Lets not forget the Kiwi's have a much more business friendly regulation suite to work with as well. Contrary to the skulls waffle and outright lies in his submission to the trussed up inquiry most Kiwi industry people seem to have little trouble understanding them, unlike the unadulterated piffle CASA serves up in Australia and has the hide to claim is being used as a guide by regulators overseas.
Qantas will be gone inside ten years and the Australian public will be back in the two airline days of $300 one way fares Syd to ML, or cheap fares on foreign registered carries operating on foreign AOC's. As much as Qantas business model is unsustainable the ever increasing cost of over regulation in the pursuit of the safety myth is equally unsustainable.
I believe the Air New Zealand profit adequately illustrates this.
Last edited by thorn bird; 26th Feb 2014 at 23:07.