Originally Posted by
Mwenenzi
But the people of Adelaide did not want to be friends with Qantas, as they chose to fly other carriers. ADL is just a small spoke at the end of CX hub. QF cannot/could not offer the same range of spokes from SIN or HKG compared to CX & SQ. Australia & QF being at the end of the line is a geographic reality. Some to many here seem to forget that.
In fairness the single Singapore flight was the only QF flight here and that arrived too late in SIN to go anywhere.
Maybe the bottom line is it is not possible for an 'end of the line' geographically country to have an international airline - which would be ironic because it was our location that gave QF along with Pan Am and KLM the opportunity open up intercontinental aviation.
If it were a level global playing field QF could have HKG as it's main hub rather than SYD but I don't think the Hong Kong authorities would be as co-operative as necessary.