Airlines Hungary

Two Czechoslovak teen-agers armed with shotguns and grenades hijacked a Hungarian airliner in Prague on Wednesday and flew with 15 hostages to Frankfurt, where they surrendered without incident, airport officials and police said. The Tupolev 154, a Soviet-made plane similar to a Boeing 727, landed at Frankfurt airport shortly after noon, and the boys, aged 15 and 16, gave themselves up 40 minutes later. No one was hurt.

Israel publicly protested Friday a decision by Hungary to cut off charter flights from Budapest for Soviet immigrants because of terrorist threats. Hungary's state airline, Malev, also asked the Soviet company Aeroflot to stop flying Soviet Jews to Hungary on the way to Israel. Israeli Foreign Minister Moshe Arens asked for clarifications of the moves. Some officials in the government of Prime Minister Yitzhak Shamir are suspicious that Hungary cut off the flights for diplomatic reasons.

Israel publicly protested Friday a decision by Hungary to cut off charter flights from Budapest for Soviet immigrants because of terrorist threats. Hungary's state airline, Malev, also asked the Soviet company Aeroflot to stop flying Soviet Jews to Hungary on the way to Israel. Israeli Foreign Minister Moshe Arens asked for clarifications of the moves. Some officials in the government of Prime Minister Yitzhak Shamir are suspicious that Hungary cut off the flights for diplomatic reasons.

Two Czechoslovak teen-agers armed with shotguns and grenades hijacked a Hungarian airliner in Prague on Wednesday and flew with 15 hostages to Frankfurt, where they surrendered without incident, airport officials and police said. The Tupolev 154, a Soviet-made plane similar to a Boeing 727, landed at Frankfurt airport shortly after noon, and the boys, aged 15 and 16, gave themselves up 40 minutes later. No one was hurt.

Service with a smile remains a scarce commodity in Eastern Europe, but the skies are getting a little friendlier for the droves of tourists and business people flying over the fading Iron Curtain. The state-run airlines of Hungary, Czechoslovakia and Poland are expanding to new Western destinations. They are replacing their aging, Soviet-built fleets with modern Boeings and Airbuses and retraining flight crews to grasp what to date has been an alien concept: The customer comes first.