Now I know we are all mad.
Melbourne Airport's Chris Barlow has told ABC's Inside Business there is a lot of competition between the local airports to secure the much-talked-about airline.
"We're all in competition with each other," he said.
"I mean, I'm all the time trying to grab some traffic from Sydney and I'm sure in reverse that's what's happening as well.
"I'm sure any airline that wanted to start an operation in Australia, we here in Melbourne will be very keen to have them," he said
I suppose this must be one of the "benefits" of "privatisation".
We get to fight amongst ourselves, or at least see who will bend over quicker and how deep they will cop it, so that a foreign owned entity can come and play merry hell within our domestic airline sector in a way that would be verboten in their own country.
What price a few jobs eh.
And all this is benefiting who???
