Interesting article but they got a bit of it wrong. From what I know (and I'm happy to be proven wrong!), QF don't pay allowances and accommodation for any BNE resided cabin crew in Sydney. They don't fly them down at all. The saving is all about the BNE-HKG and SIN-HKG type services that generate over nights in BNE for Sydney based crew that now won't be needed.
Methinks Crikey got this one wrong! Any other takers or does QF have a BNE base already that I don't know about?!?!
