Qantas is an easy target and I guess it's fashionable to rubbish an airline that's managed to stay operational while many others have gone down the gurgler.
It's very true that it isn't the airline it was twenty years ago, but then not many are. Times are a changing...Live with it.
I'd be interested to see what airlines get much more than 47%, and other than rich oil state owned airlines, how many will be around in a few years time.
Times are different and any airline that doesn't keep VERY tight controls on spending will simply evaporate and having flown with most, I can still say that Qantas is up there with the best of them.
Sydney airport is a different matter, but even there, it isn't as bad as many, Le Bourget, Charles De Gaulle, LHR, Frankfurt, Jakarta, Schipol to name a few.
The biggest problem in Sydney is the problem caused by a combination of the curfew, Customs and worst of all, AQUIS who are so undermanned it's not funny.