Qantas CEO Alan Joyce said the changes would allow the airlines to each leverage their network strengths; Emirates with its Dubai hub and Qantas with its dominant position in Australia. "We wouldn't be extending for another five years if we weren't getting a win out of it and Emirates certainly wouldn't be." "Increasingly it is Qantas driving the Emirates partnership," the CAPA Centre for Aviation wrote in a research note in August. The airlines said in August Qantas would stop flying to London via Emirates' Dubai hub when the alliance was renewed. Qantas said it would add more flights from Melbourne and Brisbane to Auckland to partially make up for the loss of capacity.

Source: Bangkok Post October 11, 2017 03:33 UTC