Gnadenburg, I'm sure your comments are quite true regarding EK/SQ cherry picking the SYD-SIN-LHR/CDG/FRA routes. What I have problems reconciling is them cherry picking the:
SYD-SIN-
SGN/PNH/RGN/KMG/DAC/CCU/BOM/DEL/etc.......
SYD-DXB-MAN/BHX/LGW/LHR/CDG/NCE/FRA/MUC/DUS/FCO/MXP/ZRH/DME/ATH/IST/etc.......
routes.
It's quite possible that these routes are viable only because of the slave labour conditions at both these airlines. As such it's just another version of the LCC theory providing a service to the free market at the expense of........ Well the next time we all want to go on holidays let's go the long way round and support the local full service airline for a change. Now let's define service.