El Al, the Israel national airline, was today granted freight and mail landing privileges in Germany by the civil aviation board of the Allied High Commission. This will permit El Al planes to pick up urgently needed reparations goods at Dusseldorf and other cities.
The Allied grant of rights will remain effective for one year after the occupation is formally ended under the terms of the “peace contracts” proposed for Germany by the Western Big Three. The board, in today’s decision, reserved the right for El Al to apply for passenger service rights at a later date. For the time being, El Al has shelved plans to make Dusseldorf a stop-over point on its passenger service to and from Paris and London.
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