Let's be brutally honest here...... airlines don't cancel profitable routes.
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Cairns may be booming but either nobody wants to visit there (and fly CX), or not enough premium yield is coming out of FNQ to HKG.
Do you really think QF would step up given the above?
No I don’t
QFF would have an enormous capacity to observe spending mix plus correlate with how much of that is on their own services (share of wallet)
Let’s face a reality here
What’s in it for Hong Kong nationals to fly direct to Cairns?
And with just around 300,000 local to Cairns, what’s in it for them to fly to Hong Kong?
Say 200 seats a day, that’s about 75,000 PAX a year out of 300,000 just for one international location. That’s a fair ask seeing there’s only 36,000,000 IN/out PAX pa across Australia including migrants, international students plus Kiwis going back and forth, business meetings, conferences, trade shows and tourists.
A long time ago Cairns was the hub for heavy Japanese investment (golf courses, hotels etc) and a longer time before, during WW1, the President of the Senate “lived” there and took a train to Melbourne (fun fact but terribly irrelevant) and kept a house in Both Cairns and Melbourne (lollies and their earnings)
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