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EUROPE
6 Current weekly services (each day) between European points
and Australia are as follows:
X
Qantas
European Carrier
Total
Amsterdam
2
2 (KIM)
4
Athens
4
0
4
Belgrade
1
2 (JAT)
3
Frankfurt
4
3 (Lufthansa)
7
London
10
10 (BA)
20
Vienna
1
0
1
Paris
1
3 (UTA/Air France)
4
Rome
3
3 (Alitalia)
6
7 The Australian criteria for deciding which of these services
should be maintained is based on the present level of traffic
and the likely amount of new traffic which would be generated
by lower air fares. The only points which fully satisfy these
criteria are Frankfurt and Rome. However the Australians have
not overlooked the domestic political significance of two
"marginal" markets: Athens and Belgrade because of Greek and
Jugoslav immigrants. Traffic to and from Belgrade could probably
for
our life
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justify one end-to-end service each per week and that to and
from Athens one by Qantas alone. Services between Australia
and the Netherlands are in the balance. It is possible that
the Australians might decide that the current and likely future
levels of end-to-end traffic do not justify the continuation of
end-to-end services. The Dutch have caught wind of this, and
have already stated that they do not think that curtailment of
services would be justified. The Australians are still
considering this problem. The Australians propose to discontinue
all services between Paris and Australia and between Austria
and Australia.