Airports and tourism operators slammed the government decision to disallow further Qatar slots, which will sustain high fares and benefit Qantas.
will hurt consumers and businesses, rubbishing suggestions that the state-backed airline would distort the market for carriers trying to restore international capacity.
, which he derided as “really just a smoke screen for quotas or limits to the number of flights allowed”. Qatar Airways, however, has been running at around 96 per cent capacity into the east coast, one source said, and was keen to expand its European routes. It had applied to add 28 flights: 21 into Sydney and seven into Melbourne. The clear beneficiary was Qantas, which stopped flying via the Middle East to Europe in 2018 and is yet to reinstate services via Dubai.
Another source said the Qatar request was for permanent landing rights, rather than to fill a temporary gap while other airlines rebuild services, which would have given the airline a sustained advantage in the Australian market.
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