How would new aircraft fix the problem? The A330's are less than a 5 years old and are the best aircraft for Asia (where they are about to go). QF and the majority of the Asian airlines are operating them on the Australia to Asia routes.
Same goes with the NG's, most are less than 5 years old, with the older ones eventually going to Tiger.
The B777's are older than 5 years, but they are still the best aicraft for the Pacific route.
Given, the cost of fuel at the moment why purchase/lease new aicraft that will incur higher purchase/lease expenses for no real savings, as the saving in fuel costs were be outweighed by the purchase/ lease costs.
The MAX's have been deferred to next year, due to the above.
Seems a number of people on here want to see VA fall over, why is that? Did they miss out on a job at
VB/VA? The same occurred a few years back when QF was in a bad way.
Everyone seems to forget that both airlines employ a large number of Australian's, plus there are the support companies that the also employ more Australian's.
We should be happy that we do not have a monopoly or is that what everyone wants?
Nobody wants to see it fall over, which is why many are saying it's time the CEO went back to the mail room... and the media for one stopped trying the canonize him as being some sort of genius which he isn't... all the crap in the media at the time, including from Branson himself about how Qantas will rue the day they let him go. No they won't and they're not... they're probably celebrating the fact they didn't promote him. One of the reasons I think this has all gone south is because the 'strategy' from this particularly small minded person was not to beat Qantas but to 'get back at' them for denying him the job, it's certainly how it seems and his book seems to be dripping with hatred for his former employer, even saying some pretty off color and completely unsubstantiated things about a Qantas incident which almost seems actionable - surprised Qantas haven't moved on it but then again, perhaps leaving it just says more about him than them. Rumor was that he was referred to a few years back in the Qantas circles as 'mini me' as he seemed to not have a strategy, just copy everything Qantas had. Well, well done. He's now at the helm of an airline that was once profitable but now has unit costs higher than Qantas' on just about every metric. Again, no one wants to see it fall over, just to see someone who knows what they're doing take it over and save it, if indeed there's anything left to save.