The Australian Competition and Consumer Commission (the ACCC) has decided to grant, subject to condition, interim authorisation in respect of the applications for authorisation lodged by Qantas Airways Limited and Emirates on 7 September 2012.
Interim authorisation is granted on the condition that Qantas and Emirates do not engage in the conduct for which authorisation is sought in relation to services between Australia and New Zealand.
In relation to the trans-Tasman, the ACCC is concerned that Qantas and Emirates will have the ability and incentive to unilaterally reduce or limit growth in capacity (in order to raise airfares) on the four routes between Australia and New Zealand where they both operate services. These are Sydney-Auckland, Melbourne-Auckland, Brisbane-Auckland and Sydney-Christchurch. To address this concern, the ACCC is granting interim authorisation subject to a condition that the applicants do not engage in the conduct for which authorisation is sought in relation to services between Australia and New Zealand.
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That's a shame.
I would've liked to have flown on the A380 and also earn status credits.
I'm sure there is a decision on this ina few days/weeks?
The ACCC is concerned that, with the proposed conduct, Qantas and Emirates will have the ability and incentive to unilaterally reduce or limit growth in capacity (in order to raise airfares) on the four routes between Australia and New Zealand where they both operate air passenger and cargo transport services. These are Sydney-Auckland, Melbourne-Auckland, Brisbane-Auckland and Sydney-Christchurch. These routes accounted for around 65% of total trans-Tasman passenger capacity in the year to 30 June 2012.
The Competition and Consumer Act 2010 (Cth) allows the ACCC to grant authorisation subject to conditions. In this case, the ACCC has decided to impose conditions to address the competition concerns identified on the routes between Australia and New Zealand.
The conditions require the applicants to maintain at least their pre-alliance aggregated capacity on the four trans-Tasman routes of concern, subject to a review to consider whether increases in the minimum required capacity are warranted. Any obligation that the ACCC may place on the applicants to increase capacity on the four trans-Tasman routes is capped to not exceed trend (real) GDP growth in Australia. There is also provision for the applicants to seek variations of the capacity conditions in exceptional circumstances (such as force majeure events), or where there is a material change in market conditions or financial performance.
Any update on when QF will code share EK A380s across the Tasman?
Found this but no dates????
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Interesting,
I'm hoping that this is the case, then some FASA Status runs on EK from SYD-AKL will be in order,
Won't FASA for the trans-tasmin route not be possible as ASA'a are only for Qantas operated flights on their own metal?
May be wrong but can't you get asa fares as long as they are qf flight numbers?