How would the breakeven costs figure if you take into account the financial benefit to Australia if the maintenance takes place at Avalon and the money stay INSIDE this country instead of being "exported" for inferior work done overseas? Engineers will pay tax on their wages, buy goods at the local stores (money stay here) and help keep local businesses open which pay tax on their earnings along with the staff they employ.
To compare it to the car industry, if Holden had received the Govt subsidy, then how much tax revenue would have been returned to the Govt coffers from the people at Holden and the others downstream, many of who shall lose their jobs. What happens when the AUD$ drops a few more cents against the greenback and Aussie manufacturing then becomes viable.
Apologies for the automobile comparison on an aviation site but it seems to me that we are going to lose potentially valuable manufacturing and maintenance skills and once they are gone will they ever come back?
Why is Joyce so desperate to destroy QANTAS? Is he being paid by any foreign airlines to do this? This seems to be the only logical reason why he is killing the Rat.