Its gone "tits" purely because they were not allowed to serve
Dehli from Manchester....
They could not get a licence from Manchester as the bilterals do not allow this ...that is why they cannot start, serving Delhi was an instrumental part of the plan !
QANTAS have no intention of serving Manchester, the current feeder flights are simply to protect/reserve slots out of LHR.
When they have aircraft available they will stop the Manchester flights and start new yet more flights using these additional slots EX HEATHROW to Australia via Hong Kong...
A nice cosy cartel.........!!!!!
Essentially we will end up with 8 flights a day London to Australia and the Manchester feeder service will disappear.......its a total waste of space anyway !
The only bright news is that both QANTAS and and BA are losing many thousands of pax, who now fly EMIRATES, QATAR, SIA and MAS all of whom offer direct through service to Australia and avoid the mire that is the South East.