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4. THE EFFECTS ON MID-POINT COUNTRIES WERE REVIEWED AND THE AUSTRALIAN ASSESSMENT PROVED VERY SIMILAR TO OUR OWN. SINGAPORE ARE EXPECTED TO BE THE ONLY SUBSTANTIAL. LOSERS IN ASIA. THERE SEEMS LIKELY TO BE LITTLE IF ANY NET EFFECTS ON INDIA, INDONESIA AND THAILAND: WHILE MALAYSIA SEEMS LIKELY TO GAIN.
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5. HAMILTON, GENERAL MANAGER OF QANTAS (WHO WAS FORMERLY GENERAL MANAGER OF MAS AND HAS CONTINUING VERY CLOSE ASSOCIATION WITH SAW. HUAT LYE OF MAS AND ALSO HAS CLOSE PERSONAL RELATIONS WITH WIWEKO, THE TOP MAN IN GARUDA), REPORTED THAT SINGAPORE HAD APPROACHED INDONESIA ÄT AIRLINE LEVEL AND MALAYSIA AT POLITICAL LEVEL TO TRY AND PERSUADE THEM TO GANG UP AND BLOCK THE SCHEME BUT BOTH APPROACHES HAD BEEN REBUFFED, IT HAS ALSO BEEN REPORTED THAT AT THE END OF RECENT FURTHER UNSUCCESSFUL AIR SERVICE TALKS BETWEEN SINGAPORE AND MALAYSIA, SINGAPORE THREATENED THAT UNLESS MALAYSIA MADE FURTHER CONCESSIONS BY 1 NOVEMBER THEY WOULD CUT BACK MAS SERVICES. THIS FURTHER SIGN OF RIFT BETWEEN THE TWO STRENGTHENS THE VIEW THAT SINAGPORE WILL BE UNLIKELY TO PERSUADE THE MALAYSIANS TO GANG UP, IN THE CONTEXT OF THE LIKELY STRENGTH OF SINGAPORE'S REACTION, ACCORDING TO HAMILTON SIA IS ONLY FIRMLY COMMITTED TO TWO NEW B 747S (FOR ITS TRANS-PACIFIC SERVICES) AND ALL THE REST ARE CONDITIONAL ON RE-PURCHASE BY BOEING OF SIA'S OLD AIRCRAFT. THIS LINES UP WITH WHAT PHILLAY HIMSELF TOLD ROGERS DURING THEIR TALKS IN MAY.
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6. HAMILTON WENT ON TO SAY THAT IN INFORMAL DISCUSSIONS WITH THAI INTERNATIONAL THE LATTER HAD VERY CLEARLY INDICATED THAT THEY CONSIDERED SIXTH FREEDOMING WAS NOW QUOTE A LOST CAUSE UNQUOTE. BOTH TEAMS AGREED THAT THERE HAD BEEN A VERY SIGNIFICANT DECLINE IN THE THAI'S SIXTH FREEDOMING OF AUS-UK TRAFFIC SINCE OUR, DEAL WITH THEM LAST OCTOBER. QANTAS HAVE NOW DECIDED THAT THEY WILL, AT LEAST INITIALLY, ALLOW THAI INTERNATIONAL UNRECIPROCATED SERVICES TO AUSTRALIA AND THOUGH THEY THINK THERE WILL BE A NEED FOR ONLY TWO SERVICES A WEEK IN PLACE OF THE PRESENT THREE THE AUSTRALIANS ARE CONTEMPLATING COMPENSATING THEM BY GIVING THEM MELBOURNE AS AN ADDITIONAL POINT IN AUSTRALIA WHICH THE THAIS ARE VERY KEEN TO GET. WITH A NEW FARE STRUCTURE THAT WOULD BOTH
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