Is AU Transport Minister on QF payroll these days? First they rejected QR application for more traffic rights (despite the fact that during COVID QR was almost the only airline serving AU repatriating thousands of Oz citizens abandoned by their government back home) and now this...
Oh please! They didn't fly repat service as a charity. In fact I remember seeing some airfare horror stories. Added to that the invasive searches "on suspicion" of many Australian women in Doha has QR still on the nose with many. It's still a big deal with non FFers.