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BEN SANDILANDS | May 18, 2013 | AVIATION | 10 |

How about dual Qantas-Emirates liveries?

Poor quality file pix of dual liveried BA-SQ Concorde

 

One of the frequent comments in discussions about the Qantas-Emirates partnership is the ‘invisibility’ of the Qantas brand for those who get punted on to Emirates airliners to Europe out of Brisbane, Adelaide and Perth, the capitals abandoned by the Australian flag carrier in favor of code shared reservations.

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BEN SANDILANDS | May 17, 2013 | AVIATION | 2 |

Singapore Air, Tiger fortunes diverge in 4Q FY13

Tiger up, Singapore Airlines down as low cost trumps full service in fourth quarter earnings.

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BEN SANDILANDS | May 17, 2013 | AIRPORTS | 6 |

Guess who isn’t building a second Sydney Airport?

What congestion? Good until 2049! A Paul Sadler photo courtesy AirServices

Well, that has to be the best news for a new airport in the Sydney basin for years.

Sydney Airport chairman, Max Moore Wilton, has given Fairfax Media the definitive commitment not to put SACL’s hand up to exercise its first right of refusal to build a second Sydney Airport at Badgerys Creek

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BEN SANDILANDS | May 17, 2013 | AVIATION | |

Falling Australian dollar takes airlines with it

A weak Australian dollar is good for the country, bad for its airlines.

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BEN SANDILANDS | May 17, 2013 | AVIATION | 1 |

As Virgin falters airline investors face bigger questions

In just over 24 hours of brutal insights into errors in Virgin Australia and a sharp sell off in the shares that aren’t owned by major investors Singapore Airlines, Air New Zealand and Etihad the market at least has new guidance from its management that it will nevertheless be in profit, reduced profit, for the full year to 30 June.

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BEN SANDILANDS | May 16, 2013 | AVIATION | 11 |

Qantas takes on V’s E-jets with rebirthed 717s

Absent a decent Qlink 717 photo, here is a Q400 lost amid the big jets Source: Qantas

 

Something more than interesting is on the way in the battle for Canberra corporate and government accounts as QantasLink prepares a fleet of refurbished Boeing 717s to take on Virgin Australia’s Embraer 190s.

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BEN SANDILANDS | May 16, 2013 | AVIATION | 4 |

Brisbane gets 4 Emirates A380 flights daily from 2 October

A rare natural colour rendition of an Emirates A380 at altitude

 

While they will all be flown by the same A380, there will be four Emirates flights a day using the giant Airbus through Brisbane Airport from 2 October, a Dubai arrival and departure and an Auckland arrival and departure.

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BEN SANDILANDS | May 16, 2013 | AIRLINERS | |

Southwest first to buy 737 MAX 7s

This appears to be a version of an official Boeing graphic of a 737-7 and Mt Rainier

Although the Boeing 737 MAX series has been on sale for some time, giant US low fare carrier Southwest has become the first airline to place on order for the MAX 7, the smallest of the family.

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BEN SANDILANDS | May 16, 2013 | AIR SAFETY | 1 |

Lion Air Bali crash reports damns airline’s safety

The captain of the brand new Lion Air 737-800 that crashed into the sea near Denpasar’s airport in April took control of the jet at an altitude of 150 feet after the junior pilot repeatedly complained he could not see the runway, according to a preliminary report by Indonesia’s air safety authority.

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BEN SANDILANDS | May 16, 2013 | AVIATION | |

Virgin Australia says getting better has made things worse

A cut-to-the-chase reading of the Virgin Australia profit downgrade issued yesterday is that it has improved itself into a less profitable position than before.

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BEN SANDILANDS | May 15, 2013 | AVIATION | 13 |

Qantas marketing, messaging and massaging changes

Qantas has promoted Olivia Wirth to additional senior responsibilities in the group beyond government and media relations to Group Executive Brand, Marketing and Corporate Affairs, and recruited Andrew Parker from a distinguished career with Emirates to become Group Executive Government and International Affairs.

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BEN SANDILANDS | May 15, 2013 | AIRLINERS | 4 |

It’s a new D-day on the 787 line

Boeing supplied image of the ANA 787 being delivered today

 

After four months deliveries have resumed today at the congested Boeing 787 Dreamliner centre at Everett.

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BEN SANDILANDS | May 14, 2013 | AVIATION | 1 |

Asia gets less safe for ‘capital light’ airline ventures

Qantas remains officially confident about its plans for ‘capital light’ expansion in Asia, and Virgin Australia places its hopes on alliances to participate in the boom times, but are events leaving them behind?

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BEN SANDILANDS | May 14, 2013 | AVIATION | 2 |

RMIT team finalists for Airbus innovation prize

Underwing liquified gas pods feature in RMIT entry

 

A proposal to adapt liquified biomethane and LPG blends for use in airliners designed to achieve reduced reduced fossil carbon emissions has made an RMIT University team from Melbourne among five finalists in the running for this years Airbus Fly Your Ideas prize.

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BEN SANDILANDS | May 14, 2013 | AIRLINERS | 5 |

Airbus A350 shows its colours in Toulouse

 

Airbus has posted a set of photos of the A350-900 prototype in its full colours after emerging from the Toulouse paint shop.

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