Originally Posted by notsosmart
I would think that the US eastern seaboard could help support a NYC-SYD route, if not our little podunk town of 8+ million.
If that were true, I suspect that QF would be operating more than its current frequency of 4 x 744 a week - the economics of which are apparently only feasible because of the cargo load, which of course cares little about whether it flies one-stop or non-stop. Pax loads are not that good, and of course some of the pax load gets distributed at LAX to non-SYD flights (ie AKL, BNE and MEL).