A real backward move here Qantas, this is definitely not how to increase your market share!  Where are you are getting your "what passengers want" advice from....?  Likely not from customers.

This is GREAT NEWS for all of us in "the forgotten state" of WA.  There is a big local market here besides the FIFO market, and I sincerely hope that Virgin is considering re-starting the Perth - Albany route, the Perth-Broome route (if it doesn't already) and if would be great to have Virgi...

Is this going to apply to Jetstar flights as well?  Over here in (forgotten) WA Qantas no longer operate some flight routes, leaving these to Jetstar to operate.  Jetstar is fine, but boarding is a bit of a shambles (and Jetstar has no supplied entertainment and a very strangely ineffic...

Over here in Perth,  WA, the forgotten state,  most people I know would dearly love to see Virgin fly Perth to Bali instead of us all having to take Jetstar.  The trip with Jetstar, although only 3 1/2 hours long, seems twice as long when there is no entertainment for the little on...

Sadly can't comment on Emirates First Class, sounds good, but taking this opportunity to say that Emirates really needs to pick up its game on the Perth-Dubai-Perth run, both in the age of the planes in use for this run (with their antiquated and impossibly slow media set-up), and the very ordina...