07-30-2018, 09:54 PM
THE GREAT AIRFARE CON JOB
My experience as a businessman in the aviation sector over the past 6 to 12 months are as follows;
Airfares are higher at the destinations serviced by just one carrier - that’s gouging.
Airfares are higher to regional communities that are predominately mining communities/towns - that’s gouging.
The three major regional airlines - Alliance, VA and The Rat are playing a game of ruthless hardball with airports over fees and charges. The past 2 years have been brutal, particularly Qantas with its own ‘written rule’ about airports needing to provide them with 90 days written notice regarding fees and charges increases each year. So what they do is that they know that Councils don’t adopt budgets until early June each year, and only then can the new charges be sent out. So that means the new rates (if Qantas accept them) don’t start getting paid until around September each year. And even then Qantas will say ‘just because you sent us the new rates doesn’t mean we will pay them’. They are demanding an intimate breakdown of airports finances and fee setting mechanisms and methodologies, yet they refuse to provide the same sort of airline data to the airports. The ACCC are too stupid to even be aware of this rort and are certainly to gutless to chase down the airlines - now that is a gouge.
My experience as a businessman in the aviation sector over the past 6 to 12 months are as follows;
Airfares are higher at the destinations serviced by just one carrier - that’s gouging.
Airfares are higher to regional communities that are predominately mining communities/towns - that’s gouging.
The three major regional airlines - Alliance, VA and The Rat are playing a game of ruthless hardball with airports over fees and charges. The past 2 years have been brutal, particularly Qantas with its own ‘written rule’ about airports needing to provide them with 90 days written notice regarding fees and charges increases each year. So what they do is that they know that Councils don’t adopt budgets until early June each year, and only then can the new charges be sent out. So that means the new rates (if Qantas accept them) don’t start getting paid until around September each year. And even then Qantas will say ‘just because you sent us the new rates doesn’t mean we will pay them’. They are demanding an intimate breakdown of airports finances and fee setting mechanisms and methodologies, yet they refuse to provide the same sort of airline data to the airports. The ACCC are too stupid to even be aware of this rort and are certainly to gutless to chase down the airlines - now that is a gouge.