Originally Posted by
MiamiPrep
I'm surprised you Aussies put up with the non-competition. SQ wanted to fly SYD-LAX, but apparently QF successfully lobbied the OZ legislature last year to continue their near monopoly of this route. I think consumers would have benefited from the added service with more competitive pricing.
We just love overpriced air tickets, telephones, roads, cars.....
Originally Posted by
IMOA
UA have a few flights, my understanding is that AA have rights but don't exercise them, continental used to have flights as did alaska iirc. Problem is that the real money on that route is in business travel and the american airlines can't compete in terms of product, the biggest competition qantas has is air nz. To be honest to _really_ get some competition there would need not only a decent airline such as singapore flying transpac but there also would really need to be a *A airline flying domestically in aus.
CO still flies to Australia. Just not a very business route.
Not sure about NZ being the biggest competition to QF on the transpac route. NZ has traffic rights to fly from SYD to LAX direct but they chose not to do so.
Operating transpac is actually not that easy. Your AC will have lots of idle time so you need high load factors and lots of premium passengers. Even VA will not really start to offer low fares on this route.
Talking about SYD-LAX. Does anyone knows what Volare Airlines Flight 1 is doing in some booking systems 13th November 2008? Leaving SYD 21.45 arriving LAX 16.30. Operated on a 77W.
