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	<title>Crikey &#187; australian aviation industry</title>
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		<title>CASA must act now to prosecute over Pel-Air crash</title>
		<link>http://www.crikey.com.au/2009/11/20/casa-must-act-now-to-prosecute-over-pel-air-crash/</link>
		<comments>http://www.crikey.com.au/2009/11/20/casa-must-act-now-to-prosecute-over-pel-air-crash/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 20 Nov 2009 02:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ben Sandilands</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Media]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[airline disaster]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[australian aviation industry]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[aviation industry]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[CASA]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Pel-Air Aviation]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[The pilot of the Pel-Air Westwind that crashed off Norfolk Island on Wednesday apparently took off with inadequate fuel supplies. He, and his airline, must be prosecuted.]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>22</slash:comments>
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		<title>Attention all media: an Australian jet crashed last night</title>
		<link>http://www.crikey.com.au/2009/11/19/attention-all-media-an-australian-jet-crashed-last-night/</link>
		<comments>http://www.crikey.com.au/2009/11/19/attention-all-media-an-australian-jet-crashed-last-night/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 19 Nov 2009 02:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ben Sandilands</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Companies]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[airline crashes]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[australian aviation industry]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[aviation industry]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[aviation safety]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[CareFlight]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Norfolk Island]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Pel-Air Aviation]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Jet crashes are rare in Australia, but one happened last night at Norfolk Island and no-one in the media noticed. All six people on board the CareFlight medical evacuation jet have survived
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		<slash:comments>5</slash:comments>
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		<title>Violent plunges of QF72 remain a mystery</title>
		<link>http://www.crikey.com.au/2009/11/18/violent-plunges-of-qf72-remain-a-mystery/</link>
		<comments>http://www.crikey.com.au/2009/11/18/violent-plunges-of-qf72-remain-a-mystery/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 18 Nov 2009 02:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ben Sandilands</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Companies]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Paywall]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[airline safety]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[australian aviation industry]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[aviation industry]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Qantas]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Heads hit the roof when a Qantas A300 dipped and dived off Western Australia last year. But a second interim report released today holds no certain answers.]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>5</slash:comments>
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		<title>Credibility of Qantas on line over &#8220;unusual vibrations&#8221; aka a flaming engine</title>
		<link>http://www.crikey.com.au/2009/11/16/credibility-of-qantas-on-line-over-unusual-vibrations-aka-a-flaming-engine/</link>
		<comments>http://www.crikey.com.au/2009/11/16/credibility-of-qantas-on-line-over-unusual-vibrations-aka-a-flaming-engine/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 16 Nov 2009 02:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ben Sandilands</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Companies]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Paywall]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[ATSB]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[australian aviation industry]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[aviation industry]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[aviation safety]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[CASA]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Qantas]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[The scorched engine at the centre of the latest allegations about safety standards at Qantas is now being examined by the independent air safety investigator, and the credibility of two unions, the airline’s management and the air safety regulation enforce are all on the line.]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>0</slash:comments>
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		<title>Virgin&#8217;s Velocity Gold blue</title>
		<link>http://www.crikey.com.au/2009/11/16/virgins-velocity-gold-blue/</link>
		<comments>http://www.crikey.com.au/2009/11/16/virgins-velocity-gold-blue/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 16 Nov 2009 02:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Crikey</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Companies]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Paywall]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[australian aviation industry]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[aviation industry]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[rewards programs]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Virgin Blue]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Virgin Velocity]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Personalising a free upgrade in writing and then rescinding it entirely is just a "douche-bag move", writes a Crikey reader angered at Friday's Virgin Blue stuff up.]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>7</slash:comments>
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		<title>Jetstar creates a jet stir in Vietnam</title>
		<link>http://www.crikey.com.au/2009/11/11/jetstar-creates-a-jet-stir-in-vietnam/</link>
		<comments>http://www.crikey.com.au/2009/11/11/jetstar-creates-a-jet-stir-in-vietnam/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 11 Nov 2009 02:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ben Sandilands</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Companies]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[australian aviation industry]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[aviation industry]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Jetstar]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Jetstar Pacific]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Qantas]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[vietnam]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Vietnam Airlines]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[The $A53.9 million Qantas investment in Jetstar Pacific has flown into an ideological chasm in the ranks of the Communist Party and government in Vietnam, and it isn't clear how it can escape.
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		<slash:comments>1</slash:comments>
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		<title>Safety screwed over wrong washer</title>
		<link>http://www.crikey.com.au/2009/11/03/safety-screwed-over-wrong-washer/</link>
		<comments>http://www.crikey.com.au/2009/11/03/safety-screwed-over-wrong-washer/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 03 Nov 2009 02:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ben Sandilands</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Companies]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[ALAEA]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[australian aviation industry]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[aviation industry]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[aviation safety]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[CASA]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Qantas]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[The aircraft engineers union is pursuing claims that Qantas avoided a detailed safety investigation of a 747 last year, which could have caused some of its engines to fall off in flight.
]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>1</slash:comments>
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		<title>Memo CASA chief: an uncritical media is not your friend</title>
		<link>http://www.crikey.com.au/2009/10/30/memo-casa-chief-an-uncritical-media-is-not-your-friend/</link>
		<comments>http://www.crikey.com.au/2009/10/30/memo-casa-chief-an-uncritical-media-is-not-your-friend/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 30 Oct 2009 02:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ben Sandilands</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Companies]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[airline safety]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[australian aviation industry]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[aviation industry]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[CASA]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[John McCormick]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[The underlying managerial culture of modern enterprises is to push productivity to within a millimetre of breaking the people or the equipment, and to lift output year in year out. Unfortunately in the airline game, that can kill hundreds of people at once.
]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>1</slash:comments>
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		<title>Qantas report stands like a beacon of poor corporate governance</title>
		<link>http://www.crikey.com.au/2009/10/22/qantas-report-stands-like-a-beacon-of-poor-corporate-governance/</link>
		<comments>http://www.crikey.com.au/2009/10/22/qantas-report-stands-like-a-beacon-of-poor-corporate-governance/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 22 Oct 2009 02:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Adam Schwab</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Companies]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[australian aviation industry]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[aviation industry]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Qantas]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[The Qantas 2009 Remuneration Report stands out like a beacon of poor corporate governance. That a majority of institutional shareholders could actually vote in favour of the resolution makes you wonder: exactly who is watching the watchers? 
]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>2</slash:comments>
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		<title>Chilling out on Jetstar: cash grab or coincidence?</title>
		<link>http://www.crikey.com.au/2009/10/19/chilling-out-on-jetstar-cash-grab-or-coincidence/</link>
		<comments>http://www.crikey.com.au/2009/10/19/chilling-out-on-jetstar-cash-grab-or-coincidence/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 19 Oct 2009 02:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ben Sandilands</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Companies]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[air conditioning]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[australian aviation industry]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[aviation industry]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Jetstar]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Flying Jetstar? Pack a pashima, because if one <em>Crikey</em> reader's complaint is correct, they may try and freeze the loose change out of your pockets.]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>9</slash:comments>
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		<title>Questions by the plane load for Qantas AGM</title>
		<link>http://www.crikey.com.au/2009/10/14/questions-by-the-plane-load-for-qantas-agm/</link>
		<comments>http://www.crikey.com.au/2009/10/14/questions-by-the-plane-load-for-qantas-agm/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 14 Oct 2009 02:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ben Sandilands</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Companies]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[australian aviation industry]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[aviation industry]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[geoff dixon]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Jetstar]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Qantas]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.crikey.com.au/2009/10/14/questions-by-the-plane-load-for-qantas-agm/</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[The most urgent question for shareholders at next week’s Qantas AGM in Perth isn’t the lavish reward to former CEO Geoff Dixon, but whether the group’s toxic management culture will destroy his replacement Alan Joyce and cripple the carrier.]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>1</slash:comments>
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		<title>Qantas: The chance for answers goes west</title>
		<link>http://www.crikey.com.au/2009/10/12/qantas-the-chance-for-answers-goes-west/</link>
		<comments>http://www.crikey.com.au/2009/10/12/qantas-the-chance-for-answers-goes-west/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 12 Oct 2009 02:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Glenn Dyer</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Companies]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[australian aviation industry]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[aviation industry]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[geoff dixon]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Jetstar]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Qantas]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[qantas shares]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Qantas shareholders meet next week in faraway Perth -- well away from where the majority of shareholders actually live. What is Qantas hiding from?

]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>1</slash:comments>
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		<title>How Geoff Dixon&#8217;s millions grounded  Qantas</title>
		<link>http://www.crikey.com.au/2009/09/22/how-geoff-dixons-millions-grounded-qantas/</link>
		<comments>http://www.crikey.com.au/2009/09/22/how-geoff-dixons-millions-grounded-qantas/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 22 Sep 2009 03:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Adam Schwab</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Companies]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Alan Joyce]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[australian aviation industry]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[aviation industry]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[executive salaries]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[geoff dixon]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Qantas]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.crikey.com.au/2009/09/22/how-geoff-dixons-millions-grounded-qantas/</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[For eight years, former Qantas CEO Geoff Dixon was the highest paid airline executive in the world, despite a pretty mediocre performance in the job. The irony hasn't been lost on the company's embattled workforce. ]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>6</slash:comments>
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		<title>Airlines nosedive overseas while Oz planes defy gravity</title>
		<link>http://www.crikey.com.au/2009/07/31/airlines-nosedive-overseas-while-oz-planes-defy-gravity/</link>
		<comments>http://www.crikey.com.au/2009/07/31/airlines-nosedive-overseas-while-oz-planes-defy-gravity/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 31 Jul 2009 03:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ben Sandilands</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Companies]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[australian aviation industry]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[aviation industry]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Lufthansa]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Qantas]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Singapore Airlines]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Australian airlines continue to defy gravity, despite the sharp dives into quarterly losses posted overnight by Singapore Airlines and Lufthansa.]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>0</slash:comments>
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		<title>Sydney airport at Richmond? So funny it might not be serious</title>
		<link>http://www.crikey.com.au/2009/07/13/sydney-airport-at-richmond-so-funny-it-might-not-be-serious/</link>
		<comments>http://www.crikey.com.au/2009/07/13/sydney-airport-at-richmond-so-funny-it-might-not-be-serious/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 13 Jul 2009 02:30:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ben Sandilands</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Companies]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[airports]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[australian aviation industry]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[aviation industry]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Sydney Airport]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[The Board of Airline Representatives of Australia has to be kidding if it really, truly, wants the Federal Government to build a second Sydney airport at the RAAF base at Richmond.]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>10</slash:comments>
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		<title>Oz vs NZ: Qantas attack</title>
		<link>http://www.crikey.com.au/2009/02/17/oz-vs-nz-qantas-attack/</link>
		<comments>http://www.crikey.com.au/2009/02/17/oz-vs-nz-qantas-attack/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 16 Feb 2009 14:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Crikey</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Politics]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Air New Zealand]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[australian aviation industry]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Global Financial Crisis]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Qantas]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Singapore Airlines]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Virgin Blue]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[While the rest of the world’s air transport market goes into shock, Qantas has gone after the struggling Air New Zealand with massive force, writes <b>Ben Sandilands</b>.]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>3</slash:comments>
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		<title>The airbus beast emerges French style</title>
		<link>http://www.crikey.com.au/2009/01/16/the-airbus-beast-emerges-french-style/</link>
		<comments>http://www.crikey.com.au/2009/01/16/the-airbus-beast-emerges-french-style/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 15 Jan 2009 14:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Crikey</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[airbus a380]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[airlines]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[The real beast within the giant Airbus A380 airliner emerged overnight with plans for an obscure French colonial carrier to buy two of them, writes <b>Ben Sandilands</b>.]]></description>
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		<title>Out of control: The air traffic staffing crisis</title>
		<link>http://www.crikey.com.au/2009/01/14/out-of-control-the-air-traffic-staffing-crisis/</link>
		<comments>http://www.crikey.com.au/2009/01/14/out-of-control-the-air-traffic-staffing-crisis/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 13 Jan 2009 14:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Crikey</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Months after airliners began to lose a reliable air traffic control system in Australia, the air safety regulator has done nothing to enforce rules about staffing levels, writes <b>Ben Sandilands</b>.]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>5</slash:comments>
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		<title>Qantas CEO glosses over airline&#8217;s safety record</title>
		<link>http://www.crikey.com.au/2008/12/09/qantas-ceo-glosses-over-airlines-safety-record/</link>
		<comments>http://www.crikey.com.au/2008/12/09/qantas-ceo-glosses-over-airlines-safety-record/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 08 Dec 2008 14:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Crikey</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Having amnesia about the true and documented state of affairs at Qantas is not going to help CEO Alan Joyce, writes <b>Ben Sandilands</b>.]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>2</slash:comments>
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		<title>Submission to aviation green paper leads to legal intimidation</title>
		<link>http://www.crikey.com.au/2008/12/05/submission-to-aviation-green-paper-leads-to-legal-intimidation/</link>
		<comments>http://www.crikey.com.au/2008/12/05/submission-to-aviation-green-paper-leads-to-legal-intimidation/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 04 Dec 2008 14:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Crikey</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[One of Australia’s most respected aviation consultants has received a "shut up or else" letter from a law firm following his contribution to the Aviation Green Paper, writes <b>Ben Sandilands</b>.]]></description>
		<wfw:commentRss>http://www.crikey.com.au/2008/12/05/submission-to-aviation-green-paper-leads-to-legal-intimidation/feed/</wfw:commentRss>
		<slash:comments>2</slash:comments>
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		<title>AirServices Australia go uncontrolled</title>
		<link>http://www.crikey.com.au/2008/12/01/airservices-australia-go-uncontrolled/</link>
		<comments>http://www.crikey.com.au/2008/12/01/airservices-australia-go-uncontrolled/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 30 Nov 2008 14:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Crikey</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Business]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[australian aviation industry]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Business economy]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Last Friday afternoon for about two hours, thousands of passengers were trapped in jets or terminals because AirServices Australia couldnt fully man the air traffic control system, writes <b>Ben Sandilands</b>.]]></description>
		<wfw:commentRss>http://www.crikey.com.au/2008/12/01/airservices-australia-go-uncontrolled/feed/</wfw:commentRss>
		<slash:comments>6</slash:comments>
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		<title>Someone tell Tiger: we&#8217;re not falling for free flights any more</title>
		<link>http://www.crikey.com.au/2008/11/19/someone-tell-tiger-were-not-falling-for-free-flights-any-more/</link>
		<comments>http://www.crikey.com.au/2008/11/19/someone-tell-tiger-were-not-falling-for-free-flights-any-more/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 18 Nov 2008 14:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Crikey</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Tiger Airways must be wondering what it has to do to give away free flights, or get free advertising, and its competitors will be asking themselves the same questions, writes <b>Ben Sandilands</b>.]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>1</slash:comments>
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		<title>Dreamliner screws Qantas</title>
		<link>http://www.crikey.com.au/2008/11/05/dreamliner-screws-qantas/</link>
		<comments>http://www.crikey.com.au/2008/11/05/dreamliner-screws-qantas/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 04 Nov 2008 14:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Crikey</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Some very bad news about the Boeing 787 Dreamliner project has been let slip under the radar of the US election day, writes <b>Ben Sandilands</b>.]]></description>
		<wfw:commentRss>http://www.crikey.com.au/2008/11/05/dreamliner-screws-qantas/feed/</wfw:commentRss>
		<slash:comments>0</slash:comments>
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		<title>AirServices burns $1.4 billion. Who&#8217;s to pay?</title>
		<link>http://www.crikey.com.au/2008/11/03/airservices-burns-14-billion-whos-to-pay/</link>
		<comments>http://www.crikey.com.au/2008/11/03/airservices-burns-14-billion-whos-to-pay/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 02 Nov 2008 14:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Crikey</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Politics]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Airservices Australia]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Is the Rudd Government about to impose a very costly version of the ‘Ansett levy’ on domestic flights to pay for a disastrous foray into foreign currency funding by AirServices Australia, asks <b>Ben Sandilands</b>.]]></description>
		<wfw:commentRss>http://www.crikey.com.au/2008/11/03/airservices-burns-14-billion-whos-to-pay/feed/</wfw:commentRss>
		<slash:comments>0</slash:comments>
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		<title>Can new management fix Qantas?</title>
		<link>http://www.crikey.com.au/2008/10/30/can-new-management-fix-qantas/</link>
		<comments>http://www.crikey.com.au/2008/10/30/can-new-management-fix-qantas/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 29 Oct 2008 14:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Crikey</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[If Cox really has such a disregard for the gravity of compulsory airworthiness directives, why is he still running the maintenance side of an airline that insists safety is of paramount concern, asks <b>Ben Sandilands</b>.]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>4</slash:comments>
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