...As QF have shorn themselves down to 8 international routes that means the entire fixed cost structure burden must be paid for across those 8 routes. No idea how that calculation was undertaken before the routes were deleted but I'd assume a professional organisation like QF would have done so.
Not only that, management have increased the administrative cost base by duplicating the mainline structures with the split of international & domestic! I suspect that if you can work it out, so can they and it's not by accident. What could possibly be the motive...