Foreign airlines could soon fly domestic routes to and from Darwin under a L/NP federal government

[HS-TQE]

If the L/NP win the upcoming federal election of course.

Saying that, can't see much interest from foreign carriers. The only international carriers currently operating into DRW are AK/QZ and SQ. The president behind the AK/QZ group (Tony Fernandes) was on record mentioning that "You'd have to be drugs" to set up a Domestic LCC in Australia.

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[Saab34]

You'd have to be drugs" to set up a Domestic LCC in Australia.

However this would enable them to simply avoid all those startup costs and simply move aircraft between domestic ports with no other overheads aside the normal airport charges, wages etc. Certainly during peak periods Darwin is busy, some would be interested.

I don’t think it’s a wise move but it appears the coalition won’t be forming government so who cares.