Let’s hope Air NZ can use the spare capacity for Domestic Australia flights , better than an Asian carrier coming in .
Also hope the unions can work a deal for all to go part time so the redundancy is limited.
That will never happen with the current QF/ANZ codeshare in place.
Because there is already an Australia/New Zealand open skies agreement, making it very easy for the government to facilitate Air NZs entry to the Aussie domestic market.
Not a chance with the codeshare agreement in place. In this environment neither party will be wanting to jeopardise this arrangement.