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BA estunate that

of about 600,000. Most of the additional traffic

would be passengers who would otherwise be unable

to afford to travel.

(iii) BA calculate that the scheme is in their commercial

interests. Although they would lose their rights

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to carry traffic between the Gulf, India and

Singapore on the one hand and Australia on the other,

the first two of these are of little significance

and BA believe that the loss of the third would be

considerably outweighed by the gains which they

would make from taking over, with Qantas, the

traffic carried by Singapore International Airways

(SIA) and other intermediate carriers between

London and Australia. The scheme is in keeping

with BA's deliberate policy of moving towards

end-to-end services without intermediate traffic

stops. Low point-to-point fares have been

introduced on other major traffic routes, eg

London-New York, London-Los Angeles, and the

proposed new low fares can be regarded as a logical progression. (The UK/Australia route in traffic

terms is about the same size as UK-Los Angeles

approximately 500,000 one-way passenger journeys

- and about half the size of UK-New York.)

Possible Disadvantages to the UK of the Australian Scheme

6 These might be as follows:

(i) Flights between Australia and the United Kingdom

would be reduced from 4 to about 15 each week

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