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Landing-slot changes keep Australian aviation out of antitrust spotlight

By Saloni Sinha and James Panichi ( April 15, 2025, 07:37 GMT | Comment) -- After dominating Australian headlines for the past few years, the lack of competition in the aviation sector hasn’t featured prominently in an otherwise hotly contested election campaign. The reason for this is that by assigning the management of landing slots at Sydney Airport to a foreign company with no ties to the domestic-airline duopoly, the government has defused a sensitive political issue. Yet with two fledgling airlines collapsing in 2024 and no new market entrants on the horizon, concerns about the effects of market concentration will continue to simmer — albeit far from the spotlight. There’s a reason why the once politically charged issue of aviation competition hasn’t featured in the election campaign that’s now underway in Australia....

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