How bout we all stop pontificating, especially Gaunty, and sit back and watch what happens. Who gives a flog what happens at the end of the day. The fact of the matter is, there will be about three to five big alliances in the next five years, probably operating in a worldwide open skies agreement. So stop your anti Singaporean rubbish, coz there aint nothing you can do about it. If they start flying Australia to West Coast USA, so what, if they start flying domestic Oz, so what, if they don't do either, so what.
What I do find interesting is the bleating from Geoff Dixon about how unfair it would be to Qantas. When everything is going your way Geoff, your all smug, the slightest hint of an outside threat and you and the female slug off sider you have quickly pick up the phone and bleat to your mates John Howard, Max Moore-Wilton and John Andersen.