Qantas and Virgin Blue lose a significant amount of control over domestic fares and scheduling from today when Tiger lifts its frequency on the Sydney-Melbourne route to nine times daily each way.
For example, contrary to everything said publicly by Qantas CEO Alan Joyce, Jetstar during this month goes to 7.10 am, 8.35 am, 3.30 pm [...]
Tag Archives: Brett Godfrey
Four airlines, two cities, and a big cat fight
October 4, 2009 – 11:02 am
Would you like extra bandwidth with your seat?
September 25, 2009 – 10:05 am
It’s one thing to pay airlines extra to choose your seat, and extra to check a bag, and extra for more legroom in the over-wing exit rows, but what about a much faster internet connection?
This could be what Brett Godfrey, Virgin Blue CEO had in mind, when he mentioned the ‘airline of the future’ project [...]
Virgin Blue’s ‘Airline of the Future’ project will change everything
September 16, 2009 – 10:46 pm
A glimpse of where Virgin Blue expects to be within five years was given by its co-founder and CEO, Brett Godfrey today when he told the aviation media it has a previously secret ‘airline of the future’ unit working on its renewal and growth.
Some features of that future will be:
A single brand for V Australia, [...]
Brett Godfrey looks for his successor, and for a big finish
July 27, 2009 – 5:00 pm
2010 looks like being Brett Godfrey’s biggest as well as last year as CEO of Virgin Blue.
In fact heading the succession selection process following his expected announcement this morning that he will leave his post as the first and so far only CEO of the airline in its 10th anniversary year seems some way down [...]
Virgin Blue announces $231m equity raising, a higher equity for Richard Branson and Brett Godfrey’s decision to leave the company by the end of 2010
July 27, 2009 – 10:14 am
Virgin Blue has revealed how it will fund its survive and expand strategy for the recession and the expected recovery, and a search for a successor to Brett Godfrey, who has decided to leave the airline he founded in 2010, its tenth anniversary year.
The unaudited figures and operating statistics for the year to 30 June [...]
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 [...]
Virgin Blue is red, but far from dead
February 23, 2009 – 1:24 pm
No doubt to the dismay of those behind rumours that Virgin Blue is variously poised between imminent closure, or bleeding cash at a rate not seen since Ansett went down, the airline today posted disappointing but far from terminal results for the 6 months to 31 December 2008.
The headline numbers in the real announcement, the [...]
Why aren’t the big Australian airlines doing better?
February 22, 2009 – 1:54 pm
Tomorrow’s late morning (23 February) half yearly financial results announcement and briefing by Virgin Blue should fill in some of the gaps in the public knowledge of how well, or poorly, the main Australian carriers are performing.
Virgin Blue’s CEO Brett Godfrey is the person primarily responsible for an airline that has [...]
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