Qantas is making a dismal spectacle of itself at the IATA conference at Singapore, with CEO Alan Joyce rubbishing the premium Qantas product. Why? asks Ben Sandilands.
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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.
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.
In praise of simple check ins
The Jetstar announcement of 100% self service check-in processes in Australian airports — and the eventual charging of a fee to the digitally incompetent, raises an interesting question, says Ben Sandilands.
The Qantas list of woes continues to grow
Qantas is getting hammered, it seems, from all quarters.
Jetstar pilot contracts slammed as ‘home detention’
Independent South Australia Senator Nick Xenophon has ridiculed the new Jetstar contract for pilots as ‘treating them like Lindsay Lohan under home detention,’ reports Ben Sandilands.
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.
FAA acts on inadequate pilot training
It seems that much of the evidence given by CASA, Jetstar, Boeing Australia and other flight training programs to the senate inquiry into pilot training and airline safety may need revision, writes Ben Sandilands.
Jetstar v fools at Sydney T2
Jetstar’s decision to sue Sydney Airport if necessary for damages arising from yesterday’s security shambles means challenges the political investment in security theatrics in Australia, writes Ben Sandilands.
Jetstar to sue over airport
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Sydney Airport did its best to gloss over the security fiasco at its T2 domestic terminal yesterday.
Qantas turmoil as strike looms … but not until next month
Qantas is under pressure in the media from a rather novel union campaign, in which compliance with due process is being turned into a virtue in long-running disputes with the airline group because no one is going on strike until some time after Anzac Day and Easter.
Virgin Blue chief flies the Aussie flag at Senate inquiry
Virgin Blue’s CEO John Borghetti wrapped the group in the Australian flag and promised more local jobs and the reduction of existing off-shore activity where possible.
Qantas and Jetstar no shows before Senate today
Qantas CEO Alan Joyce and Jetstar Group CEO Bruce Buchanan are no shows at today’s public hearing by the Senate committee inquiring into pilot training and airline safety in Australia, reports Ben Sandilands.
Pilots closer to industrial action as Qantas efficiencies bite
The Australian and International Pilots Association is holding back on filing for a ballot of members to approve resorting to protected industrial action pending last-ditch negotiations over a new EBA.
Jetstar hissy fit reveals two tier pay scale for new pilots
Jetstar has revealed plans to put new pilots onto a two tier pay scheme by transferring graduates from its sham New Zealand cadet scheme onto an Australian ‘modern award’, reports Ben Sandilands.
Cadets grounded as Qantas strategy questioned by Senate
The Qantas strategy to shift jobs and tax obligations offshore through Jetstar to Singapore and New Zealand are in disarray after the low-cost subsidiary was forced to ground cadet pilots.
The Chinese planes are coming — bringing more tourism dollars
The sight of China’s airlines flying to a schedule between Broome, Darwin and Cairns to Perth, Melbourne and Sydney carrying domestic passengers may well become commonplace.
Could we have a Chinese Jetstar-like competitor?
There are some awesome implications in this morning’s announcement of a new memorandum of agreement between Australia and China on increased flights, being a 50% rise in available seats to China and a possible low-cost regional Chinese airline, reports Ben Sandilands.
Jetstar’s ingrained culture of bastardry
Less than a week after it was caught demanding a higher airfare from a nurse that broke her journey on a Jetstar flight to look after a dying passenger, the airline is making headlines for disgraceful conduct following the Christchurch earthquake, reports Ben Sandilands.
aviation industry Concerns raised about Senate testimony by Jetstar
A set of documents issued by Jetstar read like an ultra conservative fantasy about the gutting of Australian labor rules and escaping from the cost of tax and superannuation obligations, writes Ben Sandilands.
Qantas profits soar to $241 million
Qantas kept its dividends grounded today while profits soared fourfold in the six months to December 31, 2010 to a net $241 million.
The ‘extraordinary evidence’ in Jetstar near-miss probe
The pilot union AIPA has called on the federal government to pursue an apparent attempt to interfere with the evidence two Jetstar pilots were giving about a near crash.
aviation industry The Feds didn’t pursue alleged attempt to tamper with Jetstar pilots during safety inquiry
A Jetstar training captain has told the Senate inquiry into pilot training and airline safety about an apparent attempt to tamper with the evidence being given by Jetstar pilots to an ATSB inquiry, reports Ben Sandilands.
Qantas pilots dispute getting more bitter by the moment
The rhetoric in the Qantas pilots dispute today is more bitter than anything heard in airline circles since the infamous pilot strike of 1989.
