Qantas stopped servicing the Sydney-Shanghai route due to COVID-19 but is due to resume daily flights on Sunday.
Qantas has scrapped its plan to renew its long-running partnership with China Eastern less than a week before its flights to Shanghai resume – its second concession to the competition watchdog in a month.
Qantas stopped servicing Sydney-Shanghai during COVID-19 but is due to resume daily flights on Sunday. A Qantas spokesperson said on Tuesday that Qantas and China Eastern would no longer seek authorisation to coordinate. The code share arrangement between the two carriers will remain on all other routes between Australia and China that both airlines do not fly.It’s the second time Qantas has rescinded a plan in light of ACCC opposition since its newly minted boss Vanessa Hudson took over in September.
RBC analyst Owen Birrell wrote to clients in September, following the ACCC’s initial opposition to the China Eastern partnership, arguing that there was a risk other Qantas partnerships may be denied in the future.
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