Don’t you just hate having to walk through a Qantas domestic business class cabin to the crush in economy?
Well the hate, if that’s how you feel, is going to be over fairly soon.
Far too few business travellers are actually paying business class fares. Many of them are on corporate accounts that Qantas secured by discounting [...]
Monthly Archives: April 2009
Business travel is getting meaner and tighter
April 17, 2009 – 9:34 am
Qantas blood letting to continue until things improve
April 14, 2009 – 4:06 pm
The management blood bath at Qantas today could be a long overdue change to its corporate culture, or a big mistake.
Whichever it proves to be, it’s happening quickly under new CEO Alan Joyce.
The executive cadre that his predecessor Geoff Dixon set up is in tatters, what is left of it. Joyce is saying things no [...]
Qantas defers 16 jets and fires another 500 top managers
April 14, 2009 – 10:01 am
Qantas this morning cut its estimated profit before tax for the full year to June 30 from previous guidance of $500 million to between $100-200 million.
At the lower limit, this approaches the Virgin Blue guidance for its profits from domestic and regional international flights for the same year before taking on board heavy costs [...]
Qantas reports 737 malfunction similar to the one implicated in a recent crash at Amsterdam
April 13, 2009 – 6:12 pm
Air Transport World’s Australian correspondent Geoffrey Thomas is reporting that a Qantas 737-800 approaching Sydney on 7 April suffered a similar malfunction to the one implicated in the Turkish Airlines fatal accident at Amsterdam’s Schiphol airport on 25 February.
The ATW report available in full to its subscribers points out that Qantas operating procedures for its [...]
A strange case of jet lag in air accident reporting
April 12, 2009 – 4:35 pm
The Herald Sun in Melbourne recovered from a severe case of jet lag today by reporting, breathlessly, the Emirates flight EK 407 accident in Melbourne on 20 March.
What could have possibly lead it to discover, in what purports to be an ‘investigation’ on its part, what had already been discussed here on 23 March and [...]
Last traces of Ansett fleet to fetch $900,000
April 10, 2009 – 8:05 am
The last vestiges of the Ansett fleet of 134 jets are to be broken up for spare parts and sold for an estimated $900,000 by KMA, the Korda-Mentha administrators .
These parts will come from two BAe 146 jets the administrators are repossessing from European operator Orionair which has been unable to meet its [...]
Justice has failed in Indonesia
April 6, 2009 – 8:03 pm
The most guilty party in the March 2007 crash of a Garuda 737 at Yogyakarta which killed 5 Australians escaped punishment in Indonesia today.
That party was the airline, Garuda, which failed miserably in its responsibility to maintain and enforce the necessary standards in pilot training and checking.
Instead the panel of five judges, one dissenting, found [...]
Does regional pilot rage threaten air safety?
April 5, 2009 – 2:36 pm
There is a rising madness at country airports that needs to be sorted out before someone gets a Cessna or a skydiver through the cockpit of a passenger jet or turbo-prop causing an air disaster.
After this report in Crikey on 2 April, one of the very high time airliner pilots in Australia sunk [...]
The 777, the 787 and Qantas
April 3, 2009 – 8:10 am
Hardly a day goes by when industry contacts don’t reflect on the folly of Qantas failing to order the Boeing 777.
Not just the current versions of the jet, but back in the late 90s when the higher gross weight version of the 777-200, which became branded as the -200ER became available.
No one really knows, other [...]
Tiger finds Sydney on map of Australia
April 2, 2009 – 7:47 pm
It’s only taken 16 months, but Singapore owned Tiger Airways has found Sydney on the map of Australia and will fly up to four times a day between Melbourne and the harbour city from 3 July.
The news coincides with the announcement of a new financial structure for Singapore based Jetstar Asia in conjunction with [...]
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