Originally Posted by
1A_Please
Bain is very disciplined about how they manage their VA investment. They have resisted being rushed into making decisions about lounges, catering etc. They are not likely to deviate now and be distracted into saving ZL's jet operation. It suits them for ZL to leave the market which will allow fares to stabilise (upwards) once the domestic borders reopen.
Spot on, for all of Sharpie's carry on about Qantas, unsurprisingly he failed to grasp that he really wasn't competing with QF. If Rex were going to take market share, it was more likely going to come from VA. And VA seemed to be making all the right responses to anything that Rex threw up. Meanwhile, having raised AJ's ire, QF started squeezing Rex on its bread-and-butter regional routes.
There's no shortage of literature on the downsides of trying to fight wars on two fronts.
It was a bit like watching the Wagga Raiders Juniors going up against the Storm
and the Roosters.