qantas and the fwa tribunal - the real story, page-46

Clearly some here are missing some very basic facts

Qantas to a large degree is still operating as if it was in a protected market unfortuantely it is not and the public who a choosing lower cost foriegn airlines over Qantas clearly don't want to move back to a protected market either.

Qantas is a premium priced airline offering crap services.

The company can not continue to operate in an open market where it is competing against airlines with lower operating costs and as good if not better service. If it tries to continue along this line it will go bust unless the government steps in and substabntial provides subsidies.

so as i see it there are three options available

1. Continue as they are and lose massive amount on international routes puting the whole company at risk of going broke, which would reuslt in every Qantas empployee losing their job

2. The government steps in and provides massive subsidies to Qantas a public company, not a path the governemtn should be going down.

3. Qantas operating costs are restructed including moving jobs off shore where possible and the airline remains viable.

The only other option is for Australian to move back to a very regulated airline market which would see travel cost skyrocket.