A succinct point Don.
The economics on the route seem very thin.
250 passengers don't give you much flexibility.
Of course needing to fly to Perth first adds at least five hours to the journey, so it is pretty close, flight journey wise to the whole Asia Europe route. Abandoning Asian ports for a hastily and ill thought out hub that no one likes in Dubai, could well be seen another astonishing own goal from the self annoited 'dream team' in management.
As I stated before, Qantas has little footprint left internationally, exactly as they wanted when embarking on JQ the world with all its inherent rhetoric. None of it worked, Bruce departed and Qantas is a shell with lots of spin no substance. The other airlines know it and it looks like airport operators too..