BA estunate that
of about 600,000. Most of the additional traffic
would be passengers who would otherwise be unable
to afford to travel.
(iii) BA calculate that the scheme is in their commercial
interests. Although they would lose their rights
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to carry traffic between the Gulf, India and
Singapore on the one hand and Australia on the other,
the first two of these are of little significance
and BA believe that the loss of the third would be
considerably outweighed by the gains which they
would make from taking over, with Qantas, the
traffic carried by Singapore International Airways
(SIA) and other intermediate carriers between
London and Australia. The scheme is in keeping
with BA's deliberate policy of moving towards
end-to-end services without intermediate traffic
stops. Low point-to-point fares have been
introduced on other major traffic routes, eg
London-New York, London-Los Angeles, and the
proposed new low fares can be regarded as a logical progression. (The UK/Australia route in traffic
terms is about the same size as UK-Los Angeles
approximately 500,000 one-way passenger journeys
- and about half the size of UK-New York.)
Possible Disadvantages to the UK of the Australian Scheme
6 These might be as follows:
(i) Flights between Australia and the United Kingdom
would be reduced from 4 to about 15 each week
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