Not necessarily. Many business travel trips are booked through travel agents. Note that the article states this new "Lite" fair is only bookable through Virgin direct, and not through TAs. Unless this changes, it won't be presented as an option for many business travellers.

Might be some problems with their yield management or routing operations as figures have it at least as good on fuel economy as the twins when loaded at capacity. And it's not as though Emirates were bleeding financially despite it being the majority of their fleet.Of course if you load it at hal...

Playing the long game. If you're a member more than 5 years, they're ahead.And I doubt "new Qantas Club members will pay significantly less overall under the revised fee scale." is generally true, as I'd expect most are members for more than 5 years.

They're flying planes Virgin used up to last year. Virgin didn't have an exceptional number of cancelled flights of mechanical delays.

Given it was over 6 years ago, it's far from "swooping" and actually from Westjet, not Qantas.