The federal government’s controversial decision to block Qatar flights has sparked heated scenes on TV, with 2GB host Chris O’Keefe launching into a spray at Labor minister Bill Shorten and demanding to know “why are we protecting” Qantas.
slammed the government’s decision in July to reject Qatar Airways’ request to double its flight capacity, claiming there was “no coherent logic” for the call.“Qantas doesn’t want the government to let in more Qatar flights because it will only help Australians,” he said. “Bill, it will help Aussies, therefore we shouldn’t do it.
Mr Shorten agreed that Qantas has commercial interests but “there’s another sets of commercial interests, the Qatari government and Virgin, they’re businesses too”. He did not appear before a Senate inquiry last week into the federal government’s decision to block Qatar Airways from increasing its capacity into Brisbane, Sydney and Melbourne.
She said the decision was ultimately one for government and stressed Qantas did not receive a heads up on the outcome but took the question on notice. After the first meeting in January, she “was left with a very clear impression, that the decision to proceed was very compelling and imminent”. During the incident, five Australian women were ordered off a plane at gunpoint and strip searched after officials found a newborn in a bin.
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