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in this direction for MAS Further talks are likely to take place
The Malaysian reaction could be sharp, even though
they will have no justification in air services terms.
reaction might postpone still further Malaysian agreement to
Concorde overflight of their territorial waters en route to
Singapore.
On the other hand, their resentment may be mitigated
to some extent when they realise the benefits they can derive from
the cuts affecting Singapore. The Australians may decide to
withdraw Qantas from the Malaysia-Australia service altogether
and leave it in the hands of MAS.
THAILAND
3 Thailand, like Malaysia, will lose the ability to carry through
traffic at the new low fare from Australia to Europe and will gain
from the exclusion of Qantas from the Bangkok-London sector.
We shall not need to cut their existing 3 services weekly between Bangkok and London (this is because they stop at Frankfurt and the Frankfurt/Bangkok sector accounts for a significant proportion
of their capacity). The Australians have not yet made up their
minds what they will do in respect of their arrangements with
the Thais. On balance we would not expect a seriously adverse
Thai reaction.
INDIA
4
A considerable volume of traffic is carried daily from London
to India (Bombay) on the UK-Australia service. BA are reasonably
confident that they would be able to make alternative arrangements
for this en route to Hong Kong or Singapore or by turn round
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