would see Kai Tak's capabilities stretched to the limit, the Finance Committee of the Legislative Council, in March 1973, approved the provision of $4 million for consultants to be appointed to undertake a long term planning study of Hong Kong's future air transport system.
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The Consultants were instructed to:
examine the adequacy of existing and planned air transport system facilities against a background of long-term forecasts of unconstrained demand for air services and related technological development;
identify all viable system development alternatives;
formulate alternative courses of action open to Government with respect to meeting or restraining growth in demand with predictions of social and economic costs and benefits to Hong Kong associated with each;
select and recommend an alternative programme for providing continuing air transport service to the public; and
develop a plan for the selected alternative with associated requirements, benefits, costs and schedules."
The Consultants recommended in the report they submitted in January 1975 entitled "Hong Kong Air Transport system Long Term Planning Investigation" that:
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The Government should reach an early decision, in principle, that Kai Tak cannot sustain the future demand for air services, that a potentially suitable alternative site for a replacement airport is available, and that a policy of providing services to meet all of the demand will be followed, within . . all reasonable bounds. To these ends, planning should be continued to develop a specific course of action to provide a replacement airport for Hong Kong.
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