SINGAPORE Airlines, the world's biggest carrier by market value, has been shut out of flying from Australia to the US West Coast, Transport Minister Anthony Albanese said.
Qantas Airways, UAL Corp's United Airlines and Virgin Blue Holdings' V Australia will remain the only carriers on the route, Mr Albanese said.
V Australia will start flying the trans-Pacific sector in February.
'The government has no immediate plans for additional third-party access to the route at this time,' says the Green Paper on Aviation Mr Albanese released today in Canberra.
Singapore's government had asked Australia's government to reconsider a 2006 decision not to let the carrier fly on the route.
