I'm not a fan of foreign restrictions on QF. BUT. I put it to you that if everyone in Australia was as proud of Qantas as they were 20 years ago (because it was 'the best') then all a Menadue would have to do is ask the market for cash and it would have been there on very favourable terms.
That is the tragedy - QF is not 'the best' and that, my friends, is the entire problem. And whose fault is that?
Was it the fault of government of 15 years ago that the most incompetent, thieving group of pirates and charletans would get their hands on THE most famous national icon the country has produced? No one could foresee that anyone would deliberately act against the interests of something so cherished.