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FROM:

Alan Paul

ED

Hong Kong Department

DATE:

19 March 1991

CC:

Mr Burns

Mr Short

Personnel Services Department

AUS TRAVEL BUDGET: CHEAP AIR FARES

1.

Mr Burns has shown me your minute to him of 13 March.

2. It is a pity that my absence on duty in Hong Kong

prevented you from speaking to me before drafting your

minute.

that:

Had you done so, I would have been able to tell you

a)

b)

Discount tickets to Hong Kong are always available, at prices of the order of magnitude quoted in my minute of 7 March (rather more in the high season; and rather less in the low season).

Discount tickets to Hong Kong have remarkably few

conditions attached. It is possible to leave the

return flight "open", giving the traveller complete

flexibility about the date on which he or she

returns.

c)

Once sold, there is no distinction between a ticket

acquired at a discount price and one acquired at the full price.

/3.

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