you are sometimes fond of your sarcasm, so that makes a little difficult to agree with you, even when you may have plenty of good arguments.
As for CX not wanting competition in their home turf---they are not alone. Just consider the farces that LH and AF/KL in their home bases are putting up to avoid competition from the likes of EK, QR ,EY and TK (aka "the Bosphorus State Airline" according to some LH gonzo ), including repeated calls to EU antitrust to block these new entrants engulfing in their carefully partitioned continental duopoly.