peuce said
Looks like Qantas is on their case
Looks like QF have no case
Qantas fails in bid to clip Virgin's wings
Matt O’Sullivan
March 21, 2012 - 12:49PM
The federal government has rebuffed Qantas’s demands for a ‘‘comprehensive public review’’ of Virgin Australia’s sweeping plans to lift the shackles off a foreign ownership cap on its domestic operations.
Qantas last week called on federal aviation authorities to scrutinise Virgin’s corporate split because it believed its rival’s international operations might end up running foul of the Air Navigation Act, which requires foreign ownership to be capped at 49 per cent.
But in a submission released today, the Department of Infrastructure and Transport has bluntly rejected Qantas’s demands and made clear it believes Virgin’s plans comply with the rules needed for it to retain rights to fly overseas routes as a designated Australian airline.
‘‘We do not believe Qantas’s suggestion of the need for a public inquiry is either necessary or appropriate in the context of this application [by Virgin],’’ the department said.
Pehaps the Qantas’s general counsel, is not as smart as the Virgin general counsel 