{"id":15394,"date":"2023-04-19T00:06:18","date_gmt":"2023-04-19T00:06:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lynettelockhart.com\/client\/australian-regulator-re-authorises-5-year\/"},"modified":"2023-04-19T00:08:54","modified_gmt":"2023-04-19T00:08:54","slug":"australian-regulator-re-authorises-5-year","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/lynettelockhart.com\/client\/australian-regulator-re-authorises-5-year\/","title":{"rendered":"Australian regulator re-authorises 5-year coordination between Jetstar&#8217;s Asian brands"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>(Reuters) &#8211;     Australia&#8217;s competition regulator on Wednesday re-authorised Qantas Airways Ltd and its budget arm Jetstar Airways Pty Ltd for a five-year continued coordination for two Jetstar Asian-based joint ventures &#8211; Jetstar Asia and Jetstar Japan.<\/p>\n<p>The Australian Competition and Consumer Commission (ACCC) had previously granted an interim authorisation to the company, saying the continued coordination allows Jetstar to operate as a single fully integrated organisation &#8220;on matters such as flight scheduling, sales and marketing, and pricing&#8221;. <\/p>\n<p>The re-authorisation also allows continued coordination between Jetstar Japan and Japan Airlines under certain circumstances, the regulator said.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We believe the coordination is likely to result in public benefits by providing consumers with a wider choice of products, enhanced services, and more convenient flight times,&#8221; ACCC Commissioner Anna Brakey said.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We have decided to grant re-authorisation for five years, instead of the 10 years sought, given the dynamic and rapidly evolving nature of the travel industry.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The re-authorisation does not allow coordination between Qantas and Japan Airlines, the regulator added. <\/p>\n<p \/>\n<p> (Reporting by Nausheen Thusoo in Bengaluru; Editing by Anil D&#8217;Silva and Subhranshu Sahu)<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/lynettelockhart.com\/client\/australian-regulator-re-authorises-5-year\/sydney-airport-as-australia-reacts-to-the-new-coronavirus-omicron\/\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/lynettelockhart.com\/client\/wp-content\/uploads\/Reuters_Direct_Media\/USOnlineReportEconomy\/tagreuters.com2023binary_LYNXMPEJ3I002-VIEWIMAGE.jpg\" alt=\"tagreuters.com2023binary_LYNXMPEJ3I002-VIEWIMAGE\"><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>(Reuters) &#8211; Australia&#8217;s competition regulator on Wednesday re-authorised Qantas Airways Ltd and its budget arm Jetstar Airways Pty Ltd for a five-year continued coordination for two Jetstar Asian-based joint ventures &#8211; Jetstar Asia and Jetstar Japan. The Australian Competition and Consumer Commission (ACCC) had previously granted an interim authorisation to the company, saying the continued [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":15395,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"spay_email":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1216],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-15394","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-u-s-economy"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"http:\/\/lynettelockhart.com\/client\/wp-content\/uploads\/Reuters_Direct_Media\/USOnlineReportEconomy\/tagreuters.com2023binary_LYNXMPEJ3I002-VIEWIMAGE.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/lynettelockhart.com\/client\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15394","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/lynettelockhart.com\/client\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/lynettelockhart.com\/client\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/lynettelockhart.com\/client\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/lynettelockhart.com\/client\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15394"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/lynettelockhart.com\/client\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15394\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15396,"href":"http:\/\/lynettelockhart.com\/client\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15394\/revisions\/15396"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/lynettelockhart.com\/client\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/15395"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/lynettelockhart.com\/client\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15394"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/lynettelockhart.com\/client\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15394"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/lynettelockhart.com\/client\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15394"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}