Originally Posted by
George Glass
Qantas tried competing on NZ domestic routes about 15 years ago. The resistance from parochial Kiwis to the big bad nasty Aussies was huge. It failed. Kiwis don’t really want competition. Plus its a market of less than 5 million people. Best just to leave the Kiwis to it.
Certainly not as bad as when Air New Zealand wanted to operate in Australia under the open skies agreement many years ago but was blocked due to lobbying from Qantas. Talk about resistance from the Aussies. Better just left to the Aussies.