Skippy to jump the lot

[Gingerbread]

According to Steve Creedy at the Australian: "An agreement signed in Brussels yesterday recognises the existence of a single European market and was lauded by the federal Government as a breakthrough in the push for complete liberalisation of air travel between Australia and the European Union."

Full article available here: http://www.theaustralian.news.com.au/story/0,25197,23625152-643,00.html

With open skies between Australia, Europe, the USA and Australia; it looks like the 50 B787-900's the ' big white rat' has on order will breathe new life into Australia's oldest airline.

[Keg]

Wow. I didn't see this but this puts Paris firmly back into the picture. Airport manager Paris has always maintained that he could sell a daily service into CDG but we couldn't get the numbers from the Frogs to do it. Greece was much the same- are they part of the EU?- so they may be looking good too. Of course J* may pick up the Greece and Rome flying.

[redsnail]

Yup, Greece is a part of the EU.

[Flyingblind]

Good idea of who,what and Where the F*** is this EU?

http://www.google.com.au/imgres?imgu...&ct=image&cd=2

[PINKHELIUM]

EU - European union... http://www.pprune.org/forums/images/smilies/smile.gif

[Taildragger67]

Flyingblind,

?????

Are you asking where the EU is? And whether it has legal capacity to make international agreements?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/European_Union

[Gingerbread]

Now that the EU knows where Australia is, even if some Pruners don’t know what EU Open Skies means - Skippy's lot in life is about to get much more interesting given that the Roo's Numbers Man has proclaimed:

"Qantas open to merger talk"

Wonder why APA sceptic Andrew Scission has recently lifted his holdings in Qantas?

Perhaps he's just averaging down the price of his holdings?

Na!