Are Captain Gidday finally someone finally has got it 110% correct. The rights the middle eastern carriers have to Australia were all based upon we will bring you 100,000s of tourists. Yea sure. The $aus is so strong that the traffic is all Aussies outbound. Only when 1000s more of Australian jobs are lost will the politicians realise that they were sold a crock. The Canadians have seen what Emirates have done here and will only allow them token services so they wont destroy Air Canada.