Qantas mainline:Where to from here ?

[GlobalMaster]

No doubt there are good reasons; as the Age article suggests, to:

• ‘revive BA Qantas tie up plans’

And the old chestnut of who gets ‘control,’ makes all mergers tough.

But, the Indoswiss Aviation statement by Jim Eckes:

• If I were Qantas, I wouldn't consider giving up control of my future to British Airways

Sounds like the the view of a ‘Star Lufthansa Groupie’ who doesn’t like the idea of the Union Jack again ruling the waves - sorry skies.

Given the history between Australian & the UK and between BA & Qantas, if any two full service airlines are going to be able to achieve engineering cost reductions via shared facilities and fleet, a QaBa has to have the best chance.

If the King is indeed dying, bring on the evolution, before the LCC revolution kills off the proud history of BA and Qantas and 'plane' travel becomes just like 'train' travel.