Now even if the AN terminals are worth more with planes flying than not, these facts remain :
1. QF will only use AN gates as a last resort, when they have plenty of space in both Mel & Syd of their own. QF will work their gates harder (sweat the assets) or put on bigger a/c before paying a competitor.
2. AN MkIII will only require small proportion of previous gate requirements a/c reduced size of the proposed new operation.
3. DJ will only use AN gates where they have to and where they can get a reasonable price relative to their budget operation.
So it may be nice for Fox and Lew to own the terminals but in reality utilizing all the available gates will be hard given on a worst case scenario QF ends up with 70 % market share, and other obvious client users are limited.
Finally, things must be really bad as Ansett are giving one seat free for each paid seat
paid in a promo to begin with Murdoch Press this week. If you can't get 2/3 load factors
at this time of the year with the existing artificially low level of fares then Ansett MkIII would appear to be really up against it.