Now that Qantas+ BA has become Qantas-BA, what might be the next step?
The failure of the merger talks “at this point in time” to quote the Qantas statement is no surprise. There wasn’t a single analyst of adult age who believed it would work.
But given that Qantas is unlikely to stop scoping deals in [...]
Monthly Archives: December 2008
Qantas-BA=Why not have another crack at Air New Zealand?
December 19, 2008 – 7:02 am
Boeing avoids the ‘D’ word
December 16, 2008 – 3:49 pm
Following weekend rumors published in Flightblogger which claimed delamination of carbon fibre composites had occurred in the wing of a static test 787 a statement Boeing made to Jon Ostrower, that blog’s author, has been released to Plane Talking.
Our tests continue to confirm that the composite construction of the
787, including the wing, is sound. [...]
Rudd’s stunted vision rewards dumb carbon populism
December 16, 2008 – 8:13 am
A few weeks back Airbus sent an alternative fuels expert to Australia (Sebastian Remy) to explain how it could reduce the release of fossilised carbon from jet fuel by half by 2020, and create a major new agricultural industry that would not impact food production.
Canberra didn’t want to know. For over a year Remy’s counterpart [...]
787 wing rumor unofficially denied
December 15, 2008 – 6:26 am
OK, start breathing again. After a whole day Boeing has said nothing about the delamination rumors but Flightblogger has spoken to his sources and established they are false.
It is troubling that Boeing can’t make the effort to speak openly and accurately about this program.
Is the wing peeling apart on the 787?
December 14, 2008 – 7:56 am
Boeing must urgently address US rumors in the Seattle Post-Intelligencer and referenced on Jon Ostrower’s Flightblogger here that the wing on the static test 787 Dreamliner in Everett is delaminating.
The key weight saving feature of the 787 is the extensive use of reinforced sheets of carbon fibre bonded together with an epoxy resin [...]
But what about problems with Airbuses?
December 12, 2008 – 6:52 pm
Plane Talking has been serving it up to Boeing ever since the blog launched at the end of September.
A few retards in the juvenile aviation world have said the blog is therefore biased towards Airbus. It is always nice to hear from an aviation subset that thinks about airliners at the same level of sophistication [...]
Dreamliner latest; It’s very late
December 12, 2008 – 5:54 pm
Boeing has announced that the Dreamliner 787 will not fly until the second quarter of next year, and that the first of the ‘plastic fantastics’ will not be delivered to All Nippon Airways until sometime in the first quarter of 2010.
But on 26 September Boeing said the prototype of the medium sized twin engined jet [...]
The ACCC, petrol ‘Yes’, fuel surcharges ‘No’
December 11, 2008 – 11:39 am
The ACCC isn’t interested in the fuel surcharge ripoffs.
A spokesman says, “The ACCC doesn’t vet or approve the prices charged by airlines.
“We don’t have a role in the setting or monitoring of airline surcharges.
“If there is any evidence of false representations which could be misleading or deceptive the ACCC may have a role.”
Perhaps a fuel [...]
The robbery continues…
December 11, 2008 – 8:40 am
US reports are now predicting the oil benchmark may sag into the USD 30s band in coming days, making the continued imposition of fuel levies by airlines even more untenable than it has been since early November. This morning it was USD 43.52, weakening from a high of USD 45.26.
Keep in mind that our airlines [...]
Is suck up reporting bad for Qantas?
December 9, 2008 – 12:41 pm
Alan Joyce’s speech yesterday blaming a ‘confluence of events’ and excessive media coverage of trivial incidents poses the question as to what type of reporting Qantas really needs.
Today’s Crikey bulletin reports on the safety problems at Qantas that Joyce forgot to include during his swipe at ‘disproportionate and alarmist’ coverage.
But why did he bother? The [...]
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