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UK/Japan Air Services Agreement
To regulate air services between HK and Japan
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facilities were also agreed. programme of work leading to the third joint working session in May 1982 was confirmed.
(ii) A meeting to consider the Deep Bay
preliminary feasibility study report and the comments thereon of interested branches and departments has been arranged for 11 February, under CS's chairmanship. After this meeting, the further advice of AAB on the replace- ment airport question is to be sought before a final decision on whether or not to proceed with a detailed pro- gramme of Deep Bay studies is taken.
The talks in London at the end of October were inconclusive. At the second round held in Tokyo in the last week of January:
(a) agreement was reached on the start of a trans-Pacific service by CPA, subject to discussions on the commercial implications between CPA and JAL. To achieve this result, the UK side agreed not to press further for the time being for additional capacity to allow Laker Airways to operate trans-Pacific. HMG will now formally designate CPA for the HK/Tokyo/Vancouver/Seattle V.V. route. CPA may start their service in the late summer of 1982, but are more likely to do so in the spring of 1983; but
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it was not possible to obtain Japanese agreement to the combina- tion of Peking with points in Japan (for trunk route purposes),
To obtain a decision on whether Deep Bay warrants the under- taking of a programme of detailed studies in parallel with that of CLK.
To check, if necessary, that CPA are designated for the trans-Pacific route.
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