A ban on all services to Middle East airfields “considered operationally sub-standard” will be proposed by a delegation representing the British Airline Pilots Association at the forthcoming conference of the International Federation of Airline Pilots Associations (IFALPA) to be held here March 11-18. A resolution empowering its delegation to make the proposal was adopted by the BALPA central board today. A spokesman for the pilots’ group told the Jewish Telegraphic Agency that the resolution did not specify any Middle Eastern airfields because that was a matter for experts to determine. He said BALPA would have six delegates at the IFALPA conference out of a total of 200 and it would therefore depend on others whether or not to impose a flight ban on the Mideast. The Australian Airline Pilots Association said in Melbourne that it would be guided by the IFALPA conference on banning flights to the Mideast.
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