Fine. Hope Jetstar fails. That way Qantas will have to; a) compete head-to-head against Tiger and Virgin on ALL of its routes; b) cede a massive chunk of domestic and international marketshare and; c) aggressively and unilaterally lower mainline wages and conditions to achieve a & b.
Couldnt agree more Flyingins. It would be interesting to see that. JQ fails, leaving a vastly higher cost Qantas against a bare bones Tiger, and to a large extent, DJ - without having JQ keeping the money (and market share) in the group. Any estimate on how long QF short haul would survive in it's current form?
Carnage would a word that would come to mind. Anyone care to watch another icon go the way of another full service carrier that once flew?
JQ pax are flying QF domestically. Code-share!
Cokecropduster - you do realise this is essentially because all JQ flights ADL, SYD, BNE end up in AVV, right? What - you're going to put a punter on a SYD-AVV J* domestic and then bus them to MEL for a MEL-DPS?
most QF drivers are comfortable with the principle behind J* as being a LCC but what we object to is the continued reference to how much money they make whilst mainline is 'expensive' when there are 'costs' that mainline wear that subsidise J*'s profitability.
Keg - totally mate, and look - no argument there, I can see where you're coming from. Can appreciate that, just seem to disagree with the few who believe that QF would have been potentially better off without the star than with it.