Originally Posted by
777Nine
Well it’s pretty simple. They dominate domestically and no one can get close to them. Virgin went bankrupt trying to compete and their current offering is paired back (which what it should have been) and they’re not exactly a direct competitor anymore. They’re somewhere between Jetstar and Qantas (which is where they should have always been IMO).
We haven’t the population to suffice more airlines which is why we find here we have these large companies that almost create a duopoly (thinks Coles & Woolworths).
Yeah Qantas’s service currently sucks, but they aren’t going to go bankrupt for it. It’s not really hard to run a company that doesn’t really have many competitors and off which don’t have the history or finances that Qantas does.
Agree. I think you mean 'support' more airlines. 'Suffice' doesn't really fit that sentence. But no matter what, regardless of competition, as a largely Australian owned company, I'd rather have a profitable Qantas than a dominant VA with that bearded clown showing up for good news but disappearing when there's a crisis.
Joyce will be gone soon enough, it's not like QF hasn't had a few bad CEOs in it's history and it's always recovered. Hopefully the next CEO will be more John Menadue than James Strong or Geoff Dixon.