My Orchids. Oncidium. "Promises" Photo ET
Breaking
news: no additional landing rights for Cargolux in China. Maybe later.
The
official Communiqué before Minister Bausch's trip to China let me believe that
there would be finally a good chance for him to come back with additional
landing rights for CV, as a compensation for the lopsided Cargolux agreement.
This is what was said.
"À Pékin, le 13
janvier, le ministre rencontrera Xia Xinghua, vice-ministre de la CAAC
(Administration de l’aviation civile sous l’autorité du ministère des
Transports chinois), afin d’aborder le sujet des droits de trafic aérien
additionnels. En effet, une des nécessités pour développer les marchés de
croissance que sont la Chine, voire l’Asie en général, est de disposer des droits
de trafic adéquats."
Knowing
from experience, and looking at the past and the present players, I allowed
myself to be somewhat sceptical in a recent blog:
There was some progress I would say in Fire,
Aim, Ready: there will be last minute "negotiations " about
additional landing rights. But the signature of the agreement will take place
anyway the following day. Let me divulge a secret. There is no leverage in last
minute negotiations. Hopefully though, it will be compensated by good will.
I
scrutinized Xinhua in vain, I couldn't find evidence that Mr. Bausch had
defeated the Dragon. Worse, Luxemburger Wort quoted
him this way:
"Wenn die Partnerschaft
der Cargolux mit HNCA in Kraft getreten ist, hat Cargolux beste Aussichten auf
weitere Landerechte in China. Dies sei ihm nochmals versichtert worden, so
François Bausch in China."
Really!?
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