Quote: QantasLink has sent rival regional carrier Skywest a $1 million bill for passenger security screening services at Western Australian airports carried out since March 2002.
Skywest chairman Jeff Chatfield told the Australian Stock Exchange the carrier was “surprised” by the demand.
He said the letter referred to Skywest’s “liability of charges without agreement”.
Chatfield said the company was reviewing the letter and would respond shortly.
WeAreUnited From United States of America, joined Aug 2004, 423 posts, RR: 1 Reply 1, posted (7 years 10 months 2 weeks 1 day 18 hours ago) and read 2252 times:
Just to clarify- this is Skywest in Australia- not SkyWest Airlines here in the states.
777ER From New Zealand, joined Dec 2003, 11308 posts, RR: 17 Reply 2, posted (7 years 10 months 5 days 18 hours ago) and read 1778 times:
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Just to clarify- this is Skywest in Australia- not SkyWest Airlines here in the states. Thats very obvious....QantasLink has sent rival regional carrier Skywest a $1 million bill for passenger security screening services at Western Australian airports carried out since March 2002.
FriendlySkies From United States of America, joined Aug 2004, 4003 posts, RR: 6 Reply 4, posted (7 years 10 months 4 days 23 hours ago) and read 1360 times:
That wasn't obvious, at first I thought it was OO...
777ER From New Zealand, joined Dec 2003, 11308 posts, RR: 17 Reply 5, posted (7 years 10 months 4 days 21 hours ago) and read 1237 times:
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Well I don't think there is a QF link operating in the USA or Sky west USA operate to Western Australia. Just need to read the article to work it out, So yes it was very obvious that it was about Skywest Australia
Soyuzavia From Australia, joined Jun 2005, 593 posts, RR: 0 Reply 7, posted (7 years 10 months 4 days 16 hours ago) and read 1085 times:
Haha bitching about the title -- for crying out loud -- in future, if referring to XR, just state something like "Qantas sends the better Skywest $1m Bill" and be done with it. This way people won't be confused when they see Western Australian airports. And when referring to OO, just state "the worst Skywest". Easy.
Now for the first comment in this thread related to the actual topic, liability of charges without agreement would indicate to me that XR didn't have a contract with QF for the security services given by QF, so they could be up for whatever QF wants to charge. But it would seem to me, that if this amount is considered hefty, it is nothing more than a ploy by QF to hurt XR and try to force them out of key markets in WA (just to clarify for any OO'ers, WA means Western Australia not Washington), such as PER-BME.
Tornado82 From , joined Dec 1969, posts, RR: Reply 8, posted (7 years 10 months 4 days 13 hours ago) and read 979 times:
Quoting 777ER (Reply 5): Well I don't think there is a QF link operating in the USA or Sky west USA operate to Western Australia. Just need to read the article to work it out, So yes it was very obvious that it was about Skywest Australia
My SkyWest CRJ yesterday had connecting service to SYD from ORD
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