Joyce: Jetstar can’t ease the squeezeQantas head Alan Joyce admits Jetstar is limited in its capacity to ease profit and capacity pressure on the parents company.
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Business for Qantas can never be the same again
The old pyramid shaped revenue model where most of the money was made from the smallest cadre of high fare paying frequent flyers was fatally wounded by the rise of low cost carriers.
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.
Fool levy or fuel surcharge? Cheap oil hurts airline credibility
The airlines are scrambling today to deal with fuel below the $US 55 parity pricing benchmark, which makes their fuel surcharges look like a blatant rip-off, writes 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.
Tiger and Jetstar in battle of spin
On Friday, Tiger announced it would quit Darwin only a few hours before Jetstar was heaping praise on the NT government. Let’s take a look at what’s really going on, writes Ben Sandilands.
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Jetstar: they lied and they stole my money
Peter Faris is not a happy Jetstar trraveller.
Virgin and Jetstar go head to head over Launceston
In pilot parlance passenger flights by Virgin Blue and Jetstar played “swish swish” over Launceston Airport last Thursday night, just after the control tower closed at 10pm, writes Ben Sandilands.
Flying blind: time to look at our air infrastructure
The combination of dark skies and dark runways ought to be causing concern in the government, writes Ben Sandilands.
Tips and rumours
Another rogue doctor within NSW Health will be emerging soon. Why is it difficult in the culture of medicos protecting each other for Health Executives to eliminate the poor performers?
MBF purchase by BUPA smells. $3m to MBF executives. No need for MBF to sell. The biggest thing that no-one is seeing is that MBF’s previous […]
Tips and rumours
The Liberals spent just under $1.1 million of Tom Tate’s own money on the Gold Coast - it is an unmitigated disaster in anyone’s book.
Jetstar have a 36,000 seats for $36 sale — but you have to leave Tuesday, Wednesday or Saturday and can only take carry on baggage… who can actually use it…
I noticed the following […]
Jetstar leaves Launceston in the dark?
Jetstar is under the Australian Transport Safety Bureau spotlight for allegedly taking off Launceston Airport for Sydney last Wednesday night in total darkness, writes Ben Sandilands.
Tips and rumours
Is The West Australian going to put new Opposition Leader in WA, Troy Buswell out of his misery? Troy Buswell was recently elected Liberal Leader despite revelations that he got drunk at Parliament and undid the bra of an unwilling female Labor staffer. Apparently this staffer is yet to return to work after the incident. […]
Jetstar annoys customers again
Jetstar’s latest stunt of offering a few 5 cent tickets played out in the predictable way last night – untold thousands of desperates wasted hours on an over-loaded website failing to get the advertised seats, writes Michael Pascoe.
Jetstar at Tulla, TAM at Sao Paulo. Spot the difference
An international A320 captain who has reviewed the preliminary Australian Transport Safety Bureau report into the botched Jetstar aborted landing at Melbourne Airport in July says there is one element in common with the disaster the same month when TAM crashed the same type of jet into a building after failing to stop on the runway at Sao Paulo Airport.
Jetstar A320 43 feet from disaster: report
The preliminary report by the Australian Transport Safety Bureau into a double missed approach to Melbourne Airport in fog by a Jetstar A320 on 21 July points to a critical error that caused the jet to sink close to the ground instead of climbing away as intended, writes Ben Sandilands.
Class warfare starts between Virgin and Qantas
Any lingering doubts about Virgin Blue going after Qantas rather than Jetstar or Tiger disappeared at noon today when it announced a “red leather” premium economy class for all jets, writes Ben Sandilands.
Fog continues to obscure Jetstar’s near miss
Fog continues to shroud the circumstances in which a Jetstar A320 narrowly missed hitting the ground during an aborted approach to Melbourne Airport on July 21, writes Ben Sandilands.
Boeing delays a boon for Qantas
Qantas has a lot riding on the overnight announcement of a six months delay in deliveries of the “plastic fantastic” Boeing 787 Dreamliner. It is the biggest customer for the jet, with 65 on order and another 50 optioned or available under purchase agreements., writes Ben Sandilands.
Tiger mauled by Death Star in latest fare war
Tiger Airways was mauled overnight by Jetstar on the Melbourne-Perth route, in the latest cat fight between the two airlines claiming to be the cheapest on any route they fly.
Are we headed for a major airline crash in Australia?
The increased frequency of serious incidents makes this a legitimate question. There has never been such a proliferation of “near things” in Australian aviation, writes Ben Sandilands.
Jetstar near miss gets an independent inquiry … finally
The Phuket crash follows closely on the belated decision to hold an Australian inquiry into a bad weather incident involving a Jetstar flight that had a much happier ending.
Wheels up? Wheels down? Jetstar continues to contradict itself
Jetstar continues to say contradictory things about the double missed approach by one of its A320s to Melbourne Airport on July 21, in which the flight from Christchurch came to within 20 feet of the ground in fog after the pilots decided not to land in the conditions, writes Ben Sandilands.
Where is the inquiry into Jetstar’s aborted landing?
Jetstar’s explanations of how one of its jets came to within 20 feet of the ground during an aborted landing at Melbourne is in some doubt, writes Ben Sandilands.
