And the situation will continue until Qantas lowers it cost base, and can increase its yield.
There is no way Qantas can afford the Capital Expenditure required to replace the B747's with B777's until the above happens.
Sorry guys, but your current costs are too high, and your product and its marketing isn't attracting enough Business and First Class passengers to the airline.
Qantas and its employees need to change to suvive.
The problem is that when someone says "your costs are too high" and "you need to change" they only refer to the operational staff - the LAMES, The Pilots and FA's.
This completely ignores the thousands of staff having coffee and meetings each day at the QC precinct in Mascot.
This also completely ignores the millions upon millions of dollars paid to Boston Consulting Group, Bain & Co and Oldmeadow Consulting. In the case of the latter, this consultants business model is designed to ensure ongoing conflict between the workforce and management.
This also ignores the 140 million being currently pi$$ed away building a new 'corporate campus' at mascot (at the expense of crew parking of course) at a time where SLIC would have us believed that the bankruptcy of the group is not far around the corner.
It also ignores the setting up of the new 'Qantas Strategy Department' - staffed almost entirely by ex Bain & Co personnel, the majority of whom are on 6 figures and the 'super executive' staff travel benefit scheme.
All of this is against the complete and utter failure of the business strategy as so succinctly outlined by Ben Sandliands.
The great tragedy of all this is that when Qantas fails (and I believe that is inevitable now given all of the above) it is the hardworking operational staff who will be blamed. The true culprits will escape to their next big payday