Darwin Airline

He said paying overseas crew at local rates would have a “minuscule” impact on the airline's costs and criticised as ridiculous Joyce's assertion that the changes would make Darwin and Cairns routes unviable.

| SYDNEY Feb 6 (Reuters) - Australia's Qantas Airways said proposed legislative changes aimed at ensuring the airline kept key roles in Australia were a threat to its future and if passed would force it to cut services and jobs.

... Qantas that paying domestic wages to overseas-based crew could put its Darwin and Cairns operations at risk. Joyce and his counterpart at the low-cost offshoot Jetstar, Bruce Buchanan, have told a Senate inquiry their airlines ";must adapt or die";.

Qantas will have higher costs and fares, be forced to sell its low-fare subsidiary Jetstar and abandon services to Darwin and Cairns if legislation proposed by independent Senator Nick Xenophon comes into law, according to the airline and a leading ...

";That would have a serious impact not only on Darwin but on Cairns and on all of the tourism industries that rely on those services to feed passengers into Darwin."; Senator Xenophon was dismissive of the airlines' arguments.

Qantas chief executive Alan Joyce has renewed his attack on proposed law changes limiting the airline's ability to hire foreign flight crews, arguing they will force it to dump services to Darwin and Cairns. Fronting a Senate inquiry in Canberra this ...

He said if foreign-based crews had to be paid Australian wages, it would cause the Qantas Group to withdraw connecting services from Europe and Asia into Cairns and Darwin, affecting 66 flights weekly. Senator Xenophon dismissed the airline chiefs' ...

Jetstar has four aircraft based in Darwin. ''The impact on regional tourism and development would be immediate and negative. Strangling our international business and forcing us to pay uncompetitive wages compared to our foreign airline competition is ...

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Jetstar chief executive Bruce Buchanan said the airline had set up a significant base in Darwin but it was the most marginal port in Australia. He said Jetstar was already pulling off some services and having to tweak others under the cost of doing ...