As much as this is not a good thing, it seems those in charge think otherwise - including the Cairns airport manager and Tourism Tropical North Queensland chief.
They seem to be blinded by the extra seats and lure of getting more mums and dads up to (or in the case of international flights, down to) Cairns. Seems they are also confident that those extra seats will be filled easily (cf. if the business community all defect to VA, obviously there is going to be less seats filled on those JQ flights and a JQ revenue crisis).
Why isn't anyone from the Cairns business community saying anything about this (or all the media outlets decided not to publish anything which comes from them)? Or, even the mayor of Cairns or the local council? The latter's hide rests on the power of business and thus communications and connections. dfcatch can't be the only Cairns local who cares about this.