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US Airways Pushes for Repudiation of Flight Treaty with Britain.
Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News, October, 1998 by Kaplan, Peter
Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News
Oct. 23--The chairman of US Airways Group urged President Clinton yesterday to renounce the 21-year-old treaty that governs air traffic between the United States and Britain.
Scrapping the 1977 Bermuda II treaty is the only way to put pressure on the British government to negotiate an "open skies" agreement that would lift restrictions on air service between the two countries, Stephen M. Wolf said in a letter to the White House.
"Maybe this would give (U.S. officials) the ability to do what they keep espousing they want to do for American consumers," Mr. Wolf said in a follow-up meeting with reporters.
Mr. Wolf's suggestion comes at a time when U.S. negotiators are growing increasingly frustrated...
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