...as Qantas has repeatedly said, it will not get new routes or planes until it makes a profit without them. Its a kind of Zen thing, i guess.
Joyce has ditched many profitable routes in the past few years...every route that they try to restart will have more drag in the market. Once you win passengers' loyalty then abandon them you do not get them back. We had India before, and PER internationals and Aukland-LAX. And robust European routes.
They ditched all of that and replaced them with....new uniforms.