I see you aren't really interested in discussing the figures, only illustrating your bias.
Some more figures. The only competition the QF group has on this route is Jalways. Analysis of their figures does indeed point to a reduction of overall traffic on the Japan Australia route, but the load factors are very interesting.
In the 2008 calendar year Jalways carried 375360 Pax at an average monthly load factor of 68.6%
Australian Airlines was shutdown at the end of 2008 and replaced by Jetstar. The Jalways LF's immediately leapt.
In the 2009 calendar year Jalways carried less passengers, 279869, but at a LF of 76.5%. A jump of almost 8%. While there could be many reasons for that, the obvious one is that the Japanese do not like flying on Jetstar.
Genex in your world a car park for a business of 35,000 people may be seen as a subsidy, others may view it as a necessary expense of running business in a city like Sydney.
No SO in QF gets 150K as their base pay. If SO's are making 150K then they are doing that on LH overtime payments on top of their base pay. With other airlines crewing complements those OT payments would be getting added at Captain and FO rates. The SO is actually saving QF money.
I don't know what that has to do with looking at the comparison of QF-JQ on a route where they operate similiar equipment and one has recently assumes the routes of the other. Maybe you can explain...
