Originally Posted by
schloufer
Agreed, but why does that foreign-owned decayed ZL deserve special treatment/consideration? Why can’t the government have some guts and do a subsidy deal with QantasLink for those routes and let the corpse die out of good?
That's a fair point. IF, someone else is prepared to operate with the subsidies and not behave like REX has then sure, let it die and replace it with someone who will take the subsidies and just operate the services, without playing games and trying to put a person on the Moon at the same time.
The general thrust of my answer was in response to REX being different. I was just pointing out that in that aspect, they are. I have no particular preference for putting a ventilator on something that is not worth saving, if the regions can otherwise be looked after.