Originally Posted by Jetsbest
Good point Rammel
So Animalclub... If the economics have improved then Continental, American, Northwest, Air Canada (through its CP/Canadian Airlines history) and Air NZ will imminently return to the Aust/trans-Pac route to get back on the gravy-train won't they?
Not necessarilly - they may still obtain better aircraft utilisation and/or economics elsewhere.
Just a small point. We (Australian Government) appear to let anyone operate across the Tasman. To use the arguments put forward in this thread (and I do not disagree with the majority of posters) why did we allow foreign carriers operate over these routes? If left to Australian and NZ carriers would things improve or be as good for the PASSENGER as well as the ANZ airlines?