Originally Posted by MadamRiskCulture

I am not sure whether to be annoyed, bemused or disappointed....

I recently booked an overnight business class flight from Perth to Sydney. The cost was outrageous ($4,200 one way) but I had a busy week ahead and needed to get some sleep. I foolishly assumed the plane would be an A330 and the seat would be similar to ones I'd flown on many times to Asia, especially given the price of the ticket, overnight flight, and cross-country distance. Alas no - in the Qantas plane lottery, I didn't get lucky...it was an A737. The "business class" seat was really a premium economy seat which barely reclined, the lights stayed on for half of the flight and the prison-style blanket did little to guard against the arctic cabin temperature.

For fun, I had a look to see how the cost of a similar seat (PE) on a return flight to London would cost. The answer: this Perth one-way flight cost nearly 7x the cost per flying hour as a PE seat to London and back. I'm really struggling to understand how Qantas can justify something like that.