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AS EARLY AS APRIL) AND DO NOT THINK IT REASONABLE THAT SO EARLY AN APPLICATION SHOULD NOT BE CLEARED. FURTHER ANG REPRESENTATIVES ALLEGE THAT THEY WERE UNAWARE OF CPA OPERATIONS TO PORT MORESBY UNTIL SEPTEMBER (SO THAT IT WAS THEREFORE NOT UNREASONABLE THAT THEY WHOULD HAVE REQUESTED EXTRA ANG SERVICES ON PRECISELY THE DAYS WHEN CPA OPERATES), BUT APPEAR TO HAVE FORGOTTEN THAT I SPOKE TO THEM (AND INDEED TO THE PNG GOVERNMENT)
DURING THE FIRST WEEK OF MAY ABOUT CPA OPERATIONS TO PORT MORESBY IN THE LATE AUTUMN. IT WAS IMPOSSIBLE TO SPECIFY THE PRECISE DATE AND TIME OF THE CPA OPERATIONS DURING MY MAY VISIT BUT CPA FORMALLY
GAVE THE PNG GOVERNMENT THAT INFORMATION ON 22 JUNE.
4. SUGGESTED TO DCA HONG KONG, THAT IF ANG HAD BOOKED MORE PASSENGERS THAN COULD BE ACCOMMODATED ON THEIR AND CPA'S SCHEDULED
SERVICES, THERE WOULD BE A CASE FOR ONE OR OTHER AIRLINE TO MOUNT AN EXTRA SCHEDULED SERVICE: AND IT SEEMED WOT UNREASONABLE
TO ME THAT SUCH AN ADDITIONAL SERVICE BE OPERATED BY ANG. DCA AGREED THAT IF ANG CANE BACK WITH AN APPLICATION FOR EXTRA
SCHEDULED SERVICES THEN (PROVIDED THE CPA BOOKINGS DEMONSTRATED THE CASE FOR AN EXTRA SCHEDULED SERVICE BY ONE OR OTHER AIRLINE) HE WOULD BE PREPARED TO RECOMMEND IN THAT SENSE TO LONDON. HOWEVER AS HE UNDERSTOOD THE PRESENT CPA BOOKING SITUATION, IT SEEMED UNLIKELY THAT A CASE FOR SUCH A RECOMMENDATION COULD BE MADE. HE
NEVERTHELESS REMAINED PREPARED TO CONSIDER MAKING SUCH A RECOMMENDATION TO LONDON IF ANG MADE A VIABLE CASE.
5. AFTER SPEAKING TO DCA HONG KONG I RECEIVED A TELEPHONE CALL FROM BRIAN GREY IN PORT MORESBY WHO WAS ALREADY AWARE THAT DCA
HONG KONG HAD REFUSED HIS CHARTER APPLICATIONS. HE WAS INITIALLY PRETTY AGGRESSIVE AND OPENLY HINTED AT QUOTE MAKING A STINK IN THE NEWSPAPERS UNQUOTE BUT COOLED DOWN CONSIDERABLY WHEN HE REALISED THAT HIS AIRLINE WAS AT FAULT IN ITS MANNER OF APPLICATION: THAT WE WERE NOT BOUND TO HANDLE HIS APPLICATIONS WITH THE SAME SPEED AS HE ALLEGED HE RECEIVED FROM AUSTRALIA: THAT I HAD SPOKEN TO ANG ABOUT CPA AUTUMN SERVICES AS EARLY AS 2 MAY AND THAT IT WAS INDEED UNREASONABLE FOR ANG TO EXPECT TO MOUNT (AND TO ADVERTISE THE MOUNTINE) OF EXTRA SCHEDULED SERVICES ON PRECISELY THE DAYS WHEN CPA'S OWN SERVICES (NATURALLY LIGHTLY LOADED IN THEIR FIRST FEW MONTHS OF OPERATION) WERE SCHEDULED TO OPERATE.
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