Originally Posted by
B772
f1yhigh: An airline will always use the aircraft with the lowest trip cost commensurate with the payload/range required.
Suffice to say that the 747s will not be flying anytime soon then, despite the low fuel costs. Albeit personally I would have thought it would have been less expensive in the short-medium term for QF to throw the 747 crew a bone by chucking a few flights every once in a while. Evidently that's not the case.