Why is QANTAS more expensive

[serfty]

I have to correct myself, the UA lounge in melbourne is gone, there are no paid lounges airside at international airports in Australia.

I saw it a few weeks ago.

united.bomb indicates it's still there:

• United Airlines - Red Carpet Club: Melbourne

It's also listed as a Priority Pass option:

• Non-Members Lounge Details

 

[markis10]

I saw it a few weeks ago.

united.bomb indicates it's still there:

• United Airlines - Red Carpet Club: Melbourne

It's also listed as a Priority Pass option:

• Non-Members Lounge Details

Hmm, I saw a comment on FT that it was closed, and a post yesterday seemed to support that indicating the SQ lounge had a sign saying for United customers to go to the Air NZ lounge. It could well be that the reports are from days where there was a cancelled UA MEL-SYD leg??

 

[PineappleSkip]

I would not be surprised if QF have put the fare up as they dont wont to sell any more seats but are still part of the agreement contractually wise, there is certainly no incentive for them.

I'd put it slightly differently; QF have no interest in selling seats on this sector so they price them high, and if they do sell any seats then they make a handsome profit.

Sometimes it works the other way. When QF launched their PNG website they priced their lowest online fares well below what PX were offering, I suspect because they realised they were missing out on online bookings out of PNG and wanted to increase market share. Similarly they undercut PX and CG when they introduced their CNS-POM service.

Cheers skip

 

[Hermes]

I'd put it slightly differently; QF have no interest in selling seats on this sector so they price them high, and if they do sell any seats then they make a handsome profit.

QF still has great interest in selling seats on the old Kangaroo route, but they are the most expensive way to do it, at least in J. We're about to do MEL-LHR via HKG and HEM with Cathay and Finnair for more than $8000 less than QF.

 

[Hermes]

And since CX and AY are oneworld, and we're using CX and AY metal, we get FF points and SCs the same as if we were flying QF. It takes a few hours longer, but for a saving of $8K+ it's worth it.

 

[gsri9]

Is it worth it, who knows, its jsut the same as Woolies selling food for 25% more in a supermarket in the next suburb, horses for courses?

I would not be surprised if QF have put the fare up as they dont wont to sell any more seats but are still part of the agreement contractually wise, there is certainly no incentive for them.

Would be interesting to know what Qantas gets out of being part of a codeshare arrangement? Is it a fixed fee, a royalty per ticket sold etc. If they are not interested in selling tickets at a reasonable price, it must be a fixed fee arrangement per year...they have already made their money (having achieved a minimum sales level) and want to have no more variable costs.

 

[markis10]

Would be interesting to know what Qantas gets out of being part of a codeshare arrangement? Is it a fixed fee, a royalty per ticket sold etc. If they are not interested in selling tickets at a reasonable price, it must be a fixed fee arrangement per year...they have already made their money (having achieved a minimum sales level) and want to have no more variable costs.

In the case of the OP I suspect the price was jacked up while they waited to work out what they were doing, now that pax are being rebooked on the non codeshare numbers I am sure they did not want to hassle more people than they had to. Codeshares offer an airline a virtual aircraft they can sell seats on, in theory they make it a more seamless experience for the traveller, in reality the dont offer the traveller much now that we have interlining and etickets.

 

[ozbeachbabe]

Would be interesting to know what Qantas gets out of being part of a codeshare arrangement? Is it a fixed fee, a royalty per ticket sold etc.

In the 'olden days' with QF/BA codeshares eg SIN/LHR if it was BA metal, they got 67% of the revenue with QF getting 33% & vice versa.