It is now 72 hours since a wrong report about Virgin Blue getting Boeing 777-200LRs in Air Transport World sent sites like Airliners.net into a frenzy of learned discussion.
This report also excited contacts in Qantas sufficiently for them to give it credence, and cause this report in Plane Talking. Except that I changed my [...]
Tag Archives: Boeing 777
Incorrect if not fanciful reporting about Virgin Blue
November 8, 2009 – 7:54 am
Air NZ economy ’sleeper’ gives Qantas and Virgin Blue cause to wake in fright
October 23, 2009 – 5:48 pm
Let’s think more about the hints from Air New Zealand about opportunities to put economy seats together to make a ‘sleeper’.
What happens when there are lots of empty seats on a particular flight?
Will the carrier try to rope them off to stop passengers spreading out into the empty seats for free, and leave the customers [...]
It’s a Jetstar a rising at Qantas
August 19, 2009 – 6:22 pm
The Jetstar ascendancy is now on in earnest at Qantas.
Qantas CEO Alan Joyce set the airline on course for major changes in his briefings at the full year financial results presentations today.
The three year $1.5 billion ‘Q Future’ cost reduction program is officially about more efficient practices in aircraft procurement and fleet utilisation and processes [...]
Qantas: No 777s, more A330s, 87% less profits and group flew into negative earnings in second half
August 19, 2009 – 9:02 am
The Qantas full year to 30 June financial briefing was held this morning.
The Qantas group filings and presentations are available on www.asx.com.au under the code QAN.
The highlights are:
Profit before tax down 87% compared to the previous financial year to $181 million.
Profit after tax is $123 million. The corresponding figures in financial year 2008 were [...]
V Australia reminds Qantas how wrong it was about the 777
August 17, 2009 – 4:32 pm
Virgin Blue has really shown how it can punish Qantas for its absurd resistance to acquiring Boeing 777s.
The announced ‘phase two’ expansion of its V Australia fleet which rises to only four of these jets by December is going to be an enormous headache for Qantas.
And especially considering it holds orders or options for up [...]
Large mercy shown to economy class passengers
July 21, 2009 – 11:19 am
The most perverse thing about air travel is the inverse relationship between seat size and the up-sizing of passengers.
As the seats get smaller the effects of improved nutrition (as well as excessive nutrition) makes people grow larger, especially those who always occupy the adjacent seats when you are stuck in the middle.
This is not just [...]
This Delta connection is much bigger than announced
March 24, 2009 – 12:19 pm
There is context to the announcement of the interline agreement between V Australia and Delta which seems to have escaped the regurgitaters of airline press releases.
Delta, which eclipsed Southwest as the world’s largest airline in last year’s merger with Northwest wants United Airlines dead. Actually, deader than it is.
V Australia’s owner, Virgin Blue, has a [...]
V Australia, Brer Rabbit and the Briar Patch
February 26, 2009 – 8:31 pm
Virgin Blue might be playing Brer Rabbit pleading not to be flung into the Briar Patch over the misfortunes of its V Australia subsidiary.
The generally negative coverage given to V Australia’s ‘ruinously costly’ tilt at the Qantas dominated routes between Australia and the US doesn’t quit fit into the hole dug for it by the [...]
Qantas ‘invades’ NZ with Jetstar
February 17, 2009 – 9:35 am
Although long anticipated, this morning’s announcement that Jetstar will invade the tiny New Zealand domestic market means it is backs-to-the-wall time for Air New Zealand.
To summarise bluntly, Qantas has wanted Air NZ either dead or stuffed or under its complete control for a long time. The ’stuffed’ scenario is looking strong today.
Air NZ domestic services [...]
Another entry for the Airbus A330 X-files!
January 2, 2009 – 6:58 pm
The Harold E Holt naval communications base near Exmouth on WA’s North West Cape is about to get worked over again as a menace to airliners, at least in the excitable media.
A short while ago the Australian Transport Safety Bureau released this brief but important statement concerning a Qantas A330-300 that experienced an unexplained autopilot [...]
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