Boeing can console itself with the near certainty of a large order for new jets from Virgin Blue in the coming weeks or months after this morning losing the contest to replace Air New Zealand’s aged fleet of Boeing 737-300s.
Air NZ has ordered 14 A320s to replace the 15 Boeings involved, and taken options on [...]
Tag Archives: Sydney Airport
Air NZ chooses Airbuses to replace old Boeing 737s
November 3, 2009 – 11:38 am
Tiger’s Sydney strategy may have unintended consequences
July 20, 2009 – 5:13 pm
Tiger is exposing some weaknesses in the Jetstar strategy in Australia by concentrating its capacity on higher frequency scheduling between major airports.
But will this have the unintended consequence of changing the way Qantas uses Jetstar?
The move to up to nine flights each way between Melbourne and Sydney from 4 October, compared to the three or [...]
Sydney-one soon to be stuffed airport and three statements point to trouble ahead
June 19, 2009 – 5:55 pm
Infrastructure Minister Anthony Albanese ended the one airport for Sydney policy today in a rider to granting approval to Sydney Airport’s latest 20 year plan.
He said Sydney would need a second airport after 2029, and invited the NSW Government to join in a study to find and develop a site.
Which really means something will have [...]
The perpetual motion money grabbing machines of privatised Australian airports could hit the wall
June 18, 2009 – 8:00 am
The catch cry of privatised big city airports in Australia used to be ’sweat the asset.’
But the decision by the Infrastructure Minister Anthony Albanese to run the plans of Sydney Airport through the wringer at Access Economics suggests that ’sweat the owner’ could change this.
This report appeared in the Crikey Daily Email to subscribers yesterday.
Infrastructure [...]
How Jetstar plans to skin Tiger in Sydney
May 1, 2009 – 4:44 pm
This is no way near finalised, but Jetstar is understood to have a plan to stalk every Tiger flight between Melbourne and Sydney in July when the Singaporean owned carrier launches on the country’s biggest domestic route.
This would mean two things at least. Jetstar will have regular Sydney-Melbourne services that use Melbourne’s Tullamarine Airport rather [...]
Earth to Albanese-AirServices needs to be fixed now
October 7, 2008 – 12:14 pm
Virgin Blue has always been good at publicity stunts, but its bill to AirServices Australia for half a million dollars because it couldn’t deliver full air traffic control at Sydney Airport last Friday is not a joke.
The Minister for Infrastructure and Transport, Anthony Albanese, has been told by all of the major airlines that the [...]
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