Originally Posted by
bensyd
Phil Coorey in the AFR today (who is usually pretty reliable) says the government is going to let VA collapse, although it wants a two airline market and will assist in a new entrant.
That's a
complete and total misrepresentation of what Coorey wrote. As he states, the government's position is that
it's up to the state-owned entity shareholders, SQ and EK, to support VA if they wish. If they don't, the government won't step in, just as they won't step in to support QF either. The government won't be supporting either airline; they will be supporting a competitive domestic airline market, irrespective of which two major airlines that turns out to be