Tiger Airways will have a new Australian CEO within about a month, and possibly a new name to go with it.
Articles by Ben Sandilands 
No Qantas strike, but a bit of ‘This is your kamikaze speaking …’
The so-called “kamikaze” pilots at Qantas this morning announced they wouldn’t immediately strike over their unresolved EBA negotiations with the airline.
Qantas stance a game-losing own goal in pilot row
Since its pilots voted overwhelmingly to support any union call for lawful or protected industrial action, Qantas management has started arguing with its pilots about its plans to restructure the airline group rather than their pay claims for a tiny 2.5% three-year pay deal.
Sandilands: vale Atlantis, all hail Atlantis
A space shuttle called Atlantis (what was NASA thinking?) is docked like a fat dart in the side of the gigantic tubes and panels of the international space station.
What was Tiger’s original purpose and what happens now?
Tiger, for consumers, was hell. It was unreliable, unresponsive and tricky to use.
Tiger facing a slow death … or a mercy killing
Tiger Airways has now been cornered, not just by CASA but its major investor Singapore Airlines.
Qantas A380 forced to divert after flying into ash danger zone
The ATSB has revealed that a Qantas Airbus A380 flew through one of the danger zones for 15 minutes about 210 kilometres north of Nadi, Fiji, just over a week ago.
Dead Tiger bounce as carrier brings itself undone
While shares in Qantas and Virgin Australia did a “dead” Tiger bounce in trading this morning, the implication that they stood to make more money from higher fares isn’t well based.
A new world dawning as space probe closes in on asteroid
Far away from the euro crisis, Boganville and rogue attacks by volcanic ash clouds, a new world Vesta is coming into focus in the cameras of a tiny, internationally supported US spacecraft called Dawn.
Senate inquiry takes tougher approach on pilot training, safety
In lay language, the Senate inquiry into pilot training and airline safety has made a set of recommendations that would put Australia on the same page as American lawmakers in resisting the dangerous things desperate airlines have been doing to cut corners.
August 24 will be a bloody day for Qantas
It is rare for Qantas to reveal the performance of its passenger-carrying brands in isolation from each other. The current financial situation is so bad it threatens the very existence of Qantas as a group, says its CEO.
Airlines get mixed report card on volcanic ash
Today’s ash crisis for people flying in south-east Australia was not the surprise to the airlines that it may have appeared.
Phony war over volcanic ash safety policies between Virgin and Qantas/Jetstar
It could be as much as another week before the ash plumes from the Puyehue eruption in Chile have dispersed to altitudes and concentrations where they pose no risk to flights.
Who’s right in the great volcanic ash safety debate?
On the third full day of havoc resulting from clouds of volcanic ash from a Chilean eruption being blown into Australian and New Zealand airspace it remains Qantas versus everyone else (even the RAAF) when it comes to its insistence on grounding any flights.
Qantas to suffer as Virgin gets it on with Singapore Airlines
The contrast between a floundering Qantas management and Virgin Australia at the International Air Transport Association (IATA) conference in Singapore is painful to watch.
For Qantas chiefs, life in the pressure cooker will get hotter
Telling Australians that Qantas needs to be less Australian to be successful is not a winning message.
What do senators know at a hearing into CASA, air safety?
A hearing by a Senate inquiry into pilot training and air safety in Australia has adjourned in confusion after the CEO of CASA, John McCormick, said there were no current show cause notices against major Australian carriers but did not clarify whether any had been recently issued.
Singapore Airlines move to put frighteners on Qantas
Qantas and Jetstar as well as every major airline from Japan to the Middle East will be reviewing their strategies and outlook today following Singapore Airline’s decision to launch a medium-to-long-range, wide-bodied, low-fare carrier.
Qantas acting the fuel, err fool, on its Dallas route
The new Qantas flights between Australia and Dallas-Fort Worth have already inconvenienced scores of passengers.
A free feed, drink on Virgin no longer pie in the sky
Large numbers of Virgin passengers flying interstate today on its more costly or flexible economy fares found themselves getting “free” meals, and “free” beer or wine after 4pm.
The Qantas list of woes continues to grow
Qantas is getting hammered, it seems, from all quarters.
Qantas looking to fill the ‘can’t stand Jetstar’ gap
Qantas is now working on a low-cost yet high-quality Asia-based, single-aisle airline for those travellers who can’t tolerate low-quality, low-fare Jetstar.
Virgin-Delta deal leaves Qantas at sixes and sevens over no 777s
Qantas finds itself surrounded on the once lucrative routes between Australia and the US by airlines that are capitalising on the biggest fleet blunder it ever made, in choosing NOT to buy Boeing 777s.
Revised airline safety laws … funny if it wasn’t so serious
A long overdue set of revised safety laws for aviation in general in Australia, released for comment by the end of the month by CASA, have some comical provisions.
RIP Virgin Blue … rebadged as the Virgin of Oz
It’s the last blue day today for the Virgin brand in domestic airlines as the myth making cranks up a notch or two for tomorrow’s launch of Virgin Australia.
