Fed: Cabinet likely to knock back Singapore access to US route

AAP General News (Australia)
02-20-2006
Fed: Cabinet likely to knock back Singapore access to US route

Federal Cabinet is expected this week to finally refuse Singapore Airlines access to
the lucrative Australia-US route.

Getting access to the route .. which accounts for as much as 20 per cent of Qantas's
profits .. has been an ambition of Singapore Airlines for more than a decade.

The government has been delaying the decision on whether to open up the route .. …