Sims rejects call for forensic Qantas audit
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Australian Competition and Consumer Commission chairman Rod Sims has dismissed calls to take a closer look at Qantas’s finances as it finalises its decision on the airline’s alliance with Emirates, saying there is not enough competitive detriment to warrant a more forensic examination.
Nick Xenophon Sims must seek satisfaction on Qantas alliance
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Rod Sims, chairman of the Australian Competition and Consumer Commission, may well be pondering the lyrics of Mick Jagger’s Satisfaction in the coming weeks as he grapples with the proposed Qantas/Emirates alliance
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Qantas-Emirates giveaway challenged by Senator Xenophon | Plane Talking
Senator Xenophon has entered the struggle between those who want to give Qantas away to Emirates, and those who want to flog it to private equity and plunder the good bits, with a bid to make the ACCC probe deeper into its internal finances. This isn’t going to end well for anyone.
A last minute effort by independent SA Senator, Nick Xenophon, to broaden the ACCC’s consideration of its provisional approval of the proposed Qantas-Emirates ‘partnership’ has been simultaneously suggested and rejected in today’s AFR.