Tldr from notegpt
Summary
- Qatar Airways operates a daily flight from Melbourne to Adelaide, despite it being almost empty every morning.
- Airlines need permission to fly routes, and flying empty or near-empty planes helps maintain their rights to the route.
- Qatar Airways has a limited number of flights to Australia's major airports, so they registered a flight to Adelaide to bypass this restriction.
- Passengers on this flight disembark in Melbourne and cannot board in Adelaide due to aviation laws.
- The flight then returns to Melbourne empty before flying back to Doha
- Qatar Airways gets additional flights to Melbourne, and Australia avoids potential issues if Qantas goes bankrupt.
- However, this results in unnecessary carbon emissions.
Highlights
- ๐ซ Qatar Airways operates an empty flight from Melbourne to Adelaide every morning.
- โ๏ธ Airlines fly empty planes to maintain legal rights to routes.
- ๐ Qatar Airways registered a flight to Adelaide to bypass restrictions on major airports.
- ๐ซ Aviation laws prevent domestic passengers from boarding in Adelaide.- ๐ The flight returns to Melbourne empty before flying back to Doha.
- โป๏ธ Additional flights come at the cost of increased carbon emissions.
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