On 24 September 2019, the Commission received an application from Virgin Australia for an allocation of one frequency per day for passenger services during daytime hours on the Japan route to operate to/from Haneda Airport. Virgin Australia’s application [PDF: 692 KB]

Since there are two carriers applying for the same limited capacity, the Commission invites submissions about the applications pursuant to section 12 of the International Air Services Commission Act 1992 and section 7 of the International Air Services Commission Regulations 2018. The closing date for lodging a submission is 2 October 2019. If you are intending to make a submission, please inform the Executive Director of the Commission, by email (at iasc@infrastructure.gov.au), of your intention to make a submission as soon as possible.

IASC Letter to ACCC - 

[PDF: 65 KB]

ACCC submission-

[PDF: 249 KB]

Submissions Received

• Qantas -  [PDF: 107 KB]  
• Department of Innovation and Tourism Industry Development - [PDF: 330 KB]  
• Brisbane Airport Corporation - Submission  [PDF: 175 KB]  , Tourism and Events Queensland - Japan Market Snapshot  [PDF: 120 KB]  , Queensland-Japan Trade Profile  [PDF: 516 KB]  
• Toru Adachi (Mr) -  [PDF: 60 KB]  
• Tourism Australia -  [PDF: 539 KB]    
  Supplementary submission - [PDF: 192 KB]  
• Phillip Emmanuel -  [PDF: 117 KB]  
• Minister for Innovation and Tourism Industry Development and Minister for Cross River Rail -  [PDF: 134 KB]
• Destination NSW -  [PDF: 374 KB]  
• Minister for Jobs, Investment, Tourism and Western Sydney -  [PDF: 27 KB]  

The Commission wrote to the Department requesting further information

Reasonably capable of operating the Haneda route

• IASC letter to the Department -   [PDF: 77 KB]  
• Department of Infrastructure, Transport, Cities and Regional Development - response -  [PDF: 33 KB]  

View on what would happen with unutilised Haneda slots

• IASC letter to the Department -   [PDF: 81 KB]  
• Department of Infrastructure, Transport, Cities and Regional Development - response -   [PDF: 33 KB]  

On 21 October 2019, the Commission issued Draft Determinations [2019] IASC 118d and [2019] IASC 119d [PDF: 311 KB] , concerning Qantas and Virgin Australia's applications for passenger capacity on the Japan (Haneda) route. The Commission proposes to allocate one daily frequency to Qantas and one daily frequency to Virgin Australia to operate passenger services on the Japan route to service Tokyo - Haneda.

Invitation for submissions

The Commission invites submissions about the Draft Determinations. The closing date for making a submission is 24 October 2019.

If you are intending to make a submission, please inform the Executive Director of the Commission by email (iasc@infrastructure.gov.au) of your intention to make a submission as soon as possible.

Submissions received about the Draft Determination:

• Amy Tomoe -

  [PDF: 203 KB]
• Virgin Australia -  [PDF: 98 KB]  
• Canberra Airport - [PDF: 85 KB]  

On 28 October 2019, the Commission issued:

• Determination [PDF: 324 KB]  allocating to Qantas Airways Limited one daily frequency in each direction to operate passenger services on the Japan route to service Tokyo-Haneda, and
• Determination  [PDF: 324 KB]  allocating to Virgin Australia International Airlines Pty Ltd one daily frequency in each direction to operate passenger services on the Australia-Japan route to service Tokyo-Haneda. The capacity may be used by Virgin Australia International Airlines Pty Ltd for the provision of code share services on the Australia-Japan route with All Nippon Airways, subject to certain conditions. 

Both determinations are valid for five years from 28 October 2019.