If you want to play the ‘worker’ card, I’m all for it
Perhaps but this is about your claim in regards to Australian jobs. Qantas has shown in the past that it it doesn’t care about its workers and I work with a QF department every single day and the staff absolutely despise the company and how they are treatedIf you want to play the ‘worker’ card, I’m all for it
I can guarantee you the small number of QF workers illegally sacked by the airline live a much better life than the workers QR have allegedly murdered or continue to work under atrocious military-style conditions and are banned from speaking out publicly and privately.
There's [gotta be one]I think the government should be aware of the significant consequences to Australia’s economic sovereignty if QR is granted this whopping 28 extra frequencies. No way should they be given this ridiculous number they are asking for. How many Australianjobs are at risk? How much $ will it take away from our Australian
I think people also need to realise that the small gains the Australian economy will make with allowing QR (eg more transport for our exports) will be crushingly outweighed by the consequences I have mentioned above.
“Increased tourism by allowing more QR flights” is another argument from the pro-QR camp but it’s such a furphy as there will be more Australians choosing to go overseas instead of domestic travel/tourism if there are additional QR flights, cancelling out any gain QR gives by bringing international tourists here, or even a net negative reduction in tourism in Australia. How many Australian
Airfares are down 13% since last year and will continue to go down. Australia has one of the most competitive aviation markets in the world.
It wasn’t in the national interest then, and I think it continues to not be in the national interest now.
Also, Qatar Airways have now confirmed that they will seek to buy Virgin Australia either in part or in full. I hence request that the moderators reopen the thread “Qatar Airways may buy Virgin Australia in full - what are the consequences?” so that the forum can discuss and debate these new developments. The majority of AFF dismissed it as ridiculous speculation, at the time, now it’s true.
TLDR:
Bad for our Australian-owned and Australian-based airline who employs a 85%> Australian workforce.
Bad for Australian tourism operators, and the Australian cities that depend on tourism.
Just like your pet QF base international flights from these same ports.
Since when did I say QR have a bad hard product? I never questioned their excellent onboard experience. You missed the point. I hope you have a great flight onboard QR.
Apart from the 7Eleven fuel price lock discount, they sounds like a good way to recoup a little of what we pay at the bowser.
Simple. Virgin Australia’s interests shouldn’t be considered by the government as it is almost 100% foreign owned, is a semi-budget narrowbody airline, doesn’t fly to any international destination outside of Oceania (apart from Bali and Tokyo) and most importantly, could be fully or partially owned by Qatar Airways in the future anyway.
The Gov't failed to give EVERYBODY a clear and definite explanation in rejecting QR take 1 application.
QF may be forced to cut its international services from Perth as it is already clear that Qatar is capacity dumping into Perth (why else are they using the A380 then?) and allowing them to fly even more seats into Perth will only inflame the unprecedented capacity dumping which will make their seats cheaper at the expense of QF flights. That’ll lead to many job losses for QF in the west, east and across the whole country. It’s not just Perth, obviously. There is a big, big difference between competition and large-scale capacity dumping paid for by unlimited oil cash funds.
Is this satire? QF10 exists for a reason and is a popular preferred choice of travellers between the UK and WA, and it’s operated by our locally-owned and based national carrier. They are also expanding into Europe with flights to FCO and CDG. I think Australian citizens should ideally be supporting an airline from their own country flying innovative and popular nonstop routes rather the foreign ME carriers flying traditional, boring hub and spoke routes which already exist plentifully in Australia.
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Simple - the demand is present and will have ZERO impact on the direct service QF offers to London.
NO satire - only the truth.
And from Perth, QF is also one stop from PER to many airports in the UK and Europe. Why are you suggesting that that’s not the case? Not sure what your point is.
Wow. It’s clearly satire at this point, isn’t it? Is flights to Paris, London, Rome, Auckland, Johannesburg and a multi billion dollar brand new PER mega terminal announced a few days ago, just to name a few, “very little in return”?
Not necessarily QF’s fault. They’ve been wanting to fly to Jakarta, Auckland and Jo’burg from PER for a long time. It’s the behaviour of Perth Airport that stopped this. I’m glad that they seem to have fixed it all and those flights will commence within the next year.
You tell me. Do you really think jobs will be generated with one additional QR service? Again, not sure if this is satire.
