More Qantas pain - and the China Southern fares are substantially lower as well. Keep refurbishing those 747's Qantas, you are going to need them to compete with slick new A380's and 787's, not to mention the Emirites, Etihad and SQ offerings. The 777-300ER - see a great deal of them whispering out of Melbourne these days - non with a red roo tail - pity.

Exactly. Strangely enough QF was part of the design consultation team on the B777 project. 

Hopefully we can see another airlines A380 into Sydney or our first B787.

On the Qantas front and hypothetically....I wonder what QF's cost base and network would have looked like if they had gone down the path of B777 aircraft.

We'd have Jetstar 777s configured similarly to Scoot ...

Well if nothing else, they'd be servicing an additional $150-200m in capital/leasing costs per piece.  You can buy a lot of fuel for that much cash.

In am really surpised with some of these posts, has anyone contributing to this  blog ever travelled CS? I have, and never again! poor service, disappointing selection of food and wines served in business class that I wouldn't have served at an Aussie beach BBQ. On the Mel/Can sector had a pax sitting next to me who like to pick his teeth and spit the items on to the floor! get real they are years away from  being a serious threat to QF and by then QF will have their 787 900.

Hi Austline, I flew to Guangzhou with CZ so we'll have a review/report on that business class flight soon.

Sorry to be a b***h, but CZ really isn't worthy of this much coverage on a site like this. Instead of doing so much talking about how wonderful they are going to be down the track, they should focus on doing something to improve their abysmal offering, then talk about it afterwards.

You'll all send this comment spiralling into the red, but you wouldn't if you'd ever flown them or knew someone who had. They are not an airline that will be a hit with the Australian business market in the same way as SQ, EK or CX have been any time soon...