TNAG-0777-FCO40-981-Involvement-of-Hong-Kong-in-air-services-agreements-1978 — Page 69

CONFIDENTIAL

To: HONG KONG

DRAFT TELEGRAM

RFI. BEIRUT, CANBERRA (FOR ROGERS)

(21) Your telno 233. UK/LEBANON AIR SERVICES

1. Points made in your paras 1,2 and 3 agreed.

We do not fully understand

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2. Your para.4 and reference to "objections under ICAO" in particular

not understood.

the

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The BA/TMA commercial agreement stems from CMU and such compensation

payments as it provides are not uncommon practice in Europe and

elsewhere. Payment is due to BA rather than to anybody else because the

who route to be operated is theirs and it is they stand to lopse.

We see no possibility of your receiving the compensation payments

and can only assume that the "facilities" to which you refer in the

ite

third

Kand sentence are those at/airport for which higher and hence

discriminatory changes cannot be levied on TMA.

Lear

3. Unless we have further objection from you by 7 March, therefore,

the

we propose offering/Lel

the

Lebanese approval for operation of a twice-

weekly 707 all-cargo service:-

(a) routed Beirut - Bombay - Bangkok Hong Kong - Taipei

Osaka

Tokyo and return;

(b) Hong Kong rights limited to 3rd and 4th cargo only between

Hong Kong and Beirut;

(c) Flight limitation of six tormes ;

the

(d) subject to conclusion of satisfactory BA/TMA commercial xxxt

agreement.

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Swice no CPA flight HKK/ beint

CPA with lose nothing toge I have

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{{(c) where

agreed to this tel, except 3(c) we should offer 4 tommas. +

to go to 6" bunes.

prepared

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