By 1982, El Al Israel Airlines will have tripled in size and be complete ’round the world carrier, Mordechai Ben-Ari, El Al president, told a delegation of the Conference of Presidents of Major American Jewish Organizations at a luncheon here. The most important problem facing El Al today, Ben-Ari said, was obtaining landing rights in cities other than New York in the United States. This, he said, is an absolute necessity to accommodate passengers from outside of New York who wish to avoid the changing of planes and terminals at John F. Kennedy International Airport.
Ben-Ari is in the US to negotiate expanded landing rights for the Israeli airline in the US. He will try to convince Federal aviation officials to extend El Al’s landing rights from New York to Philadelphia, Boston, Chicago, Miami and Los Angeles. El Al has been seeking additional American landing rights for several years without success.
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