If you think there is a risk of hard times sending Qantas and Virgin Blue broke, think again.
It is their employees who risk going broke instead. The two major carriers will sit on as much of their cash reserves as possible and put however much of their fleets they need to ‘up against the fence’. [...]
Monthly Archives: September 2008
Cash but no carry
September 30, 2008 – 1:04 pm
Good idea, wrong result
September 30, 2008 – 12:23 pm
This mostly matters to those who don’t like flying at the best of times and have to use crappy country airstrips like the ones the pilots of a larger airliner would only contemplate if they were on fire.
Navigating into rough strips like the one at Lockhart River where Transair hit a hill on approach killing [...]
Fear, loathing and stupidity at Brisbane airport
September 29, 2008 – 7:51 am
Brisbane airport last night was a perfect reminder that Australia relies on implausible scenarios, imperfectly screened, to create an impression that air travel is secure.
Early in the evening a number of Qantas passengers, the Courier-Mail says there were only three of them, reached their departure gates in the ‘airside’ part of the terminal without [...]
Qantas under the Joyce stick
September 26, 2008 – 1:31 pm
The Joyce age at Qantas is under way.
There was no surprise in the appointment of Bruce Buchanan his loyal deputy attitude adjuster at Jetstar as his replacement as the low cost unit’s chief executive officer. Buchanan came to Jetstar when it launched in 2004 from five years in the Boston Consulting Group’s travel and tourism [...]
Boeing’s Dreamliner trapped on Second Earth
September 26, 2008 – 8:47 am
Boeing’s Dreamliner project set a new marker for fantasy overnight when launch customer All Nippon Airways said it had reached agreement to take delivery of the first of the plastic twin engined 300 passenger airliners next August.
The 787-8 prototype has yet to fly. It has a flight test schedule of nine months. It has to [...]
Hello everybody, big jet coming through
September 26, 2008 – 8:24 am
Up until midnight there had been 69 declarations this month of zones in the sky over Australia where normal air traffic control was unavailable to airliners, air freighters and private aircraft capable of using the same air space. The position of the Minister for Infrastructure and Transport, Anthony Albanese is that this is a [...]
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