Not a regular poster but from a pax side of view. I recently booked a trip to Europe for the family. I went to two different Flight centre offices and were basically told the same thing "Last resort would be to fly Qantas" said with a fair degree of disdain. You would think that Qantas would be trying to fix something like that if they were keen on attracting international passengers because it's obviously what FC staff have been prepped to say.