With airlines such as Air Canada favouring Boeing for its long haul fleet with a substantial order, as well as SQ favouring the B777 over the A340 I think QF should sit up and take notice.
Sure, QF got the A330's for a substantial discount but have been let down by its own bean-counters and whoever the clowns were that selected the A330 entertainment system.
Yes, EK and CX as well as SQ are highly complimentary on the B777.
I believe also that CX did a study to ditch all of their B747-400's (turn them into freighters) in favour of B777's.
The cost saving was staggering apparently.
I reackon the A330 will go to either JetStar or Australian eventually.
Looks like the QF fleet mix will be A380/B744/B777 long haul and the B777 medium-short haul along with the B737-800 (short haul only).