Previously unknown issues in airliner operations in severe cold in the upper atmosphere are cited by the FAA in the US in serving notice of compulsory design changes to Rolls-Royce powered versions of the Boeing 777-200ER jet overnight.
While there are no RR engined 777s in service with Australian carriers the directive is interesting in [...]
Tag Archives: British Airways
Did global warming chill out two jets and lead to compulsory engine modifications?
July 25, 2009 – 11:23 am
Branson calls on UK goverment to let British Airways go broke
June 22, 2009 – 7:34 am
Richard Branson’s call on Sunday for HMG to let British Airways go broke rather than prop it up with bail out money is fiercely controversial.
It is exactly how Branson wants it to be in the circumstances when British Airways is trying yet again to stich up the North Atlantic market with another airline that looks [...]
BA work-for-free-plea points to a second great escape for Qantas
June 17, 2009 – 11:03 am
How lucky can Qantas be, or alternatively, how poorly advised has it been in recent times?
First it escaped from the Airline Partners Australia private equity bid that was a dead set disaster from the start only through one of the buyers missing a deadline, and now its infatuation with a merger with British Airways late [...]
Branson talks about how Virgin Atlantic could go broke
May 15, 2009 – 12:06 pm
Richard Branson said overnight that he couldn’t guarantee the survival of Virgin Atlantic, which is 51% owned by his family company, if a revenue sharing and price fixing alliance was allowed between American Airlines and British Airways.
Branson has made similar warnings for the many years, even before the oneworld alliance came along in 1998 and [...]
Why the Singapore Airlines Paris match could burn Qantas
January 20, 2009 – 11:44 am
Singapore Airlines has confirmed rumours that its next A380 destination is Paris.
The puffery that accompanies the announcement of daily links between its Australian flights and a new daily schedule for the giant Airbus between Singapore and Paris from 1 June doesn’t go into the strategic implications for Qantas but they are considerable.
Qantas has seen its [...]
Why a threatened oneworld split up means little to a real world
January 8, 2009 – 10:51 am
The chairman of British Airways, Martin Broughton, is being given space by the consumer and technical aviation media abroad in which to claim that the oneworld alliance will split up if it doesn’t get its way over yet another demand to be allowed to fix prices in concert with American Airlines on the North Atlantic [...]
Qantas-BA=Why not have another crack at Air New Zealand?
December 19, 2008 – 7:02 am
Now that Qantas+ BA has become Qantas-BA, what might be the next step?
The failure of the merger talks “at this point in time” to quote the Qantas statement is no surprise. There wasn’t a single analyst of adult age who believed it would work.
But given that Qantas is unlikely to stop scoping deals in [...]
Qantas puts Joyce under observation
December 8, 2008 – 1:46 pm
The QF+BA circus performs its next act in Sydney this afternoon.
At short notice the media has been invited to ‘observe’ new CEO Alan Joyce make his first major speech in that role to an Australia-Israel Chamber of Commerce luncheon in the Sydney offices of law firm Blake Dawson.
A Qantas spokesperson confirmed that ‘observe’ meant no [...]
Qantas, bogged, dogged and possibly flogged?
December 8, 2008 – 9:34 am
The Qantas follies continue, but at least the operational mishaps of the last few days weren’t life threatening.
On Friday night the Airbus A330 that was to operate the red-eye to Tokyo was towed off a taxiway and sunk into mud before it even reached the gate.
On Saturday another A330 that was to fly the [...]
QF+BA ‘benefits’ defy reality
December 4, 2008 – 7:52 am
The spinning of the claimed benefits of a QF+BA merger seems to be approaching ‘warp’ speed, with the merger Trekkies in full chant.
It is said that the combined entity will have better buying power. That it will save money on maintenance, cabin fit outs and on marketing!
Let’s start with maintenance. How can Qantas save even [...]
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