Tag Archives: Thai International

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 [...]

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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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