Ben Sandilands looks at the bums on seats on Virgin and Qantas planes in a side-by-side comparison.
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Qantas flies away from Dreamliner deal. What next?
Having canceled 15 Dreamliners, Qantas is working out how to fill any gaps left by a 787 situation that is now looking worse by the day.
Qantas’ lucky escape from a British Airways merger
Qantas’s infatuation with a merger with British Airways late last year has been shown up as the aviation equivalent of buying the Sydney Harbour Bridge.
Fire on a Jetstar flight put out textbook style
If you are going to have a fire on an airliner at cruising altitude, having it right beside the first officer who is already waiting with a fire extinguisher is the best place for it.
MacBank promises much, but fails to deliver, again
Yesterday Macquarie were embarrassed when their ham-fisted attempt to gazump the China Minmetals’ cash offer for assets in OZ Minerals, fell over, again in an embarrassing fashion.
Your Say: Daily Mail readers' feedback: Qantas responds to Crikey about inflight news censoring
Qantas does not seek to influence Channel Nine’s on air content. We do exercise this right of veto for items we believe may distress or offend our passengers, writes Michael Freedman.
Qantas: Big Brother or nanny jet?
The Qantas “nanny jet” syndrome struck again as all references to the Air France disaster were censored from its Channel Nine news package.
CASA air safety and regulation ruin
Air safety and its regulation in FNQ have been in disgrace for years, writes Ben Sandilands.
Nine News censor plane disaster story to protect Qantas
Nine News didn’t mention the major story of the Air France disaster in their morning news bulletin because the programme is also shown on Qantas flights throughout that day, reports mUmBRELLA.
Qantas-Woolworths loyalty monopoly
The long previewed points earning linkage between Woolworths and Qantas gets yet another media launch today, this time with a start date and some interesting extra spin.
Morning Market Report: A quiet start to the week
The market is up 34, while the Dow is up 96.
Virgin pressure on Qantas mounts
The latest traffic figures for Qantas continue to pile the pressure on to its full service domestic product, which is losing altitude steeply as Virgin Blue, its own Jetstar and Tiger all continue to grow strongly at its expense.
Want leg room? Well pay for it, says Qantas
The days of queuing up early at Qantas check-in counters to try and score an exit row seat on long international flights are soon to end.
Qantas beware: Virgins running amok!
Virgin Blue is leading Qantas on domestic routes in the latest traffic figures posted to the ASX this morning and it is clear Qantas has to do something to stay competitive.
Jungle warfare rages with Tiger poker
High stakes poker is now being played by Qantas/Jetstar, Virgin Blue and Tiger Airways over the Tiger’s plans to develop a significant Sydney hub.
Tiger lands growing traffic figures as rivals struggle
Tiger Airway’s passenger numbers rose 8.7%, in March. These would be good numbers in good times, let alone bad times.
Jetstar turns cannibal to subdue the Tiger
Jetstar looks set to “accidentally” take on its parent airline Qantas on the Melbourne-Sydney route for the greater goal of keeping Tiger Airways in its cage.
The truth about swine flu and air travel
Neither Qantas nor V Australia are carrying swine flu information for travellers on the primary or booking pages of their web sites.
Jetstar continues to defy gravity
Compared to March last year, Jetstar’s head count rose 1.8%, and it lifted its seats filled factor by 3.1 percentage points.
Qantas asks how Emirates’ near crash flew under radar
Sometime early in April, Qantas senior management is believed to have put rockets up News and Fairfax senior management.
Now open, the Crikey angry flyers’ lounge
Tiger Airways had now said sorry three times in six days to angry customers and the RSL.
‘Dame’ Margaret Jackson’s beautiful career
There’s nothing much to celebrate in Margaret Jackson’s string of questionable directorships.
Joyce: Jetstar can’t ease the squeeze
Qantas head Alan Joyce admits Jetstar is limited in its capacity to ease profit and capacity pressure on the parents company.
Business travel gets meaner and tighter
Few business travellers paying for business class fares could spell the end of Qantas domestic business class as we know it.
Corporate carnage continues across Australia
The wheels are fast falling off some of Australia’s industrial success stories of the past decade.
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