In a few hours time Boeing is to conduct a conference call on its earnings outlook.
However this story in The Seattle Times is the real story, one of a company that continues to lie and misrepresent the calamity that the 787 Dreamliner project has become.
The original lie that Boeing used to makes fools of customers [...]
Monthly Archives: July 2009
The 787 calamity: Lies and evasions continue
July 23, 2009 – 1:07 am
Large mercy shown to economy class passengers
July 21, 2009 – 11:19 am
The most perverse thing about air travel is the inverse relationship between seat size and the up-sizing of passengers.
As the seats get smaller the effects of improved nutrition (as well as excessive nutrition) makes people grow larger, especially those who always occupy the adjacent seats when you are stuck in the middle.
This is not just [...]
Tiger’s Sydney strategy may have unintended consequences
July 20, 2009 – 5:13 pm
Tiger is exposing some weaknesses in the Jetstar strategy in Australia by concentrating its capacity on higher frequency scheduling between major airports.
But will this have the unintended consequence of changing the way Qantas uses Jetstar?
The move to up to nine flights each way between Melbourne and Sydney from 4 October, compared to the three or [...]
It’s war: Tiger doubles Sydney-Melbourne and Sydney-Adelaide flights from 4 October
July 20, 2009 – 7:07 am
Qantas and Virgin Blue are being forced into a full scale fare war with Tiger Airways at a very painful moment in domestic aviation in Australia.
The Singapore Airlines controlled low cost response to Jetstar opening a subsidiary in Singapore has announced more than doubling its Sydney-Melbourne flights to up to nine daily returns from 4 [...]
And they came to a silver world under a black sky
July 17, 2009 – 5:38 pm
There are many classic photos of the Apollo 11 moon mission, which took the first moon men, Neil Armstrong and Edwin ‘Buzz’ Aldrin to their touchdown on the Sea of Tranquillity on 20 July 1969, and some that get overlooked.
All of these are courtesy of the NASA Apollo 11 image gallery.
The image above is the [...]
Meeting the first Moon man
July 17, 2009 – 4:00 pm
Joe Boerner, then US Consul in Sydney cautioned me that interviewing Neil Armstrong was ‘difficult’.
His advice was “talk to him about flying. He loves flying.”
It was good advice but I more or less blew it. It was March 1979 and the Sydney Morning Herald was sending me to Melbourne to talk to the [...]
French farce, a black list of airlines in the rest of the world
July 17, 2009 – 9:21 am
For chauvinism in air transport some sort of award should be given to French Secretary of State for transport Dominique Bussereau who called for a global blacklist of unsafe airlines this week as an extension of the European list.
Why not start with Air France? It totalled an Airbus A340 at Toronto on 2 August [...]
Melbourne gets daily Singapore Airlines Airbus A380s to London from 29 September
July 15, 2009 – 2:34 pm
Singapore Airlines will have daily return flights from both Melbourne and Sydney to London on Airbus A380s from 29 September.
The deployment of its ninth A380 on the Melbourne-Singapore route closely parallels the late afternoon departure and early morning arrivals of the giant Airbus on the Sydney-Singapore-London route allowing easy connections for Melbourne travellers in [...]
The Past-Pan Am flight 123 and the North Pole
July 15, 2009 – 9:00 am
It is not just 40 years since the first manned flight to the moon, but also the advent of commercial INS or inertial navigation systems in scheduled airline service.
To complete the process of certification in 1969 however a passenger carrying flight had to be made, and Pan American World Airways decided to ‘divert’ a London-Seattle [...]
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