teiemka, OK, how do we square that with this statement:
Originally Posted by Alan Joyce
The Asian airline is actually going to recover our share of the market into Asia. At the moment we need to recover the traffic that has gone to Cathay Pacific, Singapore Airlines, Malaysia—it is not travelling with Qantas today. In fact, as you know we only have 18 per cent market share—82 of every 100 travelling Australians travel on another airline. We need to recover that. And it is even worse in Asia. So we need an Asian hub.
Air Navigation and Civil Aviation Amendment (Aircraft Crew) Bill 2011, Qantas Sale Amendment (Still Call Australia Home) Bill 2011
FRIDAY, 4 NOVEMBER 2011
AJ just seems not to mention the Jetstar contribution at all. Is it part of the Qantas, the Qantas Group or operating on its own? Is Jetstar one of the "other airlines".
The justification for the Asian hub is that 82 per cent of the market travel on other airlines, whilst not mentioning the additional 8 per cent traveling on his "other airline" of which he has diverted capacity, deliberately muddying the waters to obfuscate the issue.
The load factors for Qantas are high. The question is, if Jetstar international had not been started, what would been the percentage be? I put it to you it would be very close to the 27~28 per cent. Passengers are choosing to fly Qantas internationally, however,
they are being denied the ability to do so in greater numbers through a policy of deliberately reducing available capacity.