Deathstar to fly to Tokyo
Under the new arrangements, if JQ tickets SYD-CNS-NRT are sold much cheaper than QF tickets SYD-NRT, then the next thing the loads on mainline will drop (as people will put up with a transit stop to save bucks), then SYD-NRT will end-up Deathstar as well.
And the 'new' JQ services SYD-OOL-KIX-OOL-SYD are really just the former triangular SYD-KIX-BNE-SYD flights redirected.
QF have never understood the JP market, and have only survived due to All Nippon AIrways and Ansett pulling out of the market, and the fact that JAL fly their 'JALways' (inferior subsidiary, Thai cabin crewed, HNL pilots and worn-out aircraft) product here a lot rather than mainline JAL.