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[Water Wings]

Freedom Air totally illegal but NZ got away with it.

And yet they were never deemed to have breached the Commerce Act.

Protecting market share versus predatory pricing......hell of a grey area and there's a reason case law is so limited on it. What limited case law does exist, the Privy Council were quite clear that an established player is within their rights to compete aggressively against new entrants to a market - even selling below cost is not necessarily viewed as being illegal.

[waren9]

repeating yourself is not elaborating bnea320.

sounds to me like you've been saying it to yourself for long enough now you cant see any other way.

anyway, sorry kra has run out of cash. atleast they're making the changes in good time, and great news most everyone is keeping their job.

[BNEA320]

you cannot use your market power to run others out of business. Catch 22, is the others need to take the legal action 1st in most juristictions & lawyers cost money, big money in most cases. They always want to milk a case for as long as they can, so unless "others" have deep pockets, very hard to take on an "elephant" who also has govt support. Dodgy as hell.

[waren9]

so, you disagree with the privy council?

[Aerozepplin]

Freedom Air totally illegal

And also totally unrelated to the current failed business. "At least he had a go" doesn't mean much when everyone could see it was doomed to begin with. DN-QN as a flagship route with one non-RNP aircraft was a pretty big warning sign.


Edit: With that said, agree very much with waren9 that it's really good that it wasn't sudden, and that there's some options for continued work. So good on whoever managed to avoid a disaster.