ABS stats for inbound tourism show Qantas heading to the wrong destination?

[markis10]

Qantas’ decision to strengthen its ties with Dubai-based airline Emirates and scale back its relationship with British Airways has been placed under a new shadow, following the release of new travel data from the Australian Bureau of Statistics.

Over the last ten years, people from China and India more than tripled their visits to Australia breaking all previous records, according to the ABS.
Asian countries now make up seven of Australia’s top ten source countries for short-term visits, with Japan, Singapore, Malaysia, South Korea & Hong Kong featuring prominently.
“Despite a high Australian dollar, Australia’s short term visitor numbers were up by nearly five per cent since 2011 with 6.1 million short trips made to Australia – 270,000 more than we saw in 2011,” said ABS assistant director of demography, Neil Scott.

New travel data shows importance of Asia routes to Qantas

 

[harvyk]

I thought part of this change was that QF would re-time their Asian flights to be competitive for the Asian market, rather than what they are doing now which is timing their flights for ideal European connections. At least that's what the QF propaganda says...

 

[markis10]

I thought part of this change was that QF would re-time their Asian flights to be competitive for the Asian market, rather than what they are doing now which is timing their flights for ideal European connections. At least that's what the QF propaganda says...

Yep, we are sending them home earlier by 4 hours, but still making them red eye in!