El Al, Israel national airlines, will inaugurate a regular weekly Tel Aviv-Rome Cologne flight service, it was announced here today. The new service will begin February 22.
(In New York, the El Al today announced that its Bristol Britannia passenger plane has broken the record in trans-Atlantic flights both westbound and eastbound. Last night it flew from London to N. Y. in 10 hours and 19 minutes, which is better than its previous record.)
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