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, [...]
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 [...]
Brain fade or incompetency at Melbourne Airport compromised border security and passenger welfare after the Emirates accident involving flight EK407 on 20 March.
A copy of Melbourne Airport’s incident report received by Plane Talking deals with the debriefing of the full emergency response services involved that night, which comprises the Australian Federal Police, the Australian Customs [...]
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 [...]
This was the nearest thing Australia has ever had to a fully loaded jet airliner disaster in which the aircraft was damaged yet no-one was killed or injured.
The timelines and graphics in the ATSB preliminary factual report show that Emirates flight EK 407 and the 275 people on board were seconds and centimetres from a [...]
The first official report into the worst non-fatal air accident in Australia involving damage to an airliner, Emirates flight EK 407, has just been released.
The Crikey bulletin this afternoon will examine the report and separately, the media amnesia that set in for more than two weeks after the accident.
A full report will also be [...]
The Herald Sun in Melbourne recovered from a severe case of jet lag today by reporting, breathlessly, the Emirates flight EK 407 accident in Melbourne on 20 March.
What could have possibly lead it to discover, in what purports to be an ‘investigation’ on its part, what had already been discussed here on 23 March and [...]
When one of your jets with 225 passengers on board bashes its way off the end of the runway at Melbourne Airport and collects an ILS antenna which is 150 cms tall with its tail some sort of detailed explanation to the public must be made.
Yet according to the foreign media all that has been [...]
ATSB air accident investigators could know as soon as this afternoon what sort of incident they are dealing with after an Emirates A345 with more than 230 people on board was severely damaged on taking off from Melbourne Airport on Friday night.
Was it badly flown? Did one or more cargo containers break loose during the [...]
Last night’s serious incident involving an Emirates A345 departing Melbourne for Dubai as flight EK 407 has caused some very striking images to be posted on the industry site Pprune.org and in the general media.
The jet rotated to an abnormally nose high attitude causing what is known as a ‘tail strike.’ There are reports of [...]
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