Qantas, Tiger and Virgin Blue have all expressed anger or frustration over the incompetence of AirServices Australia over the past year, but after Sunday’s jet jam up at Sydney Airport, Virgin Blue wants it to pay up.
A spokesperson for Virgin Blue said this afternoon,
“We are still assessing costs relating to the full impact on [...]
Tag Archives: AirServices-Australia
Virgin Blue to pursue AirServices Australia for compensation for its air traffic failures
September 14, 2009 – 4:19 pm
Air traffic controllers endorse possible industrial action
February 12, 2009 – 2:22 pm
Air traffic controllers have voted by 701 to 42 in favour of industrial action as may be directed by their union Civil Air over grievances concerning pay negotiations and levels of overtime.
This is not a vote for an immediate strike. While it could lead to a strike controllers say overtime bans are a more likely [...]
Your Christmas flight might even be on time
December 23, 2008 – 4:28 pm
Civil Air, the air traffic controller union, says there will be no industrial action during the holiday season.
This might not eliminate problems however, as the statement points to the chronic shortage of controllers, whether union members or not, which has caused air traffic control disruption all year.
The union’s tactic is to leave the Minister for [...]
Earth to Albanese-AirServices needs to be fixed now
October 7, 2008 – 12:14 pm
Virgin Blue has always been good at publicity stunts, but its bill to AirServices Australia for half a million dollars because it couldn’t deliver full air traffic control at Sydney Airport last Friday is not a joke.
The Minister for Infrastructure and Transport, Anthony Albanese, has been told by all of the major airlines that the [...]
Good idea, wrong result
September 30, 2008 – 12:23 pm
This mostly matters to those who don’t like flying at the best of times and have to use crappy country airstrips like the ones the pilots of a larger airliner would only contemplate if they were on fire.
Navigating into rough strips like the one at Lockhart River where Transair hit a hill on approach killing [...]
Hello everybody, big jet coming through
September 26, 2008 – 8:24 am
Up until midnight there had been 69 declarations this month of zones in the sky over Australia where normal air traffic control was unavailable to airliners, air freighters and private aircraft capable of using the same air space. The position of the Minister for Infrastructure and Transport, Anthony Albanese is that this is a [...]
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