I love the “LCC need lower costs to be competitive” followed by “It is all profit, why are you worried?” comments.
QF international was lambasted a few years ago for being unprofitable while flying gas guzzlers when it should have had the new 787-8s that were initially ordered for it! (Lets not mention those old tech 777s!
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Wood for trees guys! If Jetstar needs lower costs because tickets are so cheap then imagine how much money was made to CG and Hammo etc when QF fuff fare, high yield traffic was going to those ports!
Yep, Jetstar has a place, but not at the expense of HIGH YIELD traffic. Give punters too much of a choice and they might just take the cheaper option which nets “the group” less money.
If Jetstar didn’t exist, and QF had changed a few things and expanded then the “group” would have been better off. (In my opinion)
Ask the 20+ year FOs who still cannot get an east coast command what Jetstar has cost them. (While newbies have commands at Jetstar who, in a different circumstance, would have joined the larger Qantas.)