Argus,
Get off your soap box.
You have no idea what the real fares being paid are, so before suggesting impropriety is being conducted by the Federal Government and Australia's largest airline no less, I suggest you take some time out to learn how the system works.
Furthermore, if you feel so strongly about the issue then I would suggest you can obtain the REAL amounts being paid by requesting it under FOI.
Should you then have some FACTS then perhaps that would be the time to go scalp hunting.
Personally I could not give a toss, I was merely pointing out a perhaps overlooked point which could help to explain the situation. I certainly was not looking for your banal insults.
On another note, I am otherwise impressed that someone of your obvious great intellect would stoop to such levels as to watch 'Yes Minister'.