Meanwhile, Qantaslink has seen substantial growth across the network. Additional engineering capacity has been put on with plenty of training being given out to try and catch up with demand.
If you call replacing Qanas services with Qanaslink "growth". Hobart, for example, as seen such a situation. Pretending to offer Qantas services and then swap to Qantaslink is plain dumb. The customers know what's going on and are voting with their feet to fly Virgin. Naturally this will compound the problem and serves nicely to assist management in extracting themselves from "non profitable routes".