I don’t think anyone is suggesting that Qantas are trying to sacrifice money just to spite Melbourne.  I think the points are that data shows that there is demand from Melbourne.  It is simply not the case that Sydney has significantly more traffic to Singapore to justify two A380...

It seems quite staggering the difference in flights and capacity between two cities that have almost identical populations.  Yes, I understand Qantas is headquartered in Sydney and for them they ideally would like people to transfer there but I just don’t buy all they say.   Qanta...

@dm12 - I’ll take the bait and kick off the ‘whinging’ for you.What I will say is that now it means no more First Class from Melbourne on Qantas with both Los Angeles and Singapore gone.  I don’t pretend to know the financials behind any of this nor question Qantas&rs...

My view might be counter to most, but this is exactly what I don’t like about Qantas.  We fly both First Class and Business Class with a variety of airlines like Singapore Airlines, Qatar, Emirates, Swiss, Qantas on occasions and others.  Irrespective of status you do feel valued ...

It is a myth that the QF3 and QF4 flights numbers used to adorn the route.  Qantas first used the flight numbers in 1974 and by that stage they had stopped flying to New York (stopped in 1973).  QF3 and QF4 flew Melbourne - Sydney - Honolulu - San Francisco and vice versa.  On some...