Worst case scenario is getting put on a flight 45mins later or the choice of any flight of your choice within the 14day window of your travel date. JQ/DJ sure dont provide that flexibility when they change a flight. For $28, I dont think people would give really give a toss, but for a $95 Virgin fare, some would be a little more annoyed.
Absolutely right. We need Tiger around to keep these fares down, just look at the impact already. Although there still is a monopoly here. For instance you can travel from one side of the states, to the other and back for less than a one way trip on Virgin to Perth. IMO DJ have the monopoly on many routes (out of PER, BNE for example), and for their LCC style product, its quite a joke. Look at PB on New Zealand Domestic, still charging more than ANZ, sending out planes empty every day, whats the damn point?
(and I wasn't referring to docjames post ). But there are often threads that just go on about how desperate, cough etc Tiger are - which I am sure there is more than a grain of truth in these comments, but you just can't look at Tiger through the QF/DJ paradigm. They are a niche player that is not chasing the corporate buck (even MEL/SYD which I took as a move get some bucks out of the leisure market between the two cities) and have never pretended to be anything other than the "$2 shop" of airlines. I'd say FF'ers (and in particular AFF'ers) are not quite who they're catering for.... 
