Mr. Theophile Komaclo

Director: North America

AIR AFRIQUE

1350 Avenue of the Americas

New York, New York 10019

October 15, 1999

Dear Mr. Komaclo,

I am forwarding a copy of this letter to David Lazik since he is familiar with this issue. It relates to the matter of an outstanding ticket that is owed to me by Air Afrique. I brought this up in a letter dated August 11, 1999 which I gave to you during your promotional trip to Montreal at about that time.

I would like to book reservations to depart from New York City to Accra on December 19, 1999, Sunday, on Air Afrique RK510, departing JFK at 22:00 hours - and arriving in Accra at 17:25 hrs on Monday December 20.

The return booking is for Thursday, January 13, 2000 on Air Afrique RK543, departing Accra at 09:20 hours and connecting in Dakar on Air Afrique Flight RK541 to New York.

My records indicate that I am still owed one Air Afrique ticket to West Africa. This ticket predates the exchange of tickets I received in December 1996. Those tickets were in exchange for the replacement of the photo slides that were lost. As you know, I used those tickets to execute our plan for the successful production of the Benin video. The ticket still owed to me was to be an exchange of trade for an original set of 80 images from Mali that I supplied to your office before the entire slide files were lost. This outstanding ticket would be most useful to me now in my current plans to go to Ghana in late December of this year. My return will not be until the middle of January since I will spend Christmas and the Millennium in Ghana.

I would like to review our relationship over the past 5 years.

• In April 1994 I received a ticket to attend the ATA Congress held in Accra that year. In exchange, I supplied 20 images of Ghana.



• In December 1994 I received two tickets (for myself and photographer Bruce McNeil) to attend the Panafest activities. In exchange, I supplied 40 additional images of Ghana plus 20 images of Panafest and another 20 large format photos from Bruce McNeil. Total 80.



• In the spring of 1995, I went to Benin on behalf of Top Tours and Safaris. I purchased a ticket from Air Afrique on the ID-50 rate. In exchange for this, I supplied 80 photographs of Benin.

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• In July 1995, I purchased two tickets at full fare - in conjunction with the trip I arranged for doctors to tour Ghana. Following this trip, I went to Mali and North Ghana for four weeks and shot photography of the major tourist areas. I traveled overland to Mali from Ghana and did this photography without any financial assistance or tickets from Air Afrique.



• I supplied 80 images of Mali to your office in late August 1995. This was to be in exchange for a future ticket. I have never received this ticket.

• In early October, 1995 I went to Cote d'Ivoire as part of a fam trip organized by Sankofa Tours from Cleveland. Air Afrique supplied a journalist ticket for me and in exchange, I gave 100 images of Cote d'Ivoire to your photo library.



• I did not attend the ATA Congresses in 1995 or 1996 - They were held in Kenya and Namibia.



• Sometime during 1996, the slide files at Air Afrique came up missing. At your request I agreed to replace all the images with identical or similar ones. We reached an agreement that I would receive four tickets. I also agreed to use those tickets to transport our video crew to Benin in December. We traveled to Benin in December 1996 and returned in January, 1997 after shooting the video. We delivered the finished video in March, 1997.



• My director - Tony Berube and I traveled to Benin in April 1997 to attend the ATA Congress. I received an Air Afrique ticket from ATA as part of their press allotment. Mr. Berube traveled to Ghana on Ghana Airways and overland to Benin.

This concludes my synopsis of our relationship to date. I have not traveled on Air Afrique since April 1997, although I have attended the ATA Congresses in Tanzania in 1998 and in Ghana in 1999. On both of these occasions I purchased tickets at full fare from airlines serving those events. I have also been a guest of SATOUR in 1997 and 1999, flying on SAA.

Over the past 5 years I have had 53 stories published about Africa in 12 different magazines. Air Afrique is mentioned in 16 of them.

I hope this clarifies our prior agreement and that I can have this ticket issued as soon as possible.

Thank you - and I look forward to seeing you soon. I hope we shall have the opportunity to discuss future projects.

Sincerely,

Bob Burch

cc: David Lazik