Know little about AJ's plea for money Blown, but the following article suggests he isn't going to find it cheap to source.
Dow Jones Newswires
QANTAS passenger numbers in August rose by 6 per cent from a year ago, but Jetstar more than doubled its international passenger load.
Capacity cuts at Qantas helped its revenue seat factor - the measure of how many seats it fills across its fleet - improve by 2.8 points to 80.5 per cent.
Qantas carried 3.4 million passengers across its domestic and international networks in August, as capacity - measured by available seat kilometres - fell by 4.8 per cent from a year ago.
International passenger numbers on its discount airline, Jetstar, more than doubled to around 325,000, but its mainline international passenger numbers fell by 26 per cent to around 466,000.
Qantas said its domestic yields for the two months to August were 13 per cent lower than a year ago, with international yields down 23 per cent.
And the union didn't go down to the wire.
