major international traffic, both would lose. As Mr Coe points out in his letter of 15 April to Mr Steel at the Treasury (attached), the BOAC assessment of potential financial loss is not yet available, and it would be impossible at this stage to estimate the long term loss in traffic rights negotiation terms to British aviation generally.
I do not think that A.M.T. Department can contribute much more at this stage. We can and should endorse the Board of Trade's use of the argument about traffic rights negotiations. From this point of view alone it seems to me that the U.K. will benefit in the long run by making a contribution (whether by loan or grant) to the airhort improvements. If we do not do this, and there is a legacy of ill-feeling, it will cause us endless trouble beside which our Bahamas xi problem will seem very small beer.
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21 April 1969
Gr Brown 21/4
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