It also allowed the airline to save an estimated $13 million a year.
In time the airline will allow other airlines to use this facility.
These more modern machines allowed the airline or expand services.
Now, with Air 21, the federal government is allowing airlines to add hundreds of flights.
That proposal would have allowed the airline to stretch out contributions to its plan over many years.
The government awards the slots that allow airlines to schedule service, and no more are available.
This would allow the Spanish airline to market the American services as if they were its own.
The Australian government then changed the rules to allow foreign airlines to fly domestic routes.
Allowing airlines to use tax revenue would force the Government to borrow more money and increase its role in the airline industry, it said.
If approved by the bankruptcy court, the agreement will allow the airline to emerge from Chapter 11.