"Then Jetstar could give all those clapped out A330's back to Qantas."
They are not old aircraft so why are they clapped out?
VH-EBA (First revenue service SYD-MEL 28 December 2002)
VH-EBB (First revenue service MEL-SYD 9 January 2003)
VH-EBC (First revenue service MEL-PER 18 March 2003)
VH-EBD (First revenue service MEL-SYD 26 April 2003)
These were initially received by QANTAS and then handed to Jetstar for their international routes, which have slowly eroded QANTAS International. I don't have the hours and cycles on hand, but can easily get them.
Going by AJ's statistics of the average age of the fleet being 8.3 years, these are old aircraft.
Then we have VH-EBJ June 2008, VH-EBK August 2008, VH-EBQ March 2011, VH-EBR October 2011 and VH-EBS November 2011. These ones not so old, but will need a lot of work to reconfigure them for QANTAS operations.
It ain't the 787 that has stuffed the expansion plans of jetstar international into Europe and the USA. It's the fact they won't make as much money as a premium carrier.
Emirates have done that, and the fact that people simply don't want to fly Jetstar. It looks like a cheap airline and is promoted as a cheap airline, but people want that little bit more. For example, the HNL sector from Sydney, Jetstar is now flying daily and QANTAS 3x weekly. QANTAS is very much full and yet there are plenty of seats on Jetstar. Mainland USA, Jetstar will fail based on its current model. Europe, why fly Jetstar when you can get a ticket for about the same price and fly Emirates, Virgin, SQ, TG, CX, etc?
the amount of money that is being wasted in fuel bills by the 744 and 380 is appalling. The 777 with a red tail would have given the group $300M more profit. That figure grows rapidly depending upon how many 777 replace 744. The group will get as many 777 as they can afford but it'll be to replace gas guzzlers not for expansion.
That just goes to show the incompetence and arrogance of both the previous and current management. All the smart airlines got 777's and are getting the 747-800's and even the 787's. If things go to plan, QANTAS International will have just a fleet of 12 A380's by 2020.
AJ has pledged to turn around QF mainline to profitability within three years.
If he fails to do so he's gone, so there has to be some sort of major shakeup & soon.
That's why he has Strambie as CEO of Domestic and Hickey as CEO of International. Should either of those two fail, they'll be gone, not Joyce, and the board will remain intact to hammer the final nail into QANTAS International.