Tiger’s second announcement of new Sydney flights in two days underlines the pressure the Singapore Airlines controlled low fare airline is applying to the high fare Qantas Cityflyer operation.
Yes. Cityflyer. Not low fare Jetstar, nor middle market Virgin Blue, but high fare Qantas, and especially its inter capital Cityflyers.
Today Tiger’s touch up is the [...]
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Tiger v Cityflyer comes into sharper focus
October 30, 2009 – 5:30 pm
Would you like extra bandwidth with your seat?
September 25, 2009 – 10:05 am
It’s one thing to pay airlines extra to choose your seat, and extra to check a bag, and extra for more legroom in the over-wing exit rows, but what about a much faster internet connection?
This could be what Brett Godfrey, Virgin Blue CEO had in mind, when he mentioned the ‘airline of the future’ project [...]
Virgin Blue’s ‘Airline of the Future’ project will change everything
September 16, 2009 – 10:46 pm
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, [...]
Some last statistics from Qantas and Virgin Blue before things get even worse
June 30, 2009 – 5:27 pm
The May provisional traffic statistics from the Qantas and Virgin Blue brands are the last insights into their operations before black Friday, 3 July.
This Friday is the day Delta, the world’s largest carrier, enters the Australia-US market on the Sydney-Los Angeles route, and Singapore Airlines’ Jetstar clone, Tiger, takes on everybody and Jetstar in [...]
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 [...]
Why aren’t the big Australian airlines doing better?
February 22, 2009 – 1:54 pm
Tomorrow’s late morning (23 February) half yearly financial results announcement and briefing by Virgin Blue should fill in some of the gaps in the public knowledge of how well, or poorly, the main Australian carriers are performing.
Virgin Blue’s CEO Brett Godfrey is the person primarily responsible for an airline that has [...]
Qantas and the Malaysian equation
January 10, 2009 – 6:43 pm
Since almost everyone in the country is speculating on a Qantas deal with Malaysia Airlines it is my turn to have a shot.
Maybe it’s looking at a Malaysian airline, not Malaysia Airlines. Maybe the play involves AirAsia, based in Kuala Lumpur, and involves AirAsia pursuing a reciprocal consolidation agenda by taking significant equity in Jetstar [...]
Will Qantas turn shame into gain?
December 27, 2008 – 8:39 am
Virgin Blue’s elimination of domestic fuel surcharges announced on Christmas Eve seems to put Qantas to shame, but travel retailers are chatting about its likely response as being a headline grabber.
Qantas doesn’t look good for hanging onto an $18 domestic fuel surcharge when its subsidiary Jetstar is charging only $9 and Virgin Blue and Tiger [...]
Your Christmas flight might even be on time
December 23, 2008 – 4:28 pm
Civil Air, the air traffic controller union, says there will be no industrial action during the holiday season.
This might not eliminate problems however, as the statement points to the chronic shortage of controllers, whether union members or not, which has caused air traffic control disruption all year.
The union’s tactic is to leave the Minister for [...]
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