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With Bain Capital appearing not to understand the Aussie market, there should be some rather large crumbs to be had for QantasLink and Alliance, particularly in the West Australian FIFO sector. I wonder if AQZ had not committed to working with Bain, could they have taken advantage of the fact that Bain did not want to service these FIFO routes, and then courted the various mines and resource companies themselves. Either way, as suggested by @SouthernLad, there are definitely potential opportunities for AQZ if they are patient, and have the aircraft at their disposal to service these FIFO routes. And it would seem they have been positioning themselves for such an eventuality, with their recent purchases. Management are doing a great job.