Matthew Lynn, writing for The Telegraph:

Browsing Expedia on Friday morning, the cheapest return flights from London to Sydney for May were on Etihad, Emirates and Qatar.

If I wanted to stop in Singapore instead of one of the Gulf airports, it would cost me about 40pc more to fly with Qantas. There is no great surprise about that. The Gulf carriers all have great service and modern fleets with the latest planes, but even so, all things considered, if I were planning to make that trip, I don’t think I would want to risk getting stuck at Doha or Dubai airport for a week or two watching the drones fly overhead.

Sure, it may not be as risky as some of the more alarming reports suggest. Even so, I would not want to take the chance, and neither, I suspect, would many other people.

Lynn’s piece argues that this is an opportunity for BA, who just announced a new route from London to Melbourne, stopping in Kuala Lumpur. Rather than gouging customers, he says the British flag carrier should keep prices steady and use the war to regain lost market share. Good read.