El Al and Air India are working out the final details of an agreement to introduce a direct air link between Israel and India in 1994.
Agreement between the two national airlines has already been reached on schedules: Each airline will operate two flights a week.
El Al officials are also completing the necessary security arrangements in India.
Air traffic between the two countries is currently reported to run at several thousand passengers a year, but travelers must take a circuitous route, via Copenhagen and Bangkok, with foreign airlines picking up a considerable share of the income.
In other news related to El Al, the American subsidiary of the Japanese Matsushita conglomerate has won a contract to supply on-board television and video systems for two aircraft ordered by El Al from Boeing.
Israel’s Transportation Ministry expressed satisfaction with the deal since Matsushita, as a condition for winning the contract, agreed to buy Israeli products worth 25 percent of the multimillion dollar contract for use in the equipment.
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