Caversham04
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Caversham04, I was talking to someone during the week who is in a position to know how a national business is faring and he remarked to me (ranking the states) 'WA was best, followed by NSW; Vic 'fair', Qld 'not good' and then SA at the bottom, but of the two last, SA is the 'basket case.'
So if that's also true for airlines, ADL may be not doing well. However that doesn't explain why JQ moved planes and staff from DRW (it said its routes there were 'marginal' or 'among the most marginal') to ADL; nor does it explain the drop in SCs for your flights.
Meburnian1 - which industry were they referring to? The QF flights that I've taken recently have been fairly full......
Given that the fixed costs are (I would guess) a large proportion of the total cost of flying a passenger ex-ADL, surely the more bums on seats, the better? Tto me, as a Silver QFF, flying mostly on the cheaper deals - of the few routes that are still available to ADL-based flyers on Qantas, those to major destinations (i.e. State capitals) have an average reduction of approx 25% in Miles earned, with ALL routes showing a reduction, and 15% average drop in Status Credits earned (3 of the 6 routes are unchanged, so that actual effect is greater than this for the routes that are affected). Hardly much of an incentive for anyone ADL-based to continue to fly with them!