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Originally Posted by Bevan Webber
What is the chance that United drops there LA to Sydney flight and lets V Australia look after that market and UA continues with SFO-SYD. With Delta starting LAX-SYD it will be a very competitive market.
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I tend to think their relationship isn't that strong and probably won't get to that stage. UA will still have good position in LAX-AUS given their connections / network in US. Similarly with QF/AA and DL.
V Australia has to focus on origin-destination traffic and this limits their market.
With the amount invested in getting a new fleet, supporting the operations of the 77W, training, development of new products, pouring of resources into the new start-up, it is an extremely hard task in itself. Compound this with the worsening global economy, and another new entrant to the route - they really are facing an uphill battle