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Can't plan to do a fuel stop? It's called a SLIP!
Please don't tell me this service wouldn't be economical if QF had to actually put those pesky crew up in a NAN hotel for 48 hrs. Disregarding any crew benefit, QF might actually to able to get a full commercial load from DFW to SYD, bags included!
BNE is a nonsense - still a tad too far and the suits don't want to go there anyway - they want to go to SYD or MEL. I have been directly told that by a top-end-of-town guy. They like SYD-DFW (and then maybe onto an east coast US city such as NYC, Washington or Boston) but won't go (east coast US city)-DFW-BNE-SYD when coming home, they will go (east coast US city)-LAX-SYD.
This service should be SYD-DFW and then DFW-NAN-SYD.
Time will tell as to whether it changes. But I can just hear AJ saying: "Oh no, if we actually have to spend money on hotels and allowances it wouldn't be returning the cost of capital, blah blah blah....!"