Article: Qantas Expects International Airfares to Come Down

[Zanzara]

QF chooses to retain it’s A380s in storage. Although there’s reports of them returning 1 to service for 2023. EY are returning their A380s on the route to LHR next year. More supply will help.

 

[SYD]

QF chooses to retain its A380s in storage. Although there’s reports of them returning 1 to service for 2023. EY are returning their A380s on the route to LHR next year. More supply will help.

Some QF A380s are already flying and x10 will return in total but no airline can just restart the engines and fly off. After such long storage, there’s months of maintenance and checks to be performed. Plus some are still pending the cabin upgrades.

EY has been very slow to commit to returning their A380s (so far only four to return). They’re probably regretting that procrastination. But still good to see them flying again in due course.

 

[OATEK]

QF chooses to retain it’s A380s in storage. Although there’s reports of them returning 1 to service for 2023. EY are returning their A380s on the route to LHR next year. More supply will help.

I understood that only one or two QF A380s are left in storage, the other 8? either back or being prepared for return, and 2 scrapped. So definitely when QF have to fill 10 A380s, fares will respond to the increasing supply of seats. But @jpp42 is right to point out the lost capacity of the Chinese airlines. I had used CX for about 70-80% of flights out/in to Oz, and about 50% connecting with AY. I could regularly get J fares $1.5-$2k below QF. But here we are with QF cheaper than CX/AY - go figure! We need more supply, and QF has never been a big enough player to make that much difference.