Correct. It’s a business. It is not worth bailing out because it’s no more Australian than McDonalds by its own admission.
Would you then withdraw any assistance to Virgin for the same reason?
And then when we have seen off C-19, we would be reliant on foreign carriers to provide all airline services to the whole of Australia. How do you think that would work out in regional areas if the regional carriers were reliant on on-carraige agreements with overseas airlines with nothing other than commercial interests? What do you think the airfares would look like when foreign carriers are not constrained in any way, shape or form by the ACCC or anyone else?
You may not like Qantas' Sydney centric position but the alternative of no Australian national carriers is far worse.