TNAG-2143-FCO40-3062-Hong-Kong-Port-and-Airport-Development-Strategy-(PADS)-1990 — Page 89

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questionable.

Indeed, if we are

prepared

to.

continue to put in

more and more

stringent restraints

traffic demand 88

to

reduce the excess air

suggested in case (c), we may

Kai Tak indefinitely. But

congested airport with highly

operations at a high level of charges

just as well keup

quite obviously a

restrictive

would not

Hong Kong

be

conducive to the well-being of the

economy, We will have much to lose by

maintaining an airport in such a state. The gist

of having a new airport is

should

have

outiicient

precisely that it

capacity to meet

unconstrained growth in demand for a considerable

length of time.

and

air

fares

unilaterally for

can

Furthermore, given that the operations of the air

service industry are bound by international

agreements, the extent to which airport charges

be adjusted upwards

the mere purpose of curtailing

growth in demand 10

rather limited. (In fact,

the possibility Of using the price mechanism to

regulate demand had also been explored in the Kai

Tak Consultancy Study. The conclusion was that

there were practical limits to the feasibility of

adopting such an approach.)

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