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.