Original sentence: Despite recent attempts by the airport's management to promote new services to Melbourne and pursuade the Australian government to approve a number of foreign airlines to either start or increase services to Melbourne, nothing eventuated
Edited sentence: Despite recent attempts by the airport's management to promote new services to Melbourne and pursuade the Australian governemt to approve a number of foreign airlines to either start or increase services to Melbourne, up until now nothing has eventuated.It is important to note that Melbourne Airport has not received any new foreign carriers for approximately three years and in that time airlines such as Austrian Airlines and British Airways have ceased flights to Melbourne, significantly reducing capacity.Melbourne Airport is constantly described as being extremely under-served by international carriers, by citizens of Melbourne, the Victorian government and the airport's own executives.The Australian government did however recently approve Middle Eastern carrier Etihad Airways access into Australia however Sydney and Brisbane were chosen instead of Melbourne