avoid Indonesian airspace and the Indonesian FIR (Flight Information Region) by flying direct from eg Bombay/ Colombo to Perth, but this would not be the preferred routeing for all their services and would incur extra costs. The Indonesian attitude would then be crucial.
INDIA
5 A considerable volume of traffic is carried daily from London to India (Bombay) on the UK/Australia service. BA are reasonably. confident that they would be able to make alternative arrangements for this en route to Hong Kong or Singapore or by turn round services (London-Bombay-London). We would not want to cut Air India's reciprocal services with the UK. India would keep her fifth freedom rights between London and New York but we would give up UK fifth
To this extent freedom rights between India and Australia. India would gain vis a vis the UK under the new arrangement. On the other hand the Australians might find it more difficult to satisfy the Indians. Admittedly there is little true origin and destination traffic between India and Australia; and the Australians might be prepared to allow Air India to serve the route alone. But the new arrangement would involve a substantial cut in frequency on the India/Australia Sector (from 16 to one services a week) - although this would of course remove all competition for Air India. There is a slight risk that the Indians would retaliate against Australia, eg by denying Qantas the right to make technical stops on the sub-continent. Australia is considering ways of making such cuts more palatable by eg helping to encourage the development of Australian tourism in India; this would more than offset the loss of what little stop-over traffic there presently is. But they have not yet worked out how best to achieve this.
EUROPE
6
Current weekly services (each way) between European points and Australia are as follows:
Gantas
European Carrier
Total
Amsterdam
2
2 (KLM)
Athens
О
Belgrade
1
2 (JAT)
Frankfurt
4
3 (Lufthansa)
Vienna
1
О
Paris
1
1 (UTA/Air France)
Rome
3
3 (Alitalia)
44 mara O
3
?
1
2
6
London
10
10 (BA)
20
7 The Australian criteria for deciding which of these services should be maintained is based on the present level
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