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 [...]
Tag Archives: airlines
Angry Flyers Lounge-Tiger loses them young
November 19, 2009 – 4:08 pm
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 [...]
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 [...]
‘Fly by Wire’ the book, and an incredible video
November 13, 2009 – 10:55 am
The six minute flight then glide of US Airways flight Cactus 1549 from La Guardia airport to splashdown in the Hudson River on January 15 this year was a rare and spectacular good news story when it comes to air crashes.
The release this week of Fly by Wire, the Geese, the Glide, the Miracle on [...]
Is Cathay Pacific also a canary about to sing again?
November 12, 2009 – 12:40 pm
After comparing Singapore Airlines to a canary in a mine shaft yesterday it is only fair to suggest that Cathay Pacific may also be about to return to song, indicating that the toxic trading conditions of the GFC are receding.
In its guidance on its mixed October operating statistics, Cathay Pacific says:
“The seasonal upturn in our [...]
Joyce’s Qantas to become a new premium carrier
November 11, 2009 – 3:17 pm
Qantas CEO Alan Joyce gave to his answer to the Virgin Blue ‘airline of the future’ one brand strategy today.
He said Qantas would become a ‘new premium carrier’, a reference to Virgin Blue’s ‘new world carrier’ concept. And it would not, ever, Jetstar-ise itself. The dual brand strategy would continue, but with ‘evolved’ premium [...]
Qantas launches Baggage Tag of the Future
November 11, 2009 – 2:10 pm
A permanent baggage tag will be a key part of the Qantas Airport of the Future project announced today by its CEO, Alan Joyce.
The concept is that of updating the information in the baggage tracking system in tandem with the chip embedded in the tag each time a Qantas Frequent Flyer member checks the bag [...]
Singapore Airlines reports smaller losses and signs of recovery
November 11, 2009 – 11:26 am
If airlines are the canaries in the mine shaft when it comes to the economic environment, then Singapore Airlines is more firmly gripping its perch but not yet in song.
It has just reported a quarterly loss of $SIN 159 million, compared to $SIN307 million in the previous first quarter of its financial year which ends [...]
A reminder of a growing problem
November 10, 2009 – 9:46 am
This photo illustrates a problem that is likely to affect Australian carriers and their normal sized passengers as the obesity epidemic spreads .
It was taken last month by a flight attendant in the US on her iPhone. She noticed the situation when the dispatch agent was distracted at the front of the cabin trying to [...]
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