Astroboy 55
Can't see Adelaide going in this round, but for sure if Cobham can acquire some more 717s, put business class seats in them, then I have no doubt the days of Qantas mainline at Townsville and Cairns are numbered!
Plan B could be to retrofit business into some existing 717s, move them east and replace them in the west with displaced 738s from the east.
There has long been rumours of a mainline pullback to the main cities,
Perth/Adelaide/Melbourne/Sydney/Brisbane,
Re 926/927, as has been often mentioned on these forums actual loads don't mean good yield or profit on a particular route.