Pity it's protected by a paywall. Can you give us some idea what the article is about?
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Strange - no paywall when I read the article.
http://www.wsj.com/articles/american...ack-1480371091
Yes, as W69 wrote, US DOT rejected Qantas and AA proposal to have a deeper and closer alliance filed in July last year and Qantas has decided to drop the proposal altogether instead of appealing.
I recall Air NZ sp dropping on the news last year so this is positive for Air NZ.
Paywalls on both journals (wsj and Australian). Maybe you subscribed to both whilst having a glass of red and forgot about it?
Anyway, it's all in the Daily Telegraph
http://www.dailytelegraph.com.au/tra...70823d55d3effe
How do you know those routes are profitable? It may just be having committed to a capital investment it has to be utilised. If the A380 was a profitable aircraft then there would have been further orders for them. New orders and Airbus would still be manufacturing them. It was quite the contrary orders were cancelled. Filling an A380 to capacity does not mean it's making a profit. It all depends on the yield. There are numerous operating constraints ($$$$) it incurs related to its size.
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