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1 CLARIFIED TO GREY THAT APPLICATIONS FOR EXTRA SCHEDULED SERVICES SHOULD STRICTLY BE MADE THROUGH THE HIGH COMMISSION TO LONDON. SINCE LONDON. WOULD NATURALLY NEED HONG KONG'S COMMENTS ON SUCH APPLICATIONS IT WAS NOT UNUSUAL FOR THEM TO BE MADE TO
DCA HONG KONG WHO WOULD THEN HIMSELF CONSULT WITH LONDON SINCE HIS OWN JURISDICTION COVERED NON-SCHEDULED SERVICES ONLY. IN THIS CONTEXT I POINTED OUT TO GREY THAT THOUGH AIRLINES AND AERONAUTICAL AUTHORITIES WHO HAD LONG EXPERIENCE OF DEALING WITH
EACH OTHER DID SOMETIMES CUT PROCEDURAL CORNERS, IT WAS INEVITABLE THAT IN A FIRST CASE SUCH AS THE PRESENT ONE THE AUTHORITIES CONCERNED WOULD HAVE TO TAKE CARE TO ENSURE THAT
THE CORRECT PROCEDURES WERE OBSERVED AND NO SUBSEQUENTLY EMBARRASSING PRECEDENTS CREATED. I ALSO TOLD HIM THAT I HAD SIDCUSSED THIS CASE IN DETAILS WITH ACTING DCA, PNG (WHO THOUGHT
OUR ACTIONS PRECISELY THOSE WHICH HE WOULD HAVE TAKEN IN THE PARALLEL CASE) AND WITH THE EDITOR OF THE POST COIRIER NEWSPAPER
IN PORT MORESBY. PERHAPS I SHOULD ADD THAT GREY ATTEMPTED TO ARGUE
THAT THE PASSENGERS BOCKED ON HIS EXTRA SERVICES DID HAVE A GROUP
AFFINITY (BEING ALL PNG CIVIL SERVANTS) UNTIL I MENTIONED THAT I MYSELF (WHO HAD RUNG UP AND BEEN OFFERED ONE SUCH SEAT IN PORT MORESBY LAST WEEK) WAS EMPLOYED BY HMG.
7. I DO NOT KNOW WHAT ACTION GREY WILL NOW TAKE BUT, THOUGH HE INITIALLY SPOKE OF FLYING HIS BOOKED PASSENGERS TO HONG KONG BY SOME OTHER MEANS (PRESUMABLY THROUGH MANILA IN COOPERATION WITH
PAL), MY IMPRESSION IS THAT HE WILL IN FACT SEEK SOME COLLABORATIVE
SOLUTION WITH CPA. HE DID, HOWEVER, EXPLAIN THAT HE WAS IN DIFFICULTIES OVER SCHEDULES WITH HIS SINGLE BOEING 707 BY REASON
OF COMMITMENTS INTWO WHICH HE HAD ALREADY ENTERED (THOUCH THE CONSEQUENT DIFFICULTIES ARE THUS SELF-CREATED) TO CARRY SCHOOL CHILDREN BETWEEN PROT MORESBY AND SYDNEY. AS A RESULT, HE SPOKE OF SOLVING HIS PROBLEM BY FLYING HIS AIRCRAFT WITH PASSENGERS UP TO HONG KONG AND THEN (INSTEAD OF MAKING ANG'S USUAL LAYOVER) FLYING DIRECTLY BACK EMPTY TO PORT MORESBY. ONE
DAY LATER HE WOULD THEN FLY EMPTY TO HONG KONG TO PICK UP
PASSENGERS FOR THE FLIGHT BACK TO PORT MORESBY, I COMMENTED THAT
! SIMPLY DID NOT KNOW WHETHER SUCH A COMBINATION OF TRAFFIC FLIGHTS
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