Can't even cover Frankfurt with these 9 aircraft, the only ones to be left in about 18 months, once you provide for the routes SYD-LAX-JFK, BNE-LAX, SYD-SCL, SYD-JNB, SYD-DFW and vice versa, hence the mutterings about Europe is a basket case
FWIW ground staff in Frankfurt claim that QF operational contracts were renewed two weeks ago for the next two years.