An integrated management structure for Virgin Blue and V Australia was announced internally in the Virgin Blue group this afternoon, with clear signals as to where new CEO and former Qantas executive gm, John Borghetti is taking the group. The changes put in place the organisational bedrock of an airline that will have a single [...]
Virgin Blue and V Australia will merge their organisational charts today and a number of careers of note will be ended. It will be a sad end for some loyal executives who have given it their all. However the integration of the long haul and domestic brands has been expected since last September, well before [...]
If you thought the Air NZ body painted nude air crew ads and safety videos were startling, Aeroflot has decided to go all the way. This blitz, which includes its version of the Pirelli calendar, is supposed to be a response to this plane washing ad (below) by low cost upstart AviaNova. An Australian working [...]
On Sunday the Seattle Times revealed how in 2005 Boeing received some very bad news about the dangers of a plastic 787 in what would be a ‘survivable’ crash landing in a metal alloy jet like its 777. However, as the author Dominic Gates reported, Boeing also dealt with the problem by specially designing under [...]
It became the day of the unbundle bungle. Tiger’s biggest PR stuff up since it held an ANZAC Day sale in 2009-yesterday’s announcement about check-in fees and increased checked baggage charges, certainly generated headlines. The Singapore Airlines controlled low cost carrier was trying to educate consumers about unbundling air fares. Several key elements in the [...]
This image, posted with little additional information on the NASA site, is one of two supersonic studies done for its N+3 airliners of the future project. The other study, by Boeing, may be released shortly. The unusual tail design scoped in the LockMart study is intended to disrupt and diminish the supersonic booms generated by [...]
Update Tuesday : Tiger Airways has called apologising for the misunderstandings arising from its press release on the new charges. Highlights of the conversation include the admission that the $10 check in fee is for a facility no-one would really need to use, and that web-check users can avoid any check-in fee if they print [...]
Somewhat lost in excitement of the Rudd dismissal last week, Infrastructure and Transport Minister Anthony Albanese failed a second time to get Senate approval for regulatory changes affecting cockpit doors. The regulations the government tried to ram through without pilot consultation are exceedingly strange. 1. They would prevent off duty pilots from flying in the [...]
Qantas has reduced to 5000 the points needed to access mixed dollars and points frequent flyer redemptions. Seems like a good idea, assuming the offers work for you at the time. But is it also part of a plan to kill off traditional FFP ‘freebies’? It does give members of the Qantas program another reason [...]
For reasons explained in detail here, the Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter recently recorded a high resolution mosaic image of the earth as seen from the moon. While it is only in monochrome, the full image found at the link is sufficiently detailed to show late northern spring melt breaks in the Arctic sea ice near Siberia, [...]
