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between Australia and Singapore to encourage the growth in tourist ·
traue from Australia for stays of longer then the present one or
two days. It is fairly certain, however, that Singapore will be. seriously upset at the immediate loss which she will suffer.
MALAYSIA
It will not be
10 Malaysia will lose the ability legally to carry through traffic at the new low fare from Australia to Europe. Malaysian Airline System will however gain from custs in the SIA services to London, because SIA will be much less able to carry traffic from Malaysia to the UK over Singapore. MAS will also gain traffic from Qantas'· exclusțion from the Kuala Lumpur-London sector. necessary to cut the existing two services per week operated from London by MAS. The most serious difficulty is the risk that the Malaysians will see in our agreement with Australia an attempt to deny them the opportunity they are seeking for the expansion of MAS. At the recent ASA/Concorde talks in London, Mr, John Steele told the
sympathized with the wild for MAS to plan ahead Malaysians that he was prepared to examine sympathetically their
Further talks are likely to ambitions in this direction for MAS.
take place in October. The Malaysian reaction could be sharp, even though they will have no justification in air services terms.
Such
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a reaction might postpone still further Malaysian agreement to Concorde overflight of their territorial waters en route to Singapore. the other hand, their resentment may be instigated to some extent when they realise the benefits they can derive from the cuts affecting Singapore. The Australians may decide to withdraw Qantas from the Malaysia-Australia service altogether and leave it in the hands of
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THAILAND
11 Thailand, like Malaysia, will lose the ability to carry through traffic at the new low fare from Australia to Europe and will rain from the exclusion of Gantas from the Bangkok-London sector.
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