Originally Posted by
hfly
He spoke of scale. Australia has less population than many US states, and has all of two viable long domestic routes, try apples to at least pears, rather than apples to watermelons. Its sort of like the quote, "So Singapore Airlines would like the right to fly passengers all around the US, and in return we would be able to fly their passengers all over Singapore???"
I'm not going to bother arguing any redundant points. I just made a correction of fact - the specific statement about Australian domestic travel is wrong.