Events during the past 24 hours are not proving kind to Qantas’ ambitions in Asia. Vietnam Airlines and Malaysia Airlines have thrown spanners in the works.
Vietnam Airlines
Hanoi calling Jetstar: “Get lost!”
Hanoi wants Jetstar out of Vietnam, and the “country arrest” of its two Australian executives is nothing more than crude bargaining, says Ben Sandilands.
Jetstar creates a jet stir in Vietnam
The $A53.9 million Qantas investment in Jetstar Pacific has flown into an ideological chasm in the ranks of the Communist Party and government in Vietnam, and it isn’t clear how it can escape.
