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Delta Air launches Australian route
A Delta Air plane in flight.
THE battle for air passengers on the busy Australia-US route has grown hotter with US airline giant Delta launching its inaugural Los Angeles to Sydney flight.
The flight is scheduled to leave LA international airport at 10.35pm LA time on Wednesday (3.35pm Thursday AEST).
Delta plans to steal market share from the dominant airlines on the route, Qantas and United Airlines and another newcomer, Richard Branson's recently-launched V Australia.
The increased competition has slashed fares.
With Delta beginning flights from the US to Australia it becomes the only US carrier to offer service to six continents.
To celebrate the occasion, Delta partnered with Tourism Australia to stage a 'pre-boarding party' at the airport for the 278 passengers booked on the flight.
Qantas is famous for its flying kangaroo insignia but Delta had its own marsupial for the party.
A real kangaroo attended the party.
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Posted by Predictor from Moore Park, Queensland
02 July 2009 7:32 p.m. | Suggest removal » | Post reply »
This is like foreigners and backpackers stealing our local jobs.
All locals end up at the dole office whilst foreigners celebrate driving local grocery prices even further up.
Labour politicians crushed our manufacturing and agricultural base with free trade for cheap imports and labour force..!
Now we got the yanks buzzing in like blowfly's to jump on our cake which makes it more and more difficult to share the crumbs with our local flyers.
Hmmm, I see the Centrelink office door's have to be widened quickly once this Delta mob buzzes around our local cakes...!