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Originally Posted by Andrew
Ash mentions there are "heaps of options" on routing to Europe, however, that's not necessarily the case. Bilateral's (air service agreements) between various countries may limit the capacity and frequency competing airlines may provide limiting (and some cases preventing) access. A good case-in-point is Qantas and Paris. Qantas cannot secure daily rights between Singapore and Paris, yet Air France and Singapore airlines can. 3 x per week is not viable for Qantas to operate on this market. The same applies to China - Qantas has been lobbying to operate via China to London but is unable to secure daily operations.
So although there may be other 'routings' available for Australian airlines to operate between Australia and Europe, they may not be workable by way of bilateral limitation.
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True, indeed, but until you start to explore routes and open then up rights cannot be secured. The main point however was Emirates works through Dubai because it is there hub and there isn't much traffic going to JUST Dubai. Other airlines would struggle so are better off looking to locations closer to home where they could home FROM. Just like Qantas and their mini Singapore hub.