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“Up until now, the travel policy of most Commonwealth departments has been to basically write Qantas an open cheque. Clearly taxpayers expect the Federal Government to take advantage of the same sort of cost savings that true competition is bringing to the private sector.
It’s really up to the Government now to decide if they truly support competition, and if they do, we will certainly add more flights to Canberra”, Brett Godfrey promised.
Why does DJ continue to use "for the good of the Aust. public" as an excuse to further its network and hence profits.
Mr Godfrey, Qantas already has competition on this route in the form of REX. The CBR - SYD shuttle has been traditionally (Kendell) one of their strongest routes. REX offers more flights than just 2 with a level of service at least matching if not exceeding DJ.