How long have the accounting practices been like this, if this is how they have calculated pax figures since Jetstar have started operations then surely the year on year increases are valid to a certain extent because they are using the same datum. If however the accounting practices have been changed this year to make the figures look better on this single occassion then that is a worry. So the 'Qantas' man says that this is the way the figures have been calculated every year.... if this is the case I can't see what all the excitment is about
Also as stated above, all this information was there for anyone to discover, it is stated in the reports (albeit in small print) exactly what has been included in these 'international' figures. As Kremlin has shown it is all there for anyone to see if they look hard enough, hardly a big conspiracy that some are making it out to be. I certainly am not naive enough to believe the stats and figures that are presented to the public daily, by business, government etc... Did anyone see the latest crime figures issued in New Zealand, overall crime was down but on closer inspection year on year violent crime was up 20%, you can make a statistic say anything depending on how you calculate it. Were Jetstar Int. pax up from last year.... probably, were they up 70%..... who the hell knows without a forensic audit of the books.