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   From: jim.mason@spamtrappedukonline.co.uk   
      
   ACCC decision welcomed   
      
   BA Press Release 08/02/05   
      
   The Australian Competition and Consumer Commission (ACCC) today gave   
   approval to the continuation of the joint service agreement (JSA) between   
   British Airways and Qantas for a further five years.   
      
   Roger Maynard, British Airways? director of investments and alliances,   
   said: ?The JSA on the kangaroo routes has been in place for 10 years and we   
   have always said it is pro-consumer and pro-choice.   
      
   ?It gives travellers more flights, lower air fares, and the best   
   connections on the kangaroo routes between Australia and the UK. We are   
   delighted, but not surprised, at the outcome.?   
      
   The decision comes after an exhaustive 21 month investigation by the ACCC,   
   which culminated in a final hearing in December last year at which Virgin   
   Atlantic claimed the JSA was anti-competitive.   
      
   Despite Virgin Atlantic?s objections, the ACCC confirmed its draft findings   
   that the JSA was pro-competitive.   
      
   ends   
      
   Notes to editors:   
   The alliance was first approved in 1995.   
   It was last extended in March 2000.   
   The ACCC had stated on two previous occasions that the JSA is pro   
   competitive.   
      
   February 8, 2005   
      
      
   011/KG/05   
      
      
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   Press Office in London on +44 (0)208 738 5100 (office hours) or 0870 850 9   
   850 (from the UK). For contacts in the UK regions and internationally click   
   here.   
      
      
      
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