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	<title>Crikey &#187; aviation industry</title>
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		<title>Crikey clarifier: what is wrong with out airlines?</title>
		<link>http://www.crikey.com.au/2009/11/24/crikey-clarifier-what-is-wrong-with-out-airlines/</link>
		<comments>http://www.crikey.com.au/2009/11/24/crikey-clarifier-what-is-wrong-with-out-airlines/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 24 Nov 2009 02:21:32 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ben Sandilands</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Companies]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Crikey Clarifier]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Paywall]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[airlines]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[australian airlines]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[aviation industry]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[The sense of dread in the airports and lounges is oppressive. Seats and services are getting meaner and tighter. So why are these airlines treating us like dirt? And how are they allowed to get away with it? asks <b> Ben Sandilands</b>.]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>0</slash:comments>
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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>
				<category><![CDATA[Companies]]></category>
		<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>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.crikey.com.au/2009/11/16/credibility-of-qantas-on-line-over-unusual-vibrations-aka-a-flaming-engine/</guid>
		<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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		<title>Qantas dodges BA-Iberia tie-up</title>
		<link>http://www.crikey.com.au/2009/11/16/qantas-dodges-ba-iberia-tie-up/</link>
		<comments>http://www.crikey.com.au/2009/11/16/qantas-dodges-ba-iberia-tie-up/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 16 Nov 2009 02:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Glenn Dyer</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Companies]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Paywall]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[aviation industry]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[british airways]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[geoff dixon]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Iberia]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Qantas]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.crikey.com.au/2009/11/16/qantas-dodges-ba-iberia-tie-up/</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[The proposed 4.4 billion pound merger between British Airways and Iberia of Spain is so full of holes that it could very well sink without a trace at the slightest bit of opposition.]]></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>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.crikey.com.au/2009/11/16/virgins-velocity-gold-blue/</guid>
		<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>The Tiger vs. Qantas battle is turning nasty</title>
		<link>http://www.crikey.com.au/2009/11/12/the-tiger-versus-qantas-battle-is-turning-nasty/</link>
		<comments>http://www.crikey.com.au/2009/11/12/the-tiger-versus-qantas-battle-is-turning-nasty/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 12 Nov 2009 02:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ben Sandilands</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Companies]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Aboriginal Australia]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[aviation industry]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Jetstar]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[jetstar asia]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Qantas]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Tiger Airways]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.crikey.com.au/2009/11/12/the-tiger-versus-qantas-battle-is-turning-nasty/</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[The battle of the low-cost trans-border franchises of Singapore Airlines-controlled Tiger and Qantas-directed Jetstar Asia is heating up, with Jetstar's plans to fly twice daily between Singapore and Tokyo being shot out of the sky this morning.]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>0</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>Sydney/Melbourne by plane or bust: Airbus vision kills the fast train</title>
		<link>http://www.crikey.com.au/2009/11/05/sydneymelbourne-by-plane-or-bust-airbus-vision-kills-the-fast-train/</link>
		<comments>http://www.crikey.com.au/2009/11/05/sydneymelbourne-by-plane-or-bust-airbus-vision-kills-the-fast-train/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 05 Nov 2009 02:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ben Sandilands</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Companies]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[airbus]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[aviation industry]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Melbourne]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Sydney]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[trains]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[transport]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[very fast trains]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.crikey.com.au/2009/11/05/sydneymelbourne-by-plane-or-bust-airbus-vision-kills-the-fast-train/</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[The notion of a Very Fast Train for the Melbourne-Sydney corridor has been shot down by new plans from Airbus to fly Very Large Planes between the two cities, because the entire cost, and risk, is funded by the privately owned airlines and airports.]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>54</slash:comments>
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		<title>Qantas 767 aborts 700 feet above tarmac and wheels up</title>
		<link>http://www.crikey.com.au/2009/11/03/qantas-767-aborts-700-feet-above-tarmac-and-wheels-up/</link>
		<comments>http://www.crikey.com.au/2009/11/03/qantas-767-aborts-700-feet-above-tarmac-and-wheels-up/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 03 Nov 2009 02:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ben Sandilands</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Companies]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[aviation industry]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[aviation safety]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[boeing 767s]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Qantas]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.crikey.com.au/2009/11/03/qantas-767-aborts-700-feet-above-tarmac-and-wheels-up/</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Last week, just 700 feet from landing, Qantas pilots were forced to abort a landing when it was realised that the wheels had not been lowered. It was a close call for a Qantas and the Boeing 767 is to be investigated,.]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>13</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>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.crikey.com.au/2009/11/03/safety-screwed-over-wrong-washer/</guid>
		<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.
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		<slash:comments>1</slash:comments>
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		<title>Qantas flies underwater for the first quarter</title>
		<link>http://www.crikey.com.au/2009/11/02/qantas-flies-underwater-for-the-first-quarter/</link>
		<comments>http://www.crikey.com.au/2009/11/02/qantas-flies-underwater-for-the-first-quarter/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 02 Nov 2009 02:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ben Sandilands</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Companies]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[aviation industry]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Qantas]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.crikey.com.au/2009/11/02/qantas-flies-underwater-for-the-first-quarter/</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Qantas group operational statistics for September confirm that the airline has been flying at a loss for the first quarter of this financial year -- just how deep the total group loss will be depends largely on the success of its sales of "loyalty" frequent flyer points.]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>0</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>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.crikey.com.au/2009/10/30/memo-casa-chief-an-uncritical-media-is-not-your-friend/</guid>
		<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.
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		<slash:comments>1</slash:comments>
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		<title>The JSF project &#8230; the J is for &#8216;joke&#8217;</title>
		<link>http://www.crikey.com.au/2009/10/30/crikey-clarifier-the-jsf-project-the-j-is-for-joke/</link>
		<comments>http://www.crikey.com.au/2009/10/30/crikey-clarifier-the-jsf-project-the-j-is-for-joke/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 30 Oct 2009 02:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ben Sandilands</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Companies]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Crikey Clarifier]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[United States]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[aviation industry]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[joint strike fighters]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[US Armed Forces]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.crikey.com.au/2009/10/30/crikey-clarifier-the-jsf-project-the-j-is-for-joke/</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[The JSF or Joint Strike Fighter is a massively hyped, much-delayed defence project by which a single type of jet will supposedly defend the US and its  allies from baddies. Think of a super duper X-box with wings. It has got everything. Or has it? asks <b>Ben Sandilands</b>.

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		<slash:comments>25</slash:comments>
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		<title>Singapore Airlines tries to get a grip</title>
		<link>http://www.crikey.com.au/2009/10/26/singapore-airlines-tries-to-get-a-grip/</link>
		<comments>http://www.crikey.com.au/2009/10/26/singapore-airlines-tries-to-get-a-grip/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 26 Oct 2009 02:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ben Sandilands</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Companies]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[airfares]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[aviation industry]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Singapore Airlines]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Singapore Airlines is claiming to be acting for everyone, not just itself, by encouraging travellers to buy cheap fares to European cities.]]></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? 
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		<slash:comments>2</slash:comments>
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		<title>Virgin&#8217;s wheel of fire at the hub of wider problems</title>
		<link>http://www.crikey.com.au/2009/10/21/virgins-wheel-of-fire-at-the-hub-of-wider-problems/</link>
		<comments>http://www.crikey.com.au/2009/10/21/virgins-wheel-of-fire-at-the-hub-of-wider-problems/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 21 Oct 2009 02:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ben Sandilands</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Companies]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[aircraft engineers union]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[aviation]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[aviation industry]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[aviation safety]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Steve Purvinas]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Virgin Blue]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Virgin Blue lawyers are crawling over the words of aircraft engineers union federal secretary Steve Purvinas like ants over road kill this morning, but what is really going on?]]></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>Harsh US airline penalties highlight lack of them here</title>
		<link>http://www.crikey.com.au/2009/10/15/harsh-us-airline-penalties-highlight-lack-of-them-here/</link>
		<comments>http://www.crikey.com.au/2009/10/15/harsh-us-airline-penalties-highlight-lack-of-them-here/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 15 Oct 2009 02:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ben Sandilands</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Companies]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[aviation industry]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[aviation safety]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[FAA]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Qantas]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[United Airlines]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[US Airways]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Aviation safety regulation in this country is incompetent and ethically corrupt, and significant ministerial oversight hasn’t existed for at least 50 years.

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		<slash:comments>5</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>

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		<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?

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		<slash:comments>1</slash:comments>
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		<title>In tourism, even libel can be a world away</title>
		<link>http://www.crikey.com.au/2009/10/07/in-tourism-even-libel-can-be-a-world-away/</link>
		<comments>http://www.crikey.com.au/2009/10/07/in-tourism-even-libel-can-be-a-world-away/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 07 Oct 2009 02:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ben Sandilands</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Companies]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[airline crashes]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[aviation industry]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[brazil]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[freedom of speech]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Joe Sharkey]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[journalistic ethics]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[travel industry]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Libel tourism has been catapulted into the headlines after aviation writer Joe Sharkey was served a writ for defamatory statements he says he didn’t make in Brazil after surviving a mid-air collision in 2006.]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>0</slash:comments>
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		<title>The tragedy of Boeing&#8217;s demise</title>
		<link>http://www.crikey.com.au/2009/10/07/the-tragedy-of-boeings-demise/</link>
		<comments>http://www.crikey.com.au/2009/10/07/the-tragedy-of-boeings-demise/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 07 Oct 2009 02:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ben Sandilands</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Companies]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[aviation industry]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Boeing]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Boeing 747-8]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[boeing 787]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[In many respects, Boeing is a metaphor for failed corporations, and the wider failings of modern US business managements to engage with the realities of design and production.
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		<slash:comments>3</slash:comments>
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		<title>Pilots challenge Air France with their AF 447 crash &#8216;truth&#8217;</title>
		<link>http://www.crikey.com.au/2009/10/06/pilots-challenge-air-france-with-their-af-447-crash-truth/</link>
		<comments>http://www.crikey.com.au/2009/10/06/pilots-challenge-air-france-with-their-af-447-crash-truth/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 06 Oct 2009 02:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ben Sandilands</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Companies]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[AF 447 crash]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Air France]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[airbus]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[aviation industry]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[aviation safety]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Two Air France pilots have challenged Airbus and the French air crash investigators to face up to critical factors in the June 1 crash of flight AF447 in the mid-Atlantic, which killed all 228 people on board.]]></description>
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