we won't put the Qantas code share on our flights
"We'd take the Qantas code off and you know what that will do?"
I'll tell you what it will do Bruce:
1) It will stop the situation were people buy a Qantas ticket and end up on a Jetstar aeroplane. There is story upon story of some seriously pi%%ed off passengers put in this situation, of course that is a problem for Qantas not Jetstar, so Bruce doesn't care.
2) It will reduce your revenue from this dodgy practice. It will improve the Qantas image and reputation by finally stoping this stupid underhanded method of selling a "QF" flight and stop the gifting of passengers to our competition. How many of the Qantas passengers that end up on a Jetstar flight say "never again". A lot.
3) The cannibalisation (that was never supposed to happen) might be arrested. Qantas (the airline that used to regularly make between $600 to $1400 Million) might actually get back some of its own flying and stop deceiving people into flying on your bastard child.
4) The golden opportunity for dodgy revenue transfer will be severely reduced, suddenly you might have to justify your own existence.
No, Bruce, the QF code share on your flights is all one way as far as benefits go. It is all good for Jetstar and all bad for QF.
If you look at the dynamics of the reverse where the JQ code is on QF flights it is not surprising that again all the benefits are for Jetstar.
The whole operation is a parasite.
