Darwin delivers poor returns to Qantas - it is a leisure route and that is why TT touch it seasonally...
Tell that to the many mining industry and assciated support industry employees up there that deserve a lot better.
And what's the point to JQ's low fares when you buy one, organise business around it, and then JQ cancels the flight because they don't like the load factor that day. Too bad, so sad you might say.
Hopefully under new management, Virgin blue will be able to reap rewards out of the QF/JQ second class treatment of the people of Darwin and the Northern territory.