I travel across the Pacific fairly often; at least once every two years. I would make the trip more but it is very expensive. We usually reckon on it costing about $1400-$1600 USD a person, though I noticed the current ticket prices are around the $2000 mark each. In comparison a flight to London from Washington DC is $400 USD. This is why protected markets are bad, given economic choice I would fly east, not west, and Europe, rather than Australia would be getting my tourist dollars.
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Singapore Airlines was stopped by the Federal Government from flying between Sydney and Los Angeles
- to rub salt in the wound - they were told it was in their interests to merge with QANTAS. I am not sure why politicians should be making that call.
Air Canada was granted permission
(?) last month by the federal government to begin operating between Sydney and Los Angeles, as well as Sydney and Toronto. So why not Singapore Airlines?
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