Domestic airline Rex has fired another salvo at rival Qantas, accusing it of muscling in on regional flight paths to “punish” the smaller airline for launching capital city flights in competition with the larger airlines
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Last week the Australian Competition & Consumer Commission dismissed a complaint made by Rex towards Qantas’s entry into a number of “low passenger” routes. Sharp said the rule of thumb he operated under was that a flight path needed at least 130,000 annual passengers to financially sustain two competing airlines. The Melbourne to Albury route only hosted 22,000 annual passengers pre-COVID.Competition over these smaller flight paths could cause both airlines to bleed cash and eventually withdraw from the route, said Sharp.
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