El Al-Israel National Airlines has ordered a fourth Bristol Britannia passenger plane to add to the three with which it has smashed and resmashed international passenger transatlantic flight records in the six months they have been in operation, it was announced here today by M. Turel, El Al representative for the United Kingdom. Meanwhile, to cover its increase in passenger traffic, El Al has leased a Britannia from the manufacturers.
During the first half of this year, Mr. Turel said, passenger traffic increased 100 percent over the figure for the first six months of 1957. Transatlantic travel alone tripled. At a press conference here today, Peter Masefield, managing director of Bristol Aircraft, the manufacturers, hailed El Al’s “magnificent record. “
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