THE TRANSPOLAR ITINERAIRES BORROW FOR SCHEDULED FLIGHTS WILL BE
BENEFICIAL FOR RUSSIA








MOSCOW, March 1st.  (Corr. Ria " Novosti " Alexandre Ivachtchenko).
Thursday the airline americaine " Continental airlines " inaugurates a
scheduled flight on the transpolar itineraire " New York - Xianggang "
(Hong Kong).  It is what RIA " Novosti learned with the Public utility
from the civil aviation (GSGA) from the Russian ministry from
Transport.

According to the GSGA, another company americaine " Delta " will
accomplish Saturday a flight charter on another itineraire transpolar.
Several other airlines have depose requests for authorization of
shorter transpolar flights from America of North towards Asia of
South-east.

The GSGA estimates that the transpolar lines (via the North Pole)
crossing the Russian airspace should get has Russia a substantial
economic advantage.  In the ten years space the country could draw
from the control of air transport on these lines some 100 million
dollarsde complementary receipts.  The foreign ropeways are interesses
by these itineraires because they get a saving of time evaluates has
nearly three hours.  For the moment, in fact the airlines americaines
show more interessees but it is not excluded that their example is
followed by their counterparts of China, of Singapore, of Thailand and
other countries.