Qantas said the study was not an accurate representation of its fuel efficiency across the Pacific, and it had a number of fuel-efficiency programs in place.
I would not agree with the quantum of difference either, but the fact is that the difference is still stark, there is no way that having an inefficient fleet, fuel wise, can be turned into an efficient fleet, short of having the efficient aeroplanes.
The whole point I have made on another thread.
If Qantas had had an efficient fleet during recent years, it would NOT have made the losses it did on international operations. As I also said, in my opinion, the investment freeze that resulted in the present fleet went back to the preparations to take the company private and strip it.
The international operation has never been as bad a business as "management" has made it out to be, one of the few aviation or financial journalists who ever called it for what it was, as opposed to re-publishing the
PR spin, was the late Ben Sandilands.
Tootle pip!!