Hi,

Talking about the IL62 and their operators just to add that Aeroflot in the 70's and 80's operated flights from SVO to Central and South America with stops in FRA and LIS. At one point there were at least 2 or 3 flights via LIS, to HAV, to MEX and to LIM all of them with IL62M's. Besides that Aeroflot also had a flight SVO to LIS with TU154B's. Regarding other "iron curtain" airline flights there was some pretty unique ones, for example TAROM flew a flight from Bucharest to Nouakchott in Mauritania via LIS with TU154's and sometimes they used the IL62 too. BALKAN had regular flights from Bourgas to move sailman's that had their fishing boats docked in LIS, they normally used the TU154 or the IL18's. From all the other airlines I also remember seeing CSA doing at one point regular flights from Prague to LIS operating the TU134A's and the IL62M's...the rest of them, Interflug, LOT and MALEV only came on charter flights from time to time...LOT I remember seeing IL18 and IL62, Interflug I saw here TU134A's and MALEV an IL18.
Regards