Condition Lever,
Personally I'm sick of the group's profits being haemorrhaged by practices that leave a serviceable A330 (with a red tail) sitting on the tarmac at Narita for the whole day.
The practice of leaving aircraft sitting around all day is just one of the many differences between "legacy" carriers and low-cost carriers. Many airlines will time their schedules to suit the premium market's demand, i.e. the SYD-NRT-SYD service leaves Sydney at 10pm and arrives in Japan early, and vice versa. Perhaps that is what business travellers want, the ability to do a full days work at either end before they depart and then when they arrive home.
Qantas do it all over the world, due to a number of factors, not the least the restrictive curfew at their main base in Sydney.
A low-cost carrier tends to work it's schedule around maximising utilisation of the aircraft and then charge punters whatever they can get to fill the seats, whatever the time of day.
What do you suggest they do with the aircraft instead?