Originally Posted by
florin
QR had applied for additional flights to Australia but the government has declined to approve this step (pretty blatantly protecting Qantas.) This is an interesting move; it's a way for QR to circumvent that decision and operate additional flights to/from Oz under VA flight numbers (and QR code share, of course). 💡
For international flights who operates is important. Generally are country to country agreements on flights/seats/routes etc. And often rights for an airlines from our country matching airlines rights from their country (1:1). Many international fights have code share:- not that important. Are other international flight agreement types. For example the AU USA open skies agreement is not the norm.
Traffic rights are not the same as authority from aircraft regulators to safely operate commercial flights.For example VA1.0i took a long time to get USA regulator approval for its AU<---USA flights.