Lufthansa to Begin Flights to Berlin

WEST BERLIN — West Germany’s Lufthansa airline, barred since World War II from flying to Berlin, will start flights to the capital of a united Germany next month, taking over routes from Pan Am Corp.

Deutsche Lufthansa AG announced Monday that it had reached agreement to begin scheduled flights from several West German cities to Tegel Airport in West Berlin on Oct. 28, using leased Pan Am Corp. aircraft.

Pan Am, struggling to turn around its loss-making airline, said it would receive $150 million in the deal.

The deal, backed by the U.S. and West German governments, will end one of the many Cold War anomalies imposed by the victorious Allies in Berlin. The United States, the Soviet Union, Britain and France had maintained the sole right to fly in Berlin’s airspace since 1945, closing potentially lucrative routes to the West German carrier.