Qantas to lay out roadmap for restart of international flights

[Xeptu]

Originally Posted by compressor stall

Always the patriot sandgroper. Your last sentence is the only cogent bit.

For a start I am not based in WA these days, but am well connected to its political circles. Secondly the last sentence is all that matters in Australia.

[Xeptu]

Originally Posted by CaptCloudbuster

Wrong, just plain wrong.

Two of the busiest air routes in the world are found in Australia.

As you would expect in such small aircraft, over the longest routes in the world.

[CaptCloudbuster]

Always got an answer to everything X, haven’t you.

[MickG0105]

Originally Posted by Xeptu

As you would expect in such small aircraft, over the longest routes in the world.

"Busiest" is measured in passenger numbers not flights, so aircraft size is immaterial. As to "the longest routes in the world" we're taking about SYD-MEL and SYD-BNE; of the top 20 they rank 16th and 17th for route length.

[B772]

QF need further flying and hopefully profits urgently to stem the current losses and a negative return on equity (-335%). Debt to equity ratio is now 1323.6% and with negative cash flow debt is not well covered. Short term assets of $3.4B do not cover the short term liabilities of $7.6B. Ouch.

[MickG0105]

Originally Posted by B772

... Short term assets of $3.4B do not cover the short term liabilities of $7.6B.

That roughly 2-ish : 1 current liabilities to current assets ratio is nothing new for QF; it has bounced around 2 : 1 for the past five or six years. It does take on a different shade with the current cash flow issues.

[LapSap]

Originally Posted by MickG0105

"Busiest" is measured in passenger numbers not flights, so aircraft size is immaterial. As to "the longest routes in the world" we're taking about SYD-MEL and SYD-BNE; of the top 20 they rank 16th and 17th for route length.

Well that's not the definition OAG are using- they use number of flights.

[MickG0105]

Originally Posted by LapSap

Well that's not the definition OAG are using- they use number of flights.

No, OAG don't use flights; they use seats.

Methodology
The busiest air routes are defined as those with the largest volume of scheduled airline seats in the current calendar month.

Source

It takes about a second of reasoning to conclude that using flights would provide utterly meaningless comparative data.

[Bad Adventures]

2 A380’s back by April for SYD/LAX

https://www.executivetraveller.com/n...itP0ZB8XruoDTw

[thisishardtochoose]

QF Starting bringing back SYD-DEL flights from 6th December with the A330

[wobblymammall]

What’s happening with flight prices for this international restart. $7500 return for two people too LA in December and January are really going to hinder the want to get out and travel

[C441]

Originally Posted by wobblymammall

What’s happening with flight prices for this international restart. $7500 return for two people too LA in December and January are really going to hinder the want to get out and travel

A quick look online suggests a direct SYD - LAX return from mid December ranges from $2500-3000 per person depending on the airline. Not unreasonable in the circumstances I would have thought.