{"id":177106,"date":"2025-02-18T11:33:09","date_gmt":"2025-02-18T01:33:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/?p=177106"},"modified":"2025-02-18T11:34:05","modified_gmt":"2025-02-18T01:34:05","slug":"accc-gives-the-go-ahead-to-virgin-qatar-alliance","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/?p=177106","title":{"rendered":"ACCC gives the go ahead to Virgin-Qatar alliance"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>The\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.theage.com.au\/link\/follow-20170101-p5kxzi\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title=\"\">planned tie-up between Virgin Australia and Qatar Airways<\/a>\u00a0has cleared an important hurdle, with the competition watchdog saying it doesn\u2019t have a problem with the deal. Under the proposed deal, Virgin, in partnership with Qatar Airways, will launch 28 new weekly return services between Doha and Perth, Brisbane, Sydney and Melbourne.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Qatar Airways would operate the new flights through its aircraft and crew, in what is known in the aviation industry as a \u201cwet lease\u201d arrangement. The flights would be in direct competition with Qantas\u2019 international operations.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Qatar Airways would operate the new flights through its aircraft and crew, in what is known in the aviation industry as a \u201cwet lease\u201d arrangement.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":22,"featured_media":12871,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_uf_show_specific_survey":0,"_uf_disable_surveys":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3837,402,35,1514,937],"tags":[15418,8339],"class_list":["post-177106","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-accc","category-airline-news","category-breaking-news","category-qatar-airways","category-virgin-australia","tag-doha","tag-perth"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/177106","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/22"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=177106"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/177106\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":177108,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/177106\/revisions\/177108"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/12871"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=177106"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=177106"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=177106"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}