British Airways still has Iberia as a potential partner, but the next move for Qantas is unclear after it broke off talks with BA about a merger.

Alan Joyce, the new chief executive of Qantas, has not retreated from his belief in the need for consolidation. He likens the current financial crisis to “a slow-moving earthquake” that is “accelerating the inevitable push to a new aviation world order”.

But Joyce was less enthused, per local reports, than Qantas chairman Leigh Clifford or former chief executive Geoff Dixon about a possible merger with BA. Joyce has not said why, but he could have concluded that BA offered Qantas little relief from its two biggest international challenges — the Kangaroo route to Europe, and the Pacific route to the US.

For years Qantas has been lo

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