{"id":7234,"date":"2024-01-30T14:57:03","date_gmt":"2024-01-30T04:57:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/australianaviation.com.au\/?p=1373518"},"modified":"2024-01-30T14:57:03","modified_gmt":"2024-01-30T04:57:03","slug":"more-carriers-on-a-route-can-halve-airfares-says-minister","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/?p=7234","title":{"rendered":"More carriers on a route can halve airfares, says minister"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"640\" height=\"361\" src=\"https:\/\/australianaviation.com.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/melbourne-airport-planes-1024x578.jpg\" class=\"attachment-large size-large wp-post-image wp-image-1174076 wp-post-1373518\" alt=\"\" loading=\"lazy\" style=\"float:left; margin:0 15px 15px 0;\" srcset=\"https:\/\/australianaviation.com.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/melbourne-airport-planes-770x431.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/australianaviation.com.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/melbourne-airport-planes-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/australianaviation.com.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/melbourne-airport-planes-150x85.jpg 150w, https:\/\/australianaviation.com.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/melbourne-airport-planes-768x433.jpg 768w, https:\/\/australianaviation.com.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/melbourne-airport-planes-400x225.jpg 400w, https:\/\/australianaviation.com.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/melbourne-airport-planes-370x209.jpg 370w, https:\/\/australianaviation.com.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/melbourne-airport-planes-157x88.jpg 157w, https:\/\/australianaviation.com.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/melbourne-airport-planes-770x431.jpg 1200w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/>In a speech before the Chifley Research Institute on Tuesday, Dr Andrew Leigh, the Assistant Minister for Competition, pointed to figures from the taskforce showing that airfares average 39.6 cents per kilometre on routes with only one carrier, 28.2 cents on routes with two carriers, and 19.2 cents with three.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In a speech before the Chifley Research Institute on Tuesday, Dr Andrew Leigh, the Assistant Minister for Competition, pointed to figures from the taskforce showing that airfares average 39.6 cents per kilometre on routes with only one carrier, 28.2 ce&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":13,"featured_media":12725,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","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":[273,312,473,471],"tags":[472],"class_list":["post-7234","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-australia","category-aviation","category-industry","category-news","tag-australian"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7234","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\/13"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=7234"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7234\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7235,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7234\/revisions\/7235"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/12725"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=7234"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=7234"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=7234"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}