Qantas says Qatar Airways flights tourism boost overblown

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But Qantas said: “Suggestions that granting the Qatar Civil Aviation Authority application would have materially advanced the Australian tourism industry’s recovery are overstated.” Qantas provided the document to the Senate following last Wednesday’s appearance of chief executive Vanessa Hudson and chairman Richard Goyder at an inquiry into the decision to block the Qatar bid taken by Transport Minister Catherine King. During the hearing Ms Hudson refused to say whether Qantas would still raise objections to Qatar being granted additional landing rights, given the return of many foreign carriers since its original submission last October. Qantas said “the vast majority of...