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J. It is of course possible that the Chinese authorities will refuse
to have the services treated as scheduled services. In that event you
should say that the UK authorities are not able to accept the proposed
conditions under which they should operate as charter services. In
particular the period of advance booking could not be less than 21 days
and substitution should be limited to not more than 10% of capacity on
any one flight with no substitution later than 5 days before the date
of flight. (These are the least restrictive ABC restrictions that we
presently have with any country) We would also wish to have an agreement
in principle from the Chinese authorities that UK carriers could operațe
charter flights between Hong Kong and points in the PRC subject to the
same conditions.
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