[Ash W]

When both Qantas and BA flew through Bangkok it was still called the Kangaroo route, and clearly bypassed Singapore and indeed the flight number for the Qantas 'flagship' Kangaroo froute flight was QF1/2 and went via Bangkok for quite some time.

To many the definiation of the Kangaroo route is any route that takes passengers from Australia (and some say NZ) to/from the UK.

Now getting to the real topic at hand it would be interesting to know why the turnaround in profits for BA and their flight via SIN. Loads were always pretty healthy before, so maybe the increase in profits are through using a more efficient a/c, compared to the 747-400's that previously operated the route and the route via BKK (though do note they did use the 777-200 in the last year or two of the Qantas JSA). Then there of course is the issue that they now only operate the one route, whereas before two, so no doubt their yeilds are up, plus I also beleive they now operate using what are called mixed crew, which have a different wage and entitlement structure, including less rest periods. On top of that I beleive the JSA with Qantas included an element of profit sharing which they now won't have to do, though by the same token they wouldn't be getting from Qantas either. So really lots of reasons why the profitability of the route has gone up not all specifically related to flying through Singapore or running 777's.