The Corinne Namblard controversy at Qantas has ended with her resignation.
READ MOREDreamliner: Japan admits ‘easing’ standards to ‘help’ Boeing
The rotten governmental oversight of Japan’s nuclear industry before Fukushima may have been visited on the country’s involvement in the 787 project, as a key official admits a deliberate easing of safety requirements
READ MORESigns of failure at AFR grow
As a keen but increasingly troubled reader of the AFR this morning’s contribution to the search for a 2nd Sydney Airport site saga suggests severe quality failures at the paper.
READ MOREDreamliner 787: Management issues add to technical failures
While the integrity of the electrical systems and lithium ion batteries on 787 Dreamliners remain centre stage the failures of management at Boeing and public administration at the FAA are increasingly difficult to avoid
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Plain talking about Dick Smith and censorship
Dick Smith and the writer have disagreed about almost everything since we became friends, and rivals, as rock climbers in the 1960s, after being part of successive attempts on Balls Pyramid near Lord Howe Island. But the prime time censorship of his Australia Day ‘Dick Smith Foods’ TV commercial is ridiculous and creepy. You can [...]
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Emirates: Adding 3xA380s 2x777s this month Qatar : 787s from Feb
Emirates and Qatar issue more bragging rights PR, but they do have some points to score
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Thirty seconds of jetapocalypso from Gizmodo
A staggering vision of some sort of commercial jetliner apocalypse.
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Airbus A319 with sharklets makes a timely first flight
Hmm. How would this look in Qantaslink livery?
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Qantas fleet rumors, who is dreaming?
The approach of the 2 November Qantas AGM and discussions within the airline are keeping a denied 787 rumor alive, but are the Dreamliner believers dreaming?
READ MORETiger partner Mandala launches new Indonesia routes
Further to the route and branch battle for territory going on at Singapore Airport, Tiger Airways partner Mandala Airlines, will start flights from Changi to both Padang in Sumatra and Denpasar in Bali on 1 December. Tiger has shares in Mandala, and the investment adds to its participation in the Indonesian air travel sector. This [...]
READ MORERyanair fuels a debate about being dead right
Although it was overshadowed in this country by matters related to Qantas, Ryanair has been having high profile fuel emergencies since July, in which its jets, fueled to the minimum and thus legal requirements for the flights they were making, had to make urgent landings because legal or not, they hadn’t loaded enough fuel to [...]
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Sliding seat invention could speed aircraft boarding
A US design firm has come up with a plan for airline seats that slide sideways to make it easier to board and leave crowded jets. The logic is persuasive, but the illustration looks awful. Molon Labe Design’s concept takes on one of the most annoying and for some passengers, stressful things about flying, which [...]
READ MOREAmerican Airlines flyers warned to choose other carriers
When a senior columnist on the Wall St Journal warns travellers to ‘book away from’ American Airlines because of the dysfunctionality arising from its bankruptcy and labor problems it is clearly time to pay attention. American Airlines is an important partner of Qantas in the US, but this isn’t a story about Qantas, but about [...]
READ MOREAir NZ cabin upgrades to give it stronger 777 strategy
This mornings announcement by Air New Zealand that it will upgrade its fleet of eight 777-200ERs to offer the same cabin features as its larger 777-300ERs is a clear signal that it intends to apply the advantages it gets from this airliner right across its network. The NZ -200ERs are comparatively young jets, and the [...]
READ MORELufthansa’s low cost airline project name says it all
It’s hardly surprising to read reports that Lufthansa is contemplating a low cost subsidiary, but the name of the project, Direct4You, is a commendably blunt admission of one of the major reasons why Ryanair and easyJet are faster growing and more profitable on intra-European routes than appears to be the case for the struggling German [...]
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