INTERNATIONAL

EC Nations Approve Airline Agreement: The 12 European Community states adopted a deregulation package that lets airlines fly anywhere in the community as of 1993. Under the change, EC-based airlines will be able to fly domestic routes in a country other than the one in which they are based. The accord eliminates a longstanding rule under which airlines have been able to operate routes only between their own countries and other EC states. The agreement, reached at a meeting of EC transport ministers in Luxembourg, was hailed as a breakthrough in efforts to cut Europe’s high air fares by providing travelers with a bigger choice of carriers.