Interesting article in yesterdays Australian related to the rise of Air New Zealand, seems like aviation there is booming.
We could perhaps blame a fiddling Irishman for the destruction of Qantas but it cant all be attributed to just bad management. All other facets of the industry this side of the ditch seem to be suffering as well.
We are told we cant compete with those pesky Arabs because their cost base is so low but just how much of the cost base in Australia is made up of regulatory burden?
From all I hear NZ has pretty good reg's, cost them a hell of a lot less as well. Its considerably cheaper to maintain the same aircraft under their reg's compared to Australia's and almost all other facets of regulatory compliance is way cheaper.
Is the growth there because they have sensible user friendly regulations?
Will be see a Kiwi invasion into Australia as the industry here is regulated out of business? I can see some interesting questions the good senators could ask the skull.
Last edited by thorn bird; 1st Mar 2013 at 23:48.