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> "no ticket sales were permitted for domestic passengers to board the plane from Melbourne to Adelaide" Isn't that relatively normal? I mean I think there are
by NeoTar 3y ago
> "no ticket sales were permitted for domestic passengers to board the plane from Melbourne to Adelaide"
Isn't that relatively normal? I mean I think there are plenty of circumstances where an airline is permitted to fly internationally to a country, but it not permitted to operate (i.e sell tickets for) internal routes.
- kalleboo 3y agoThese rules are called the Freedoms of the air if you want to read more https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Freedoms_of_the_air https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Freedoms_of_the_air
- rootsudo 3y agoVery normal, it's protectionism so that local carriers e.g. quantas/jetstar have those locked down and not have foreign competition. Though Jet star is partially owned/operated by JAL and Quantas.
- stephen_g 3y agoThat last bit isn’t correct, Jetstar itself is a wholly owned subsidiary of Qantas. There is a smaller and separate ‘Jetstar Japan’ (a bit more than a quarter of the fleet size) that is partly owned by Qantas along with JAL and some other groups (including Mitsubishi Corporation) but that airline only flies domestically in Japan and internationally to a few countries in the area (Hong Kong, Phillipines, China, Taiwan).
- NovemberWhiskey 3y agoYes - it's relatively normal - consecutive cabotage (aka "eighth freedom") means carrying passengers or cargo between two places in another country having started (or intending to end) the flight in your own country. So the MEL-ADL leg would have DOH-DEL-ADL would be an example of that for a Qatari flag carrier. Cabotage as a whole is pretty unusual outside of integrated aviation markets like Europe. I would be very surprised if Qatar and Australia had an agreement that permitted it. In that absence of such an agreement, it would probably be illegal for QR to sell those tickets.