See... they should have stuck with the very successful "Hotham Express" shuttles at night (!) run by QRA in it's early days... the only approved operators to fly night time RPT into Hotham!
...closed out of expansion negotiations with Hotham, by QF's threat of withdrawal (funny that now!) and their offer of direct flights to Sapporo/Japan out of Cairns... where the Hotham owners have interests...
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