At the same time Air NZ ( a Star Alliance partner) has decided not to renew its handling contract with Singapore Airlines ( a fellow Star Alliance partner also).
Talking to the Air NZ manager they are actually losing money doing their work and reackons its costing them $5 million more than the contract is worth.
Dont ask me for the specifics but they were quite pleased to hand the contract over to the Menzies group.
Besides, Singapore Airlines apparently are not great or expedient payers either.
I dont really think that QF is too perturbed by these underhanded Singaporeans that always have their own agenda.
Sure, they want to fly through Oz to the US but at the same time when QF wanted more services through Singapore to Paris they refuse.
I hope they get their just deserts when the hub busting aircraft will be able to bypass Singapore altogether.
Lets see how they feel then, but they'll just buy a chunk of Qantas shares anyhow.