If it were up to Queensland, the additional Qatar Airways flights into Australia, including Brisbane, “would be approved”, acting Premier Steven Miles said.
Queensland’s Labor government says more Qatar Airways flights would lower airfares, create jobs and boost tourism and should be approved, in a fresh outbreak of dissent over the Albanese government’s decision to restrict competition.
Speaking at an event with Qatar Airways’ local partner, Virgin Australia – also Queensland-based – to announce a tourism campaign with 300,000 cheap airfares, Mr Miles said he shared Flight Centre’s sentiment.“The Queensland government would like to see as many flights as possible because as we’ve outlined, those arriving passengers deliver economic activity here and that creates jobs here and prosperity,” he said. “The capacity would create supply, which drives down prices.
Opposition Leader Peter Dutton, yet another Queenslander, on Sunday said the outcome of blocking more Qatar Airways flights was “unconscionable”. Qantas says international airfares are only 10 per cent higher, adjusted for inflation. It does not strip out Europe.Virgin Australia chief executive Jayne Hrdlicka believes allowing the additional Qatar Airways flights would reduce the
Labor has offered a range of explanations for its decision, including human rights, carbon emissions, protecting well-paid secure jobs, Qantas buying new planes at a “significant cost”, and protecting Qantas’ profits.Ms Hrdlicka, ANZ boss Shayne ElliottTapping into widespread anger at Qantas, Greens frontbencher Senator Mehreen Faruqi at the weekend even called for Qantas to be nationalised.
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