Originally Posted by number_6
CO definitely still has traffic rights and could operate more flights to Oz anytime they wanted to ... for some reason they stick to the Guam-CNS puddle-jumper. They did fly DC-10s LAX-SYD (via Fiji and American Samoa) for many years, in the 80s.
CO also used to fly to MEL via AKL (and somewhere else between IAH and AKL, but not sure where) with there DC10. In the mid 90s it was often the cheapest option for AKL-MEL flights.