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I’d hazard a guess it’ll open a lot earlier. I think the EK lounge opens at 4 so I’d assume the same.

BLR-SYD Forgot to take a photo on the way over. Prawn noodle salad was good, lamb not so good. Very heavy dish. Lamb was dry (which didn’t help). It was also initially described as the “veg paneer” when placed down which was quite the polar opposite. Skipped breakfast. Typical Qantas...

Isn’t that how discussion forums work?

At the end of the day, how many people really live in these places? Why are we even debating it? More people reside in a Pyrmont apartment block than many of these tinpot towns. If there’s a market, an airline will service it. If there’s not, frustratingly, the government will subsidize a...

I don’t believe there’s even a P-KIM But there are always folk who believe Australia is the be all and end all 🙄. Which may explain why we are in the position we are.

We literally have an airline that took money from the taxpayer to “survive” (during a time when certain people thought moving within your own state was a capital offense), used it to expand into an entirely new type of operation, named an aircraft after the minister who was largely responsible...

This was the issue with Rex. That we seem to be forgetting with all these tangents…. LKH and JS are nothing more than a pair of narcissists and bullies who treated their staff, customers and local governments with absolute contempt. There’s no surprise they’re showing their true colours now...

Joys of Qantas, sadly. They are an absolutely awful company.

If you were flying a decent airline, it would be fine. For QF, not enough.

With Rex gone, we might have a better shot at that! I’m unaware of any other airline in the country that has registered an aeroplane with the initials of the transport minister.

Correct. However this is morphing into the government for some reason having to fund “competition” so certain people can have lower fares. This is not indifferent to the bonza debacle. People whinged that “fares will go up” when bonza was selling well below cost price. The government already...

What’s the answer? I don’t think anyone is advocating for higher fares. People are, quite logically, stating that a failed foreign airline shouldn’t receive public funds for the single purpose of creating “competition” where there’s no market for it.

And they weren’t getting fleeced by Rex?

Oh yes, no issue with that at all. Although the ACCC has to be the biggest waste of taxpayers dollars themselves!

Not really. It’s not the governments job to put taxpayer money into a failed company so there can be “competition”. If the market warrants competition, competition will come. Assistance has been happening with these routes for years. I have no doubt the assistance will continue regardless of...

I don’t think Rex even serve 40 ports. If Rex fell over tomorrow, I don’t think any community that isn’t already receiving a government subsidized service would be “abandoned”. The SAABs won’t be scrapped. They’re already on the Australian register. They’ll be picked up by another AU or NZ...

I don’t think you understand how large companies work. I’ve outlined the issues above. Simply screaming “management!!!!” is not making a point. As I said, we have numerous other regional airlines that can take over these largely state government subsidised routes. QantasLink, flypelican, Link...

No. Culture.

Takes a lot to fix a culture that’s been bred over 20 years. There are also a lot of regulatory positions in airlines that just can’t be “replaced”. VA is a good example. Plenty of the same old faces still floating around. Rex is down to less than half of its fleet, it cannot retain staff and...

LKH. Remember his email to the doctor years ago? (Worth a google if you haven’t read it). The same narcissist who made new pilots sign a letter stating they’d “dedicate themselves” to the airline and accept conditions outside of their EBA. As I said above, losing this airline will be one of the...