Alan Kohler is one of Australia’s most experienced commentators and journalists. Alan is the founder of Eureka Report, Australia’s most successful investment newsletter, and Business Spectator, a 24-hour free business news and commentary website. He also hosts Inside Business, a half-hour Sunday programme on the ABC, is the finance presenter on the ABC News - and producer of the nightly graph (or two).
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Comments on this article
Comments PolicyWhy hasn't "the penny dropped" with the erudite? and learned? and educated? set. Even at this late date you all obviously just still don't 'get it'?
The airlines that QANTAS will NEVER EVER be able to compete with are, (without exception), all of the airlines that were created in the identical business model of the 'OLD QANTAS'! In fact Qantas executives (on loan) did most of the setting up of these carriers - who are now eating up the 'privatised' version of QANTAS 'at will or whim'!
The 'OLD QANTAS' model was the 'State or Nation or Emirate' owning at least a controlling percentage of the shares in the operating airline, which was then run as a privately owned company - but - with its interests aligned to the national interest and its own interests,(short, medium, and long term, and it's 'freedoms of the sky') protected by the state.
Oh - the shameful irony of it all, and the embarrassment that the greedy 'flock bleatings' for privatisation were taken so seriously back then. A deceit that was touted as something that would give improvement to that which we already had the best of - THE BEST, BY FAR, AIRLINE THAT HAD EVER EXISTED.
Talk about a national 'shoot your foot off screw-up'!