Having Jetstar operate the CNS-DRW-SIN service is causing major problems for QF pax. I was stopped in the SIN terminal last week by a female pax (of German origin) and she said that she had just arrived off the Jetstar flight from Cairns and she had been told at check-in in Cairns that she could not be booked through to Frankfurt on QF5 as the Jetstar Reservation system was incompatible (with just about every other airline) and that she would have to re-check in SIN. She thought that she was flying on a QF service ex CNS and as Tropicalchief said
"Jetstar Asia flights are minimallly booked and generally with people from Europe who have been duped into believing they were travelling on QF services".
She went to the transfer desk but was very concerned about whether her bag would be transferred considering the minimalist service that Jetstar provides. She was also quite tall and did not enjoy the cramped seating conditions on the Jetstar Asia aircraft.
Qantas is doing an injustice to European visitors to Northern Australia by not providing a full service operation from CNS and DRW to SIN.