The competition authority the ACCC says the five biggest airports in Australia are failing their customers to an unprecedented degree and has called for increased infrastructure investment to overcome congestion and dissatisfaction with their performance. ABC News 24 has already blitzed the airports with live vox pops with travellers this morning, with apologists outnumbered about [...]
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Tiger Airways gives it away, begs ACCC mercy killing
Only a week away from D-day when the ACCC decides whether or not Virgin Australia can buy control over Tiger Airways, the airline has gone on sacrificial sale for $10 one way everywhere it flies, subject to all sort of fine print you must read on its website.
READ MOREACCC resets the clock on Virgin-Tiger deal
Australia’s competition authority the ACCC has restarted the countdown on the Virgin Australia-Tiger Australia deal, setting 24 April as decision day. It is also dealing with calls by Emirates and Qantas for what could be summarised as fairness and consistency in relation to approvals for multi airline marketing deals on the Australia-New Zealand market.
READ MOREXenophon letters to Qantas, ACCC over Emirates released
Independent Senator for South Australia, Nick Xenophon, has asked the Qantas Group CEO Alan Joyce and the chairman of the competition regulator, the ACCC, Rod Sims, to respond to or clarify a set of public interest concerns about the authorisartion of the Qantas-Emirates partnership.
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Some clues as to why the ACCC dismissed Qantas arguments
Historical oddity. The Qantas licensed engineers associated gave Qantas management a big tick for cost and labour efficiency when it argued against the Qantas-Emirates partnership.
READ MOREWho misled Minister Albanese over Qantas-Emirates?
Students of ministerial statements will be well aware that the busier the minister the more likely that a daft statement will be written for him or her and circulated by the messaging machines deployed by all political parties.
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ACCC didn’t give Qantas-Emirates deal a ringing endorsement
The ACCC has acted to improve competitive choice. It hasn’t done anything to stop Qantas imploding on the routes to Europe by giving away customers to Emirates.
READ MOREQantas-Emirates partnership approved, with Tasman conditions
So, why exactly did the ACCC let Qantas dump most of Australia off its London routes in favour of Emirates if it explicitly rejects the Qantas-is-failing-on-world routes hype?
READ MOREQantas-Emirates? T minus 5 days and counting
Today’s ACCC authorisation of broad ranging co-operation between Jetstar franchises in Asia, including the Jetstar Hong Kong venture that has yet to gets its own authorisation in the Special Administrative Region of China, might be the curtain raiser to final approval for the Qantas-Emirates business partnership due to begin this Sunday. Or it might not.
READ MOREQantas-Emirates? T minus 9 days and counting
It’s all gone very quiet in Qantas in relation to the critical final approval by the ACCC of the Qantas-Emirates business partnership, which has been chugging along under provisional approval to begin on 31 March.
READ MORETiger, dead or alive, poses burning questions about where air travel is headed
There is much uncertainty about where the low fare airline case is headed in Australia even though it is closing in on nine years since Jetstar started services as its first such carrier. Will the ACCC approve Virgin Australia taking control of Tiger? Does Virgin Australia hope it doesn’t? Might the ACCC approve it and [...]
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Virgin Tiger decision postponed until 14 March
The ACCC says it will not make a final decision on the proposal that Virgin Australia take a controlling 60% stake in Tiger Australia until the middle of March, and that the issue as to whether or not the low cost carrier would shut down its operations in the absence of approval will be ‘highly [...]
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Virgin Australia’s Skywest deal clears ACCC, but …
Some very pivotal deals for domestic air services in Australia are up for approval here and in Singapore, and much more so than in the case with Virgin Australia picking up a Western Australian but Singaporean controlled regional carrier in Skywest
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Is Qantas right about NZ? Its rivals might agree
In its last ditch attempt to persuade the ACCC to allow Qantas to reduce its capacity on the New Zealand routes by less than 4% a year under the partnership with Emirates the Australian partner holds out the possible creation of new (or revived) non-stop services such as Adelaide to Auckland as one of the [...]
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Xenophon finds chink in ACCC’s defence of Qantas-Emirates deal
The ACCC may have said too much during its process of assessing the Qantas-Emirates deal by raising the claimed unsustainable state of the Australian icon’s long haul operations.
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