Your quite right Shon 7 of course they go for the cheaper airline, no different to me going to Bunnings then the more expensive privately run hardware shop down the road, but for some inexplicable reason I still like the hardware shop down the road, and admire the bloke for still battling Bunnings up the road...
How exactly would you sustain QF on the international side where it is losing tons of money. As I said before, all this nationalistic talk goes out the window if you ask people whether they are ok with their taxes being raised to support the airline.