Gnadenburg
Boeing Belly
You poor sad bitter b@#$%tards - get over it - anyone who has a memory more than 10 yrears long knows that the entire AN thing goes back to Paul Keating and the Aussie government, who, on the instructions of QF, renegged on the open skies deal - end of argument.
When QF last had a hand in ANZ they forced the sale of the FK27s with a bunch of ANZ pilots going down the drain, closely followed by Safeair being closed with the same result.
Now the red arsed vulture is poised to do it all again - we don't need them, we don't want them and I hope the commerce regulators realise what a crock this deal will be for the travelling public on both sides of the ditch.
Kaptin M - nice post - sums things up well though I disagree with the scheduling comments - as an ATCO I know when QF launches out of NZ for OZ in the morning and there's nothing to choose betwen them and ANZ - the times are ****ty for all of them - if you want a lie in and are feeling brave fly on one of the asian carriers!!