Hi All,
Qantas has the aircraft to grow, but they tried to use the wrong type of aircraft for given routes.
Eg. B744 to San Francisco and to Rome.
Routes from Melbourne to San Francisco via Honolulu, Rome via Singapore, Johannesburg via Perth, Mumbai via Singapore, and Vancouver via Auckland are all in Range of an Airbus A330 Aircraft.
There was also a market for flights to Vancouver via HNL ex YMML.
There are more foreign tails at YMML than QF ones.
EK 3 Times Daily
SIA 3 sometimes 4 times Daily
CX 3 Times Daily
MH 3 Times Daily
No wonder QF going down the drain.
Also - I think Qantas has lost the Plot!!
There have been more Uniform Changes over the past 15 years than it needed to be, thus wasting money it doesn't need to waste. Every change in Uniform must cost many millions of dollars, including paying Top Designers thousands to do the work.
If you look at Emirates and Singapore Airlines, their uniforms haven't changed a great deal, if any, while Qantas Uniforms have had major makeovers.
As for the current ad, well that is the worst ad I seen. It doesn't make me want to fly with Qantas at all!! And that was the point of the ad, to bring customers to want to make them fly Qantas.
The whole Qantas board needs to be Sacked for the way they have allowed the Airline to run itself into the ground and also for approving this current ad. Qantas has reduced their overseas network of destinations because of poor choice in buying the wrong type of aircraft, and yet they expect customers to fly with them, when they have cut the very routes customers want to fly to.
In closing, why didn't Qantas buy the B777-200LR??
This could have been a Premium (First, Business and Prem Econ) Long Haul Service Ex YMML and SYD via Perth to LHR - Both ways and also a second LAX service for YMML.
These are my own opinions
Stuart
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