Qantas managed to grab the vast majority of domestic business travel after the collapse of Ansett. They were never going to capture as big a slice of low yield traffic and nor should they have tried.
VB had been promised a helping hand from the Howard Government and was ready to swing into action to pick up the nickel and dime traffic left over.
QF has grown its international operation significantly in the past decade which has little to do with the AN collapse. AN International had very little international traffic.
QF has grown internationally during a period when many similar carriers have not. It has made significant profits when many similar carriers have not. And its staff have reaped the rewards of continued employment and promotion.
Can anybody here present data to contradict this. Financial losses. Fleet reductions. Capacity contraction. Employee retrenchments. Anything.