Good morning,
This one is probably small game after some of the hideous complaints of other flyers. But I thought I would share it anyway.
I’m a 20-something Tasmanian heading off on his first major overseas trip and, after looking at flights to Heathrow, decided on booking with Etihad Airways. For booking, I was using my credit [...]
Tag Archives: Etihad
Angry Flyers Lounge-Etihad won’t accept my credit card
September 2, 2009 – 8:36 am
Decoding the Qantas Middle East code share
March 11, 2009 – 1:19 pm
Qantas may have just started the airline equivalent of a ‘holy war’ in the Middle East.
Of course no-one in Qantas would be as tactless as a Crikey blog in so describing today’s announcement of a code share with Etihad Airways. The official term is that the deal is ’strategic’ which in itself is quite an [...]
QF+BA piles more pressure onto Singapore Airlines
December 3, 2008 – 7:08 am
The possibility of a QF+BA merger adds immense pressure onto Singapore Airlines, and its majority shareholder, Temasek Holdings, to execute an effective strategy to participate in airline consolidation.
But the most pressure on them comes from recent earlier news that Abu Dhabi wants to control Dubai based airline giant Emirates as part of the price for [...]
UK govt robs Qantas to ‘pay’ Emirates
November 26, 2008 – 2:24 pm
The doctrinaire, dare I suggest dishonest, approach of the UK government to adding taxes to air travel to ’save the environment’ comes with some bizarre consequences.
Chancellor of the Exchequer, Alistair Darling, has announced a set of Air Passenger Duty charges which rise according to the distance a jet flies from London which would add £85, [...]
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