catching up to its counterpart let's get to deidre bosa. >> amazon has had a good year returning 30%.baba's had even a better one. the shares nearly doubling that puts it within striking distance of dethroning amazon. it puts both companies into a race to half a trillion dollars in market cap. alibaba has had the edge since august 1st on the back of an earnings report that blew past estimates. amazon's rally has halted altogether this month. its shares falling nearly 1% and down about 100 bucks from its recent peek. from analysts alibaba gets slightly more love not a single one has a sell rating on facts that if mean target price is 197.51, $51 higher than where shares stay. amazon has one sell rating of the 44 analysts covering it and it's 17% from its mean target price. both dominate ecome 34ers and both are expanding into new businesses like groceries, original content and cloud one of the major differences is that alibaba has the much larger and faster growing chinese market and of course the middle class. some investors see alibaba as a proxy for that growth. that's part of the r

are also split on airbnb with less than half of respondents saying it's been good for the country deidre bosa, cnbc business news. >>> qantas airlines has shifted its headlines back to singapore from dubai sri jegarajah is at the aviation festival in north london what have you been finding out >> yes this strategy by qantas, as you said, is part of a broader strategy and a plan to try to capture more of that asian demand, and the alinliance with emirates helps qantas do that. you have to bear in mind a lot of these legacy carriers are under pressure qantas is no exception it had a tough time a few years ago, but profitability has turned around under the turnaround campaign. all of this rerouting and the new route is part of that earlier on today at aviation festival, we caught up with garrett evans, ceo of the qantas freight division i asked what kind of demand he saw on the new routes and asked him to give us a line on passenger yield. >> demand will be strong people have said nobody wants to be on an aircraft for 20 hours, but 30 years ago people said they didn't want to be on an aircraft f