QANTAS chairwoman Margaret Jackson has rounded on Emirates president Tim Clark after he said the two airlines competed fairly.
”To suggest that Emirates is competing on similar terms as commercially-run airlines like Qantas is, quite frankly, fiction,” she said.
Jackson pointed out Emirates was 100% owned by the Government of Dubai and government ownership provided a sovereign risk rating that allowed the airline to carry debt levels far higher than could be sustained by publicly listed carriers such as Qantas.
She has said Qantas was restricted in its flights to the UK, while Emirates could operate many more services which connect onto Australia.
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