"ملف ١/٦ I الطيران - الخطوط الجوية الإمبراطورية" [و‎‎٤‎٤] (٤١٦/١٠٢)

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attract the many travellers now regularly move between these
two towns by motor ear* fly sole object was to attract this class
of traveller to the air mode of travel and so benefit the oompnay*
It was never my intention, nor can my letter I think be construed
that way, to get fares reduced between Basrah and Kuwait, with a
corresponding rise in fares as between Kuwait and Bahrain, as indeed
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has now resulted*
5 . If, as now seams the case, it was always the
company's intention to keep and fix £12* as the minimum fare between
Basrah and Bahrain, then clearly if the fare be reduced between
Basrah and Kuwait by £ 2*, that amount will have to be added cm to
the fare between Kuwait and Bahrain* This point of view, I am afra£
never struck either His ^xeellanoy the shaikh nor myself when making
our original representations*
7. The original fare of £0* as fixed for the Kuwait /
Bahrain section, was not only eminently satisfactory, but competed
favourably with the steamer fares between these two ports* There
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was no need to make any alteration in then at all*
B* Purely therefore in the interest of Imperial
Airways, Ltd*, and in order to attract the maximum amount of passen^*
traffic to the company, I am venturing once more to put my views
forward in the matter of fares, before these are irrevocably fixed*
9* Uy new and considered recommendations, and I am
voicing the views of His Excellency the Kuler also are as followss**
If possible the fares between Kuwait and Basrah
should be fixed £4* and those between Kuwait and Bahrain at £6*,
but if this is not practicable politics, then there should be no
change at all from the originally fixed fares, namely.
Kuwait / Basrah ** هذه التواريخ تقريبية ** هذه التواريخ تقريبية ** هذه التواريخ تقريبية £6*
Kuwait / Bahrain ••*••• £6*
10. It is I think quite certain that many more
passengers are likely to travel between Kuwait and Bahrain thaa
between Kuwai t and Basrah, throughout the year chiefly because
Bahrain is the centre of the Pearl ^rade* If therefore the fare
on the former route is raised to £8*, which is higher than the
1st class steamer fare, than there will no longer be any inducement