A one third stake in the lease hold land at Bankstown Airport is up for sale.
This ad in the Sydney Morning Herald on Saturday spells potential calamity for GA or general aviation stake holders in a location many in the industry feared would be turned into retail malls or given over to other commercial use [...]
Monthly Archives: May 2009
Someone is bailing out of Bankstown and general aviation could be a very big loser
May 24, 2009 – 7:30 pm
More action at Everett as the engines turn for the 787 test fleet
May 24, 2009 – 1:09 pm
‘Flightblogger’ Jon Ostrower has developments at Paine Field, Everett, well and truly nailed, and it is looking as though the 787 Dreamliner is at last closing in on first flight.
Jon’s continuous column is the authority on where the first and second Dreamliners in particular are as they prepare for first flight. The current deadline mentioned [...]
Virgin Blue piles the pressure onto Qantas with latest traffic figures
May 22, 2009 – 4:54 pm
Today’s traffic figures for April and the 10 months to 30 April from Virgin Blue show the relevancy of the full service Qantas domestic product is under siege.
The international figures are irrelevant to the domestic situation other than a reminder that as V Australia forces its way into the US market after its late [...]
Tiger reaffirms interest in becoming an Australian flag carrier
May 21, 2009 – 5:44 pm
Tiger Airways has told analysts in Singapore this afternoon that it is now advancing as Australian carriers retreat.
It also had international services by its Australian division ‘on the radar.’
Its president and CEO Tony Davis said the 16 jets in its fleet (10 in Singapore and 6 in Australia) will grow by 56 more single aisle [...]
Not just ‘another’ A320 takes off in Tianjin
May 19, 2009 – 11:40 am
The flight of the first Airbus A320 assembled in China yesterday slots another section of Beijing’s aerospace strategy into place.
Some commentary has labelled the event ‘ceremonial’ in that it was the final assembly of components largely imported from Europe.
But China has around 700 Airbuses on order, most of them single aisle jets from the A320 [...]
Jetstar mounts an escape into Changi
May 18, 2009 – 1:19 pm
The trench warfare between Singapore Airlines controlled Tiger Airways and the Qantas controlled Jetstar franchise dug in a bit deeper this morning when Jetstar Asia announced a new matrix of interline arrangements with its focal point at Changi Airport.
It means Qantas is going to use Changi against Singapore Airlines the same way the Singaporeans had [...]
Branson talks about how Virgin Atlantic could go broke
May 15, 2009 – 12:06 pm
Richard Branson said overnight that he couldn’t guarantee the survival of Virgin Atlantic, which is 51% owned by his family company, if a revenue sharing and price fixing alliance was allowed between American Airlines and British Airways.
Branson has made similar warnings for the many years, even before the oneworld alliance came along in 1998 and [...]
Anti-Christ update; Ryanair launches home printed boarding pass fee plus a hefty fine
May 14, 2009 – 9:45 am
Ryanair has found new ways to shake down its customers with a £5 fee for printing their own tickets at home, and which is unavoidable, as it is also shutting down all of its check-in desks.
In addition it will fine passengers £40 at the airport if they turn up without it, by charging that amount [...]
Memo Airbus: ‘No’ to windowless jets, ‘Yes’ to see through cabins
May 13, 2009 – 2:35 pm
One of the innovations Airbus is contemplating among a short list of bright ideas in a world wide ‘concepts’ contest is a windowless airliner.
Great. We already have legless airliners, thanks to the cruel end of the low cost airline spectrum, so why not remove all the windows and maybe the lights as well, saving another [...]
Hotelicopter hoaxers unmasked by Wired
May 13, 2009 – 2:06 pm
Yet another ‘fakement’ is clogging the internet, this time a Hotelicopter.
It began as an April Fool’s Day hoax, and was exposed as such by Wired’s Autopia blog, but like the giant Mars hoax that first circulated in 2003, it won’t die.
Instead, like the other hoaxes, whether the ‘Arab pilots who (didn’t) wreck a new Airbus’, [...]
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