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RECEIVED IN ESTRY ( 4 MAY 1993

British Embassy Tokyo

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RECISTRY Action Tuker

30 April, 1993

(Fax: 0061-852-868-4679)

Martin Glass Esq

Air Services Negotiation Unit Economic Services Branch

Government Secretariat

Lower Albert Road

Hong Kong

Dear Malin

HONG KONG/JAPAN AIR SERVICES

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No. 1 Ichiban-cho

Chiyoda-ku

Tokyo 102

Telephone: 3965-5511

Telex: 22755 (a,b PRODROME J22755) Facsimile: (03) 5275-3164

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I had occasion to talk to Kai fium the Ministry of Transport's International Air Transport Division today. mentioned your interest in holding early talks on ASA separation and asked whether they had yet responded to your offer to Fujino to come to Tokyo for talks at the end of May. Kai confirmed that they had replied a week or so ago through diplomatic channels to say that their schedule for the next few months was rather tight but that they hoped to hold consultations within the year. Kai said that this effectively meant sometime after September. It may be that just their

willingness to look at dates within the year is of some encouragement to you but this does of course mean a minimum of 14 months will pass between the initial consultations last i f Please let us know July and the second round of talks. wish us to return quickly to the MOT to press for an earlier meeting.

you

2. Kai raised Dragonair's plans to serve regional points in Japan. He recalled agreement had been reached at the negotiations in November 1992 for Hong Kong airlines to serve an additional regional point in Japan and that Sendai had been chosen as this point. He was therefore confused to find that the people of Ishikawa Prefecture (in which Komatsu is located) were looking forward to Dragonair operating to Komatsu this year. As Dragonair had put back their original plan to serve Sendai from Spring 1993, he wondered if the

If so, this airline was now contemplating a change of points. would have implications for the forthcoming Exchange of Notoo (see below). I said that I was not aware that Dragonair had any plans to switch points. Both you and London had confirmed

with the ovistine texts and we were now

wailing for the MFA to propose a possible date for the EON. It was certainly true that ikele was intercst among Hong Kong

UK carriers airlines in serving Komatsu (and Niigata, too). were also interested in securing additional points in Japan, But this would not affect the current EON.

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