Lets see...QF did to fly to Vancouver, Toronto(albeit briefly), Paris, Belgrade, Rome, Athens, Manchester, Amsterdam,Nadi and I am sure their are more if we went back further. SQ has 52 destinations on the 777 alone. CX, Malaysian, Thai would have a swag more destinations than QF. The thought process is to run fuel hungry (maintenance hungry) tired 744s to LAX,LHR,FRA,JNB more often and forget the rest. If you have business in Rome the answer is QF to HKG then CX to Rome. God help the next CEO, the staff will again be called upon to rescue the airline.....