Gaunty, I don't know why you think it would shut the door if the third airline did start. All they would have to do is fill ( or at least 3/4 fill) an A320 3 or 4 times a day. Alot of that would be passengers that Star Alliance have to put on QF at the moment anyway. Then there's the on-carriage off the soon to be daily EK flights into PH. I think the main problem would be for QF to fill 8 A330s every day.