Excellent comment Green Goblin, sadly won't happen of course, but another point to consider is the use of civilian aircraft in protection of the country and its waters/ borders, it becomes increasingly difficult to do this when the airline is owned by Joe Bloggs, though my understanding is that the govt arrangement with QF is that its aircraft and crews can be seconded at any given moment in the case of War, Invasion, or acts of GOD, floods, fires etc, when a large nbr of civilians are at risk, eg: DRW etc. This will always have to be maintained as our Armed Forces are simply not large enough to do the job themselves, which in itself will always be in the govts favour to keep QF flying no matter what, unless the job is handed over to JQ (well it would be cheaper)!