Melburnian1
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How dependent are QFi and VAi on bookings that originate in Australia as opposed to those originating overseas?
Does it vary markedly by route, such as QFi flights to PVG mostly carrying mainland Chinese travellers who book in tour groups and not many Australians travelling for business or leisure, a marked number of Japanese schoolchildren on exchange coming down to SYD on the QFi flight from NRT versus the QFi BKK flights being mostly patronised by Australians heading for a Thai, Laotian or Cambodian holiday, or the VAi APW flights being full of Pacific Islanders who now live and work in Australia and hence their bookings commence from Oz and not from the Pacific Islands?
Is for instance QFi heavily dependent on Australian-originating bookings to LAX, JFK, DXB and LHR because of its higher profile in Oz than it has even in English-speaking nations such as the USA and the UK?
One assumes that both QFi and VAi are less well known to residents of other nations (particularly VAi) than their 'home' airlines such as NZ around the Pacific, MU in PVG, CX in HKG and so on. It is also complicated by airlines having codeshares: QF's tieup with MU is one example, VA with EY on the AUH route another.
it's not as simple as counting the number of Caucasians on board a flight and assuming that all are Australian citizens, and nor could one assume that every non-Caucasian on board is not an Australian citizen and hence will have had their travel commence overseas.
Does it vary markedly by route, such as QFi flights to PVG mostly carrying mainland Chinese travellers who book in tour groups and not many Australians travelling for business or leisure, a marked number of Japanese schoolchildren on exchange coming down to SYD on the QFi flight from NRT versus the QFi BKK flights being mostly patronised by Australians heading for a Thai, Laotian or Cambodian holiday, or the VAi APW flights being full of Pacific Islanders who now live and work in Australia and hence their bookings commence from Oz and not from the Pacific Islands?
Is for instance QFi heavily dependent on Australian-originating bookings to LAX, JFK, DXB and LHR because of its higher profile in Oz than it has even in English-speaking nations such as the USA and the UK?
One assumes that both QFi and VAi are less well known to residents of other nations (particularly VAi) than their 'home' airlines such as NZ around the Pacific, MU in PVG, CX in HKG and so on. It is also complicated by airlines having codeshares: QF's tieup with MU is one example, VA with EY on the AUH route another.
it's not as simple as counting the number of Caucasians on board a flight and assuming that all are Australian citizens, and nor could one assume that every non-Caucasian on board is not an Australian citizen and hence will have had their travel commence overseas.
