Dixon's glove puppet Borghetti, when explaining why Qantas are giving the Sydney Townville route to Jet * claimed their "research" showed it to be a leisure route.
From this I suppose you determine that Qantas doesn't want to carry leisure passengers. All those people going on holidays, visiting friends and rellies can all just p*ss off, and leave Qantas to those business travellers.
Trouble is that will just leave City Flyers. And less of them too.
Borghetti obviously hasn't noticed the economic boom going on in Townsville. Or maybe he has and he's just bullsh*tting.
Any excuse to prop up Jet*.
Based on this logic anything is possible with subsidiary airlines. Any excuse will do.