged with the British European Air- the re- national ways (BEA) in 1974 to form British Airways. gional year-round The Societé anonyme belge d'Exploitation air- and sea- de la Navigation aérienne better known by line TAP sonal desti- the acronym Sabena or SABENA, was the Express. nations in national airline of Belgium from 1923 to 55 countries. and is a member of the Star 2001, with its base at Brussels National Air- Qantas Airways Limited is the flag carri- Alliance. The airline was formed in 1957 by port. After its bankruptcy in 2001, the new- er of Australia and its largest airline by fleet the merger of Air Austria and Austrian Air- ly formed SN Brussels Airlines took over size, inter- ways, but traces its history back to 1923 at part of Sabena's assets in February 2002, national the founding of Austrian Airways. which became Brussels Airlines after a mer- flights and Braniff Airways, Inc., doing business ger with Virgin Express in March 2007. The interna- as Braniff International Airways, from 1948 airline's tional des- until 1965, and then Braniff Internation- corporate tinations. It al from 1965 until closure, was an American headquar- is the third airline that flew air carrier operations from ters were oldest air- 1928 until 1982 and continues today as a located in line in the retail, branding and licensing company, ad- the Sabena world, after KLM and Avianca, having been ministering the former airline's employee House on founded in November 1920; it began inter- pass program and other administrative du- the national passenger flights in May 1935. The ties. Braniff's routes were primarily in the grounds Qantas name comes from "QANTAS", midwestern and southwestern U. S, Mexi- of Brussels Airport in Zaventem. an acronym for its original name, co, Central America, and South America. 3 In the late 1970s Braniff expanded El Al Israel Airlines Ltd., since its inaugu- The Aérospatiale/BAC Concorde is a Brit- to Asia and Europe. The airline ceased air ral flight from Geneva to Tel Aviv in Sep- ish–French turbojet-powered supersonic carrier operations in May 1982 because of tember 1948, the airline has grown to serve passenger airliner that was operated until high fuel prices, credit card interest rates over 50 2003. It had a maximum speed over twice and ex- destina- the speed of sound, at Mach 2.04 treme tions, op- (1,354 mph or 2,180 km/h at cruise alti- competi- erating tude), with seating for 92 to 128 passen- tion from scheduled gers. First flown in 1969, Concorde entered new air- domestic service in 1976 and continued flying for the line and inter- next 27 years. It is one of only startups national two supersonic transports to have been op- created services erated commercially; the other is the Soviet by and cargo flights with- -built Tupolev Tu-144, which operated in the Airline Deregulation Act of December in Israel, and the late 1978. Two later airlines used the Braniff to Europe, the Middle 1970s. name: the Hyatt Hotels-backed Braniff, Inc. East, the Americas, Ceased in 1984–89, and Braniff International Air- Africa, Australia and flights in lines, Inc. in 1991–92. the Far East, from its 2003. On Japan Airlines Co., Ltd. also known main base in Ben Guri- Septem- as Nikkō or JAL, is an international airline on Airport. ber 1971 and Japan's flag carrier, headquartered El Al is the only com- there was in Shinagawa, Tokyo. Its main hubs are To- mercial airline to equip a light kyo's Narita International Airport and Tokyo its planes with missile from Buenos Aires, Argentina to Toulouse, International Airport (Haneda Airport), as defense systems to protect its planes France. well as Osaka's Kansai International Air- against surface-to-air missiles, and is con- Concorde was jointly developed and manu- port and Osaka International Airport. JAL sidered one of the world's most secure air- factured by Sud Aviation (later Aérospa- group companies include Japan Airlines, J- lines, thanks to its stringent security proce- tiale) and the British Aircraft Corporation Air, Japan Air Commuter, Japan Transocean dures, both on the ground and on board its (BAC) under an Anglo-French treaty. Twen- Air, and Ryukyu Air Commuter for domestic aircraft. Although it has been the target of ty aircraft were built, including six proto- feeder many attempted types and development aircraft. Air services, hijackings and France and British Airways were the only and JAL terror attacks, airlines to purchase and fly Concorde. The Cargo only one El Al aircraft was used mainly by wealthy pas- for car- flight has ever sengers who could afford to pay a high go and been hijacked; price in exchange for the aircraft's speed mail ser- that incident did and luxury service. vices. not result in any fatalities. 4 The International Air Transport Associa- IATA consisted of 57 airlines from 31 coun- its for airlines. tion (IATA) is a trade tries.