Oops, I've upset the masses!!
Funny about $400 airfares one way, so you reckon we don't have that now? Sure, we have u beaut JQ Avalon to Hammo Island for $69 during winter and around the same price will get you a Tiger ticket from Melbourne to the Sunshine Coast, but try jagging a decent cheap Brisbane Perth flight, or say Cairns to Mackay or frigging Sydney to Hobart - Extortion! And Qantas Link is one of the worst offenders. However be that as it may, Tiger/Virgin/Jetstar, could all disappear and life would go on, same ol same ol, but if QF disappeared it would leave a gap in the Australian heritage whether people liked it or not.
Again I am talking about history and heritage, not service or fair prices. Katter is trying to protect that.