Steelcraft you sucker. I said that half-in-jest, but you just had to have a go didn't you. Perhaps there were other considerations, but if I were planning it, from an operational point of view, it couldn't be done much better than the way AN is doing it. After all, the aim is to carry the most passengers, is it not? Or are you of the brigade that airlines would be far better off without areoplanes, pilots and passengers?
QF obviously had a major change of heart
(or were convinced) and now don't mind KNX being done the AN way because they used to run the Airlink schedule totally the opposite.