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Qantas CEO Vanessa Hudson is experiencing a baptism of fire, as Alan Joyce goes lacking all over the Senate inquiry.
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The parlous state of rivals in Australia’s airline trade has been laid bare in the report by the Senate inquiry into the Albanese executive’s decision to shriek Qatar Airways a doubling of its 28 flights a week into Australia.
And as Greens Senator Penny Allman-Payne said in her welcome dissenting report, it’s no longer factual changes to allow better rivals that are vital to repair all the complications the sphere — and the limitless hundreds of thousands of oldsters that use it — are experiencing.
The committee believes the executive may peaceful immediately review the decision. It also said that airfare trace monitoring by the Australian Rivals and Individual Price (ACCC) — for which funding was lower by the executive in June — may peaceful be reinstated and that the rivals watchdog may peaceful launch an investigation into anti-competitive behaviour in the home aviation market.
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Michael Sainsbury
South-East Asia Correspondent @sainsburychina
Michael Sainsbury is a journalist based in Asia with extra than 20 years’ abilities writing about enterprise, enterprise politics and human rights across Australia and the Asia-Pacific.