Originally Posted by
dragon man
It staggers me that the ACCC has not got on Qantas’s case for abuse of their near monopoly position in the domestic market. Push load factors up to the high nineties by cancelling flights and then obscene fares for the few remaining seats.
A great question.
A bit of soft corruption ensures regulators look the other way.
Wasn't it Rocket Rod Sims that granted Qantas an exemption to the Competition and Consumer Act 2001, allowing a tie up with Emirates to dominate travel to and from Australia?
Rocket rejected the premise for the application, namely that Qantas International was in "terminal decline" but gave them the exemption anyway...