The Virgin Blue group operating statistics for August, like those of the Qantas group released yesterday, leave investors with an incomplete scoreboard in terms of comparing performances.
In this case Virgin Blue continues its practice of giving no statistics for yields.
Yesterday Qantas persisted with its practice of fudging the specifics of how Jetstar is tracking [...]
Monthly Archives: September 2009
Qantas v Virgins, an incomplete scoreboard for August
September 30, 2009 – 3:40 pm
Conspicuous consumption, of Qantas, by Jetstar
September 29, 2009 – 5:26 pm
The August operational statistics for the Qantas brands provide measures of the rise of Jetstar at the mainline brand’s expense that the group’s management continues to resist discussing with shareholders and employees.
But the child is eating the parent, and so is Virgin Blue and Singapore Airlines controlled Tiger Airways (Australian division).
In August the [...]
Peak hour for propellers
September 28, 2009 – 8:04 pm
A reminder that the glory days of post war air travel were also noisy, dirty and slow comes from a US reader.
He points out that while the aircraft were spacious, and the service on board was gracious, the carriers flew from large sheds like the Atlanta terminal shown below, where a LIFE magazine photographer recorded [...]
Would you like extra bandwidth with your seat?
September 25, 2009 – 10:05 am
It’s one thing to pay airlines extra to choose your seat, and extra to check a bag, and extra for more legroom in the over-wing exit rows, but what about a much faster internet connection?
This could be what Brett Godfrey, Virgin Blue CEO had in mind, when he mentioned the ‘airline of the future’ project [...]
Angry Flyers Lounge-Fall out from the great dust storm
September 24, 2009 – 1:25 pm
Another lesson as to how airlines can turn an ‘act of God’ into added misery, filed by one of yesterday’s victims.
There are times when even the most generous spirit cannot forgive the
bastard that is Qantas and its devil child, Jetstar.
Yes, I know the great dust storm caused havoc to flight schedules up and
down the east [...]
She left on a jet plane
September 22, 2009 – 8:23 am
Mary Travers, of Peter, Paul and Mary fame, has died of leukemia.
Her song, Leaving on a Jet Plane, was one of the memorable ballads of the 60s.
It was a time of ideas, issues, campaigns, marches, and thanks to the early jet age, of mobility.
Please enjoy the music and wish goodbye to [...]
The hard facts about the Kokoda crash
September 18, 2009 – 7:15 pm
The stark details in the preliminary factual report in the 11 August crash of a small turboprop carrying Australians to Kokoda for the the start of their planned Kokoda track walk makes no mention of a missed approach to the awkwardly located strip.
The report, issued by the Australian Transport Safety Bureau, instead describes the [...]
The shape of jets to come, maybe?
September 18, 2009 – 2:06 pm
This design (above) graces the overnight update to the Airbus Global Market Forecast to 2028.
Is it a successor to the A380, already? Or intended perhaps to fill the size gap between it and the A350-1000? Or is it just a fantasy, like the original shark fin concept of how the Boeing 787 Dreamliner was (never) [...]
Virgin Blue’s ‘Airline of the Future’ project will change everything
September 16, 2009 – 10:46 pm
A glimpse of where Virgin Blue expects to be within five years was given by its co-founder and CEO, Brett Godfrey today when he told the aviation media it has a previously secret ‘airline of the future’ unit working on its renewal and growth.
Some features of that future will be:
A single brand for V Australia, [...]
So you think airport security screening is bad now?
September 16, 2009 – 7:05 am
A New Zealand report has drawn attention to the dangers that explosives placed in a terrorist’s rectum pose for air travel. It’s one of those awful ‘what if’ stories that have been going around for just over 8 years. Now someone is claimed to have used one, but not on an aircraft, and not successfully [...]
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