There's a number of WA residents who love the nonstop service and as a way to use up FF points. Once it's gone, it'll be hard to get it back.
“All of the income we produce ... the revenue we produce for the Commonwealth government is keeping Australia alive, we shouldn’t be punished for that,” he said.
- Qantas is a commercial business, not a government department.
“We put in place $15 million worth of improvement at the terminal. [Qantas] need to show some understanding and perhaps some gratitude to what the state government has done.”
- unless there's a binding contract then Qantas will make commercial decisions in their best interests. Gratitude is not something that a publicly listed company can put in their report to shareholders.
The embattled carrier has flagged the possibility of moving its direct London flights to Darwin because of Western Australia’s ‘conservative’ border policies to the chagrin of state Premier Mark McGowan.
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