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Old 23rd Aug 2014, 22:41
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Keg

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Many, many lines have been written here stating that people will pay a premium to fly with Qantas......it just isn't so.
It seems that Alan Joyce, Strambi, Evans, the demonstrated behaviour of the travelling public and the QF domestic results for the last decade would indicate you're wrong. Quite obviously people actually do pay a premium.

Whether that premium is enough to cover costs or to make an acceptable profit is another discussion entirely but your baseline premise is fundamentally flawed.
Of course, whether they will continue to pay the necessary premium for domestic to remain in profit when there is no difference in product with the retirement of the 767 and the proliferation of 737s on the triangle is also a different discussion but one worth having.

I do like the subsequent straw man of AJ being solely to blame. That's a nice bit of verballing of the staff at Qantas but as ignorant as your comment about people not paying a premium. That you follow it up with yet another one about Qantas staff not 'embracing change' is also great work.

In short, those who know little about the internal workings of Qantas, it's staff and what they have done in the past or have offered to do in the future, should keep their mouths shut lest the demonstrate to all their complete and utter ignorance.

The irony of course is you sitting at your computer blaming people for a multitude of alleged actions that you have no clue about whilst using a 'sitting at your computer' line to peddle a falsehood. You'll need to do better than that champ because those of us at the coal face can see right through you.
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