Doesn’t this comment sound odd coming from an operator of an
airport:
Perth Airport and the State needs to keep its focus firmly on developing new direct service routes to the growth areas of Asia,” “We will deliver the tourism sector and the economy a greater return by prioritising the development of new routes, as opposed to the, at best, marginal benefits of adding limited additional flights to existing routes on a seasonal basis.”
Surely developing routes and assessing their viability is the job of
airlines. Perth Airport manage a monopoly service for Western Australia, they shouldn’t be turning away new services when they can easily accomodate then.
It seem to me to be a gross abuse of market power to prioritise one airline over another.