It seems that every time the senior management of Pel-Air open their mouths in public they take on more water.
In today’s Australian, Jim Davis, the managing director of REX, the regional airline that owns Pel-Air follows up the amazing admissions made earlier this week by Pel-Air chairman and former federal Transport Minister, John Sharp about [...]
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Pel-Air implicates itself deeper and deeper over ditching
November 21, 2009 – 8:15 am
Let’s get real about the Norfolk Island ditching
November 19, 2009 – 8:34 pm
(There are updates from CASA and the ATSB at the end of this post.)
Wednesday night’s ditching of a Pel-Air CareFlight medivac Westwind jet is being turned into a media circus by the airline and some very susceptible reporters.
First reported in the Crikey subscriber email today, the incident which left six people, half of them without [...]
Angry Flyers Lounge-Tiger loses them young
November 19, 2009 – 4:08 pm
Is Tiger inept or conscientiously tricky in trying to get passengers to forfeit a cheap fare and buy a more costly arrangement?
This is an email sent to a reader by his daughter about her friend Hannah’s experience with Tiger in Adelaide yesterday. Our reader has also complained about Tiger here in the past.
Hi Daddy,
Here [...]
QF72: Did a cosmic ray zap the Airbus?
November 18, 2009 – 5:33 pm
The Australian Transport Safety Bureau is now considering the remote possibility that a rogue cosmic ray or solar particle caused a Qantas A330-300 to twice dive out of control over Western Australia on October 7 last year.
Startling though this may sound, the second interim report into the accident, in which 12 people were seriously injured [...]
Sky goes dark with lawyers over Dreamliner ‘misinformation’
November 18, 2009 – 9:07 am
There are now two suits filed against Boeing for alleged violations of US governance and stock trading laws concerning its statements about the progress of its much delayed 787 Dreamliner project.
The first is a class action by a Dallas law firm, the Kendall Law Group which is advertising for aggrieved shareholders to join the case. [...]
Air Austral signs up for 840 seat party plane but gatecrashers are on the way
November 18, 2009 – 8:01 am
The MonsterBus looms larger than ever. Some 10 months after French territorial carrier Air Austral pencilled an order for two A380s configured for 840 economy class seats each it has signed the binding purchase contracts.
This story The Party Plane to Paris is on its way published here on January 16 has stood the time test [...]
The Pulse, Singapore Airlines finds one
November 17, 2009 – 10:40 am
Hard on the heels of its loss in the first six months of its financial year, Singapore Airlines finds signs of life in the October operating statistics released this morning.
It’s sober reading for those who depend on air transport, with passenger numbers substantially below the levels of a year earlier. However Singapore Airlines has in [...]
Rosetta sees Earth for the last time and heads for the outer darkness, and a comet
November 17, 2009 – 9:32 am
Some images give pause to the pace and distractions of everyday life.
Such as this view of the crescent earth seen by the European Space Agency Rosetta probe last Friday as it began to close in on its third and last gravitational slingshot flyby on route to its encounter with comet 67P Churyumov-Gerasimenko in 2014.
The [...]
Is Qantas thinking about a future with no 787s?
November 15, 2009 – 4:39 pm
There are a few fragments of information going around that suggest Qantas is thinking about a possible future without its much delayed 787s.
One item is that it is looking at getting even more A330s, from wherever it can get them.
Same source as Plane Talking’s early call in July of a subsequent firm order for more [...]
All Nippon Airways invents a First Class ‘Crypt’ and puts bidets in the bathrooms
November 14, 2009 – 12:01 pm
All Nippon has revealed its new premium and economy cabins and given the quality end of the air travel spectrum a big jolt.
How about bidets in the bathrooms for the first and business class cabins? Which it claims as a world first. Will this cause Emirates to also install bidets in its twin shower/spa rooms [...]
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