MAIL REQUESTS As most other serious collectors I have sent hundreds of letters with timetable requests to airlines all over the world. Some sent letters accompanying the timetables (if they at all bothered sending anything) - a selection of those letters are listed below. Some have nice letterheads, others are interesting for other reasons and most are from rare and remote airlines - i.e. from my horizon. A good deal of the airlines are gone since long. I believe that I sent the first letter requesting a timetable to Aeroflot's office in either Copenhagen or Stockholm in 1963. They did not let me down. Other early ones were sent to the headquarters of Ethiopian Airlines, South African Airways and Trans-Australia Airlines. To my disappointment, the two latter sent just brochures and other items, though I soon found their timetables locally (Malmö, Sweden). The funniest letter I ever received was from a smaller Australian airline which politely told me that they, regrettably, could not employ me as a pilot for the time being. I have always wondered if a hopeful pilot somewhere to his big surprise was furnished with a timetable when expecting a reply to his application. Ethiopian Airlines, Addis Ababa, 1963 Philippine Air Lines, London, 1968 Air Congo, Brussels, 1968 Air Rhodesia, 1968 (I sent the request to the office in London, but got the reply - with timetable - from Salisbury!) APSA, Miami, 1968 Southern Airways, Atlanta, 1968 THY, Frankfurt, 1968 Ecuatoriana, Quito, 1969 SAM, Medellín, 1969 Zambia Airways, Lusaka, 1970 Pluna, Montevideo, 1970 Air Mali, Bamako, 1970 Ariana Afghan Airlines, Kabul, 1970 TMA, Beirut, 1970 Dominicana, Santo Domingo, 1970 Nigeria Airways, London, 1971 Somali Airlines, Mogadishu, 1974 DETA, Lourenço Marques, 1974 Royal Nepal Airlines, Kathmandu, 1974 TAAG, Luanda, 1974 Air Vietnam, Saigon, 1974 Cubana, Havana, 1974 SLM (Surinam Airways), Paramaribo, 1974 LAGE, Malabo, 1974 Faucett, Lima, 1974 Merpati Nusantara Airlines, Jakarta, 1974 Yemen Airways, Sanaa, 1974 Iraqi Airways, Baghdad, 1977 Air Djibouti, Djibouti, 1977 Bouraq Indonesia Airways, Jakarta, 1977 Lesotho Airways, Maseru, 1979 Thai Airways, Bangkok, 1979 Polynesian Airlines, Apia, 1979 Air Niger, Niamey, 1980 Bougair, Arawa, 1980 Air Sénégal-Sonatra, Dakar, 1980 Cook Islands Airways, Rarotonga, 1980 TAM - Transportes Aéreos Regionais, São Paulo, 1980 Votec, Rio de Janeiro, 1980 Air Bénin, Cotonou, 1982 Air Volta, Ouagadougou, 1982 Air Tungaru, Tarawa, 1982 Aeronica, Managua, 1984 TABA, Belém, 1988 Air Rwanda, Kigali, 1988 Shanghai Airlines, Shanghai, 1991 SATENA, Bogotá, 1993

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