WENDELL HUSSEY | Cadet | CONTACT
The nation is this week mulling over yet another failed attempt at breaking into the aviation market.
Like many before them, an overseas backed airline by the name of Bonza yesterday revealed that they’ve done their arse.
The newest kid on the air traffic controlled tarmac cancelled flights on Tuesday, leaving passengers stranded and with a 50/50 chance of getting their money back.
Administrators have come in to figure things out, with an announcement about the airline’s future expected at the end of this week – which will likely just be confirmation that they are fucked.
The latest airline failure has lead many media pundits and politicians to chortle about how Bonza were always fucked because they ‘decided’ to base themselves in the Sunshine Coast and fly ‘stupid routes’ like Mildura to the Gold Coast.
Of course little has been made of the fact that Qantas and Virgin used their market power to squash any chance of Bonza getting slots at Melbourne’s airport (not the one half way to Adelaide) and Sydney – essentially wrecking their prospects of commercial viability and forcing them to take a punt on random routes.
Despite the fact having another airline offering flights would probably be good for consumers in the most concentrated airline market in the world, the government has refused to do anything to prevent Virgin and Qantas from crushing anyone that tries to make a move on their monopoly.
In fact, they’ve done the opposite, actively propping up the businesses that use fancy accountants to avoid paying tax, or paying back the billions of dollars they were given by the government in ‘support packages.’
“This is how the free market works baby,” laughed Prime Minister Anthony Albanese today.
“Ie. Bonza didn’t offer me or a single member of my family free lounge access.”
“They didn’t offer a single politician or media figure free access to some shit sandwiches, pasta and Peronis.”
“I mean, not like any of us would ever go to Mildura, but you get the point.”
“So, why would we do anything to help them out? Let alone just give them a few billion dollars for nothing.”
“Wake up to yourselves,” he laughed before hanging up and going to get himself a toastie.
More to come.
