There are no friends in business. The events of the past two weeks should serve as a painful reminder of this old axiom.
If memory serves, both Canberra and Coffs Harbour should have fallen to Hazelton's several years ago, under the terms of commercial agreements existing between Hazelton and Ansett at that time. Ansett instead pulled one of it's usual 'sleight of hand' moves by passing the work to Kendell and introducing a Kendell Sydney base. Ansett's rationale at the time was... 'we are not exiting the route merely passing it to another division of the Ansett Group'. Haa..Haa..!!
Hazelton's administrator needs a 'money pump' and SY-CB is a logical choice. Welcome to the post Ansett reality!! As I'm sure Qantas's Geoff Dixon would tell you "there are no friends in business'.
The Oracle!!