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Australia’s clear blue market gap: open for North American-style disruption?

Australia is returning to a virtual airline duopoly as Virgin Australia, the former Skywest and Tiger face off against Qantas, QantasLink and Jetstar.

Few observers have wasted time drawing parallels of Ansett-like proportions for one or both of the airline groups. But the early 2000s, so dominated by events across the Pacific, provide an alternate set of lessons — and a potential future for Australian aviation — from three North American airlines: jetBlue, Porter and Southwest.