Originally Posted by
AerialPerspective
No appeal can ignore the capital cost of the equipment. ...
For better or for worse, the respective cost bases - capital and operating - won't get much of a look in. The Court is not concerned with the commercial
bona fides of the outsourcing rather it will limit itself to determining whether
the fact that the ground handling function was heavily unionised formed a substantial and operative part of Qantas's reasoning in determining to outsource it.