Topic: Why not revoke BA's 5th freedom ex-SIN?
A topic to make some conversation:
SQ wants 5th freedom rights to fly to the U.S. from the U.K. The U.S. government is o.k. with the idea but the U.K. government is against it (probably to protect the U.K. due of the LHR-U.S. quadropoly). What's there to stop the Singapore government exerting pressure on the U.K. by revoking BA's 5th freedom (mostly for flights to Australia - just SYD and more recently, MEL, these days?)
BA could possibly shift flights to affiliate QF but that would stop codesharing.