Let's summarise the above posts.
1 QF have cancelled a few flights... Been done before, will be done again.
2 Allan shot himself in the foot with his deal re EK. This has been discussed ad nauseum
since the deal was made. Old news.
3 as the British say, the Arabs are in the Middle East; singapore and Thailand etc are in the Far East. What they both have in common is that they are all Asians. Yes, Arabs are Asians, just a lot further away from Oz.
I only found this out a few years ago myself. I didn't even realise that the Pakkies and Indians were Asian.
Just out of interest, where do the Maoris fit in?