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Yet another British airline, Laker Airways, is understood to have missed the boat because the CAA was not impressed by its Profit and Loss Account .
Could this have been the case with Cathay Pacific as well ?
It's time everyone who feels the need to open his mouth on this subject got ac- quainted with the facts, of which the chief one is that, based on well-documented past experience, it would be cloud-cuckoo logic to expect a British Authority, with a financial plum to hand out, to give it to an overseas British company at the expense of a domestic British company.
Another who should bone up on the facts, or whose public utterances suggest this, is Cathay Pacific's Deputy Chairman and Chief Executive, Mr Duncan Bluck, pictured by a daily newspaper recently with hands clasped, seemingly in prayer.
God's not on your side this time, Mr Bluck.
To talk of a last-minute change of heart by the CAA at the urgings of Hongkong's leaders is totally fatuous.
Angel Bluck and his supporters should have known that the odds against Cathay Pacific were heavily loaded from the start.
What these people should do is to stop weeping into their pink gins and get to work on the scandalous anomaly that denies Hongkong the right to make its own commercial decisions where its interests are at odds with those of Britain!
When this is done, Cathay Pacific can dance to its own tune.
Until then, Cathay Pacific and any other Hongkong company at odds with British inte- rests will have to like it or lump it'.
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The Minister for Trade, Mr John Nott, is not going to pressure the CAA to reverse its thumbs down to Cathay.
If he tried to do so, he would be screwed up hill and down dale by his party, which is not doing as well in recent by-elections as it feels it should be.
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