If Qantas were so great and competitive, there'd be no Jetstar.
Please don't get personal. The statement above is, with the greatest respect, inaccurate.
Jetstar is purely used to extract cash from Qantas.
And $200k Sandwich eaters are very good value for money (though I doubt the 200k figure, lets say $150-180MAX!?) because otherwise you have 2 complete crews. That is another issue.
Jetstar is nothing about efficiency (if it was it would be making money) it is about cash extraction and creating off book tradeable entities. I put it to you that Tiger would not, could not compete with QF, because, as our idiot board and senior management do not realise, people actually like going to MEL when they want to go to MEL and sitting in a reasonable seat. Completely different market. Not everyone is a backpacker. If it was only Tiger to compete with, you probably would have had QF management working on the company as opposed to financial shenanigans.