Australia shuts Singapore Airlines out of US routes

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Rhysige

Tis interesting, I like QANTAS its the only airline that I cling to since the Ansett collapse.. Queensland and Northern Territory Arial Service... No wonder we wanna keep it aussie owned Razz

nopaniers

A merger between Qantas and Singapore? Oh no! That would be terrible. With all due respect to Qantas, flying on Singapore Airlines is a much better service. So I like the cap on ownership. Not for the same reason the government does though Smile

I'm not in favour of keeping Singapore off trans-Pacific routes. Flying out of Australia is prohibitively expensive (eg. Darwin to Bali costs more than flying pretty much anywhere in Europe from the UK)... and the reason is a lack of competition. If Singapore want to fly Australia to the US, they should be able to! I would fly with them.

Animal

This might be good news for Quantas / the Canadian economy, but the removal of competition is never good for consumers. Higher prices, lower service and there's not a thing you can do about it if it's the Government that's removing the competition.

In Europe, this would be treated as Anti-Competitive Behaviour by the EU and it wouldn't be allowed to happen.

fkmax

Ya i agree with you, the Australian Government should not have done that...once there is less competition the people will have less choice to pick the cheapest airline to fly.....