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but it will be for HMG to seek the necessary traffic rights
with the PRC. DAL have also applied to for permission to
operate scheduled services to the UK (London and
Manchester), the Netherlands and points in the USA.
Non-Scheduled Services (Charter Flights)
4.
Permission to Dragonair to operate a regular series
of charter services to London was refused by DCA Hong Kong
in February, on the grounds that DAL had failed to show
that there was a genuine demand that could not be met by the existing scheduled
scheduled carriers (CPA, British Airways and
British Caledonian).
publicly
stated Hong Kong policy.
This is in
accord with
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