murgatroid
WRONG. Your biggest mistake is to assume that empty seats means spare or unused capacity. It doesn’t, particularly on sectors that are 8+ hours in length where most carriers to and from Australia use spare belly capacity to carry substantial amounts of freight. I regularly operate aircraft into and out of Australia that have 100+ seats spare but we are take-off weight limited. We aren’t the only carrier like this either. Mates at QF and EK say they are the same.
Taildragger67
There are two reasons why we are stuck with the airbus into Australia. They are:
1. based crews are all Airbus and
2. yield management.