Having amnesia about the true and documented state of affairs at Qantas is not going to help CEO Alan Joyce, writes Ben Sandilands.
Australian aviation industry
Submission to aviation green paper leads to legal intimidation
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 Ben Sandilands.
AirServices Australia go uncontrolled
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 Ben Sandilands.
Someone tell Tiger: we’re not falling for free flights any more
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 Ben Sandilands.
Dreamliner screws Qantas
Some very bad news about the Boeing 787 Dreamliner project has been let slip under the radar of the US election day, writes Ben Sandilands.
AirServices burns $1.4 billion. Who’s to pay?
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 Ben Sandilands.
Can new management fix Qantas?
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 Ben Sandilands.
Deathstar shines on far North Queensland tourism
Jetstar’s new Cairns Japan ‘solution’ is like deciding to serve the Osaka to Sydney market by making it fly there and back via Hobart, writes Ben Sandilands.
QF72’s computer glitch has happened before
Ben Sandliands writes in his blog that in-flight control excursion of QF72 was “a unique incident”. Sorry Ben, you’re dead wrong - it has happened before, writes Matthew Donald.
Was QF 72 a victim of maintenance scrimping?
Was Qantas unlucky with QF 72? Or did it make its own bad luck, only to be saved by the excellence of its pilots, asks Ben Sandilands.
QF 72 plunge: Wild ride but nobody died
There are no answers yet as to why QF 72 plunged suddenly but temporarily out of control over WA yesterday and made an emergency landing at Learmonth, writes Ben Sandilands.
Big loss on AirServices lease financing
Airservices is currently so short staffed it is refunding fees to the carriers for flights where it couldn’t provide aircraft separation, writes Ben Sandilands.
Qantas 737 saga a deadly dangerous farce
If the inability of the largest Australian airline to carry out compulsory directives isn’t a safety issue, what is, writes Ben Sandilands
Aviation and global warming: a change in the air?
Aviation in its current form is unsustainable, but do remarks this week by Environment Minister Malcolm Turnbull suggest that he’s taking the problem more seriously?
