Jetstar has fired its no doubt first of many return shots following earlier announcements by Virgin Australia of their expansionary plans for Darwin-Sydney and Darwin-Singapore services, writes Ben Sandilands.
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Jetstar stuff-up raises concerns over air safety diligence
Cockpit resource management failures kill people when they go wrong. They are a major cause of air disasters.
Asian airlines throw spanners into Qantas works
Events during the past 24 hours are not proving kind to Qantas’ ambitions in Asia. Vietnam Airlines and Malaysia Airlines have thrown spanners in the works.
Qantas v Virgin: prepare to be bribed with bonuses
Qantas now has a real threat to deal with — Virgin Australia, with its bigger, cheaper business-class seats, real meals in economy class, lounges with food and seats for everyone. With lower fares.
Post-grounding, now it’s the Qantas-Virgin bidding war
Qantas and its natural enemy, Virgin Australia, are rolling out a massive and costly bidding war to retain or gain the customers that matter, the ones who fly frequently.
Qantas and the $3b cash cushion for times just like this
Amid all the words written about the Qantas dispute this morning, no one has mentioned the most important bit of information: money.
Qantas protests nationally over an international dilemma
Most passengers who want to fly the flag to London for the Olympics next year won’t get the chance to fly Qantas, as it has cut its Heathrow airport access in half to divert resources into a new brand Q airline venture somewhere in Asia.
Ansett 10 years on — myths of the collapse continue
Ten years to the day that Ansett collapsed, some of the myths about one of Australia’s highest-profile corporate collapses persist.
WikiLeaks cable points the finger at air-safety body
Among the latest WikiLeaks cables out of the US Embassy in Canberra is one that blows away the myth making about how superbly CASA was regulating air safety in Australia, at least until the current overhaul took hold under a new director of safety.
Qantas in profit, Elvis, UFOs and no moon landings notwithstanding
This was possibly the first corporate results press conference in Australia in which a CEO invoked Elvis Presley and UFOs at Roswell.
Qantas: Katter says buy it back, Xenophon wants audit of losses
The political dimension of the Qantas restructuring had a high-noon blast-off in Canberra today when members of all parties held a press conference with key Qantas unions officials.
For Qantas staff, it’s death by a thousand cuts
Qantas released the first part of its international restructuring this morning, cutting its frequencies into London Heathrow by almost half in favour of handing Bangkok and Hong Kong services to British Airways, and says this will save it the need for four Boeing 747-400s and about 1000 jobs.
Tiger to fly again, but given losses, what about fare hikes?
It will be a much leaner Tiger than before, concentrating on a small range of major domestic routes including Sydney-Melbourne, Adelaide, Perth, Brisbane and the Gold Coast but details of fares and frequencies have not yet been released.
Jetstar defends slave labour conditions
ABC TV Lateline investigation of Jetstar labor arrangements on ‘tag’ services — including 20 hour shifts and slave labour rates — raises some severe safety concerns for Australian travellers, writes 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.
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.
Your Say: Daily Mail readers' feedback: Vancouver rioters are criminals
Crikey readers have their say.
Letter from Jetstar group CEO, Bruce Buchanan
Jetstar’s group CEO, Bruce Buchanan, has responded to a report published in Crikey last week examining the Senate Inquiry into pilot training and airline safety.
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.
Weird maths and the Australian ash crisis
The question arises as to whether some of the carriers are plucking their numbers for affected passengers out of thin air, writes Ben Sandilands.
Ash cloud lifts, well, mostly
The brighter outlook for volcanic ash clearance from SE Australian skies this morning has lead to a comprehensive review of Qantas and Jetstar operations, reports Ben Sandilands.
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.
The fish was a little….wormy: worm found in Jetstar’s nasi lemak
Jetstar’s recent worm incident makes airline history in that it is the first time on the public record that an airline has voluntarily identified an object in a meal as a ‘worm’ rather than a ‘maggot,’ writes Ben Sandilands.
