Word: interflug
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...into the transit lounges at West German airports this year and request asylum. But the measures will not directly block those who fly to East Berlin and then make their way from there to the West. Iranians in Turkey report paying $1,000 for flights into East Berlin on Interflug, the East German airline, and those from South Asia pay even more to jet in on the Soviet carrier Aeroflot...
Still, tensions persist. The bitterest quarrel concerns the human tide of refugees that washes through the two Berlins. Drawn by advertisements for East Germany's Interflug airline and the Soviet Union's Aeroflot, the impoverished and the war weary from Africa and the Middle East have arrived in East Berlin in droves. Most of them then hop on the elevated railway that connects East Berlin's Friedrichstrasse station with West Berlin's Zoo station. Once over the border, the newcomers take advantage of a liberal provision in West German law that guarantees asylum to political refugees. In the first...
...bodies were recovered. Last June a turboprop Antonov-10 crashed near Kharkov in the Ukraine, killing 108, many of them children on their way to summer holiday camp. In addition to the three Aeroflot tragedies, 156 people died in the crash of a Soviet-manufactured Ilyushin-62, operated by Interflug, the East German airline, near East Berlin last August...
...Interflug's low fares also pose a problem. After studying the possibility of using Schönefeld, Swissair concluded that it could not compete there profitably. For the same reason, Austrian Airlines, which has a mutual landing agreement that permits it to operate out of Schönefeld, does not make use of the privilege. If East Germany really intends to attract Western airlines, it will have to raise Interflug's subsidized fares on competing routes, and that in turn might well make Schönefeld less attractive to travelers. But even the highly preliminary talks held...
...long operated in the shadow of West Berlin's bustling Tempelhof air terminal. All together, 5.5 million air passengers a year stream in and out of West Berlin compared to the 1.5 million who travel to or from East Berlin. Lately, travelers from West Berlin have discovered that Interflug, the East German flag carrier, offers some of the world's greatest fare bargains to those willing to take a bus through the city's dividing wall. Interflug charges only $110 for a round trip to Istanbul, $354 to Teheran and $152 to Beirut. And the flights...
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