Radical plan to BUY BACK Qantas for $9 billion so passengers aren’t ripped off – with national carrier now dominating Australia’s skies
- Transport Workers Union wants federal government to nationalise Qantas
- The flying kangaroo airline has a 74 per cent domestic travel market share
- This means there is little competition allowing Qantas to up its airfares
- Qantas refuted claims it underpaid workers pointing to management pay freeze
- A Labor government privatised Qantas in 1992 on proviso it stayed in Australia
- Kiwi Labour government bought back a privatised Air New Zealand in 2001
