Originally Posted by booglaboy
Just to clarify Romulus, your stance is that Jq has not cannibalised Qf and forced loyal Qf pax onto the Jq flts due no choice as they still try to support Australian owned airlines?
It's like the stats we hear about Qf's declining international pax percentages,yet if u add the Jq numbers back in the number r the same. Spin and lies
Jetstar is a protective play to cover QF from low cost competitors. As such it has, contrary to Fedsec's claims, cannibalised some QF customers, but my point is that those are the customers who would otherwise have been entirely lost to an alternate LCC.
The numbers as provided by Fedsec show why this is important on certain routes. For both JAL and QF, full service carriers, numbers are down. The market is far more fractured than it was even 10 years ago. Whereas Fedsec believes ticket prices can be put up with no effect on passenger choice my position is that that level of pricing power disappeared a long time ago.