Due to high fuel cost accompanied by the announcement of capacity/frequency reductions of QANTAS Group, additional information for the cuts are the folloinwg.
*Japan, reduction from current 43 weekly to 29 by the end of the year (including jetStar)
- Double Daily Tokyo – Cairns will be dropped from December 2008, replaced by jetStar Single daily
- jetStar Nagoya – Osaka – Cairns will be canceled from December 2008
- Tokyo – Melbourne 3 weekly canceled from September
- Tokyo – Sydney reduced from 9 to 7 weekly from September
- jetStar launching NEW Tokyo – Gold Coast route, it will begin 5 weekly service from October 2008
The QANTAS Group is projecting up to USD100million loss on Cairns international service for the entire FY2008, leading to the cancellation
*South East Asia
- Cancellation of jetStar 3 weekly Sydney – Kuala Lumpur
- Nonstop jetStar 3 weekly Sydney – Ho Chi Minh will be re-routed as Sydney – Darwin – Ho Chi Minh
- QANTAS service on the Perth – Denpasar and Perth – Jakarta will be transferred to jetStar
*Long-haul
- Sydney – Los Angeles will be reduced from 17 to 15 weekly with some flights operating with A380 Super Jumbo