AIRLINES IN SOUTHEAST ASIA
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Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST):
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RIPPUB
Original Classification:
C
Document Page Count:
10
Document Creation Date:
December 9, 2016
Document Release Date:
October 28, 1999
Sequence Number:
8
Case Number:
Publication Date:
May 16, 1950
Content Type:
MEMO
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11 May 1950
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MEMORANDUM FOR: D/Pub, ORE
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SUBJECT Request for Information re
Airlines in South East Asia
REFERENCE : Our Case
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1. It is requested that this office be furnished the
following information relative to foreign-owned or financed
airlines in Burma, Thailand, Indo-China, Hong Kong, Indonesia,
and Malaya:
a. Government regulations pertaining to the
organization of subject airlines.
b. Reports of any such airlines now operating.
c. An estimate of the degree of resistance to
the formation of such airlines in these countries*
onversation held 10 May between
3. Receipt of this information by 19 May will be
greatly appreciated.
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23 May
g data are submitted in response to your .roqusstt
option, airlines based in Burma, Thailand,. Indo China,
udonesia and Malaya are required to be substantially owned
and effectively controlled either by the Qo erxeaeente or by nationals
of those countries. However, foreign equipment and technical skills
are extensively saaployad by these lines. International service by
foreign carriers is permitted, generally under bilateral air agreements
granting reciprocal rights?
ted below are the airlines of the Southeast Asian countries,
with an indication of the financiam
Won, of xrim Airways Rangoon, Bums. 100 percent
owneea o urma Airways is the chosen jovernment Air instruaaaeut,
but several foreign airlines have been chartered recently by the govern-
because of the usability of Union of Burma to furnish the required
These arcs Indonesian Airways, Cathay Pacific,, Trans Asiatic
4 Airways.
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aining 8 percent Interest now held by an
$isneae Sienese Airways Bldg., d Lon Luang Rd., Bangkok,
15 percen govern cent-caned.
Trans Asiatic Airlines (!`AL 26 percent government?o
aanale, 39 percent $'AL Philippines. The That acvarrannv
trot of TAA in the near future and consolidate all
n the framework of Siamese Airwaays.
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