Who else is about to declare their candidacy for the Bradfield byelection? Further Jetstar and Qantas dealings and which state premier has been spotted jaywalking?
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Tips and rumours: Tips and rumours: Bradfield byelection heats up
Tips and rumours: Bouquets and brickbats for Qantas
In today’s tips & rumours sections, Crikey’s anonymous tipsters tell us that Qantas is running on time… even if it’s pissing off frequent flyers and website users. Oh well, win some, lose some.
Tips and rumours: Tips and rumours: who are potential Bradfield candidates?
Who is the new big name being touted as a possible candidate for the Bradfield byelection? Plus further woes for Qantas, and is Lufthansa more expensive for Australians than Germans?
Virgin posts $160m loss
Virgin Blue this morning confirmed a loss of $160 million for the year to June 30 while the guessing game about its recent strong share price performance continues.
Tips and rumours: Tips and rumours: Performance reviews for Fairfax bosses
Fairfax media does performance reviews, further troubles for Qantas and which towns are listed as high risk for the upcoming Victorian bushfire season?
Tips and rumours: Tips and rumours: Machinations in Qld politics continue
Anna Bligh continues to feel the heat over the QCU anti-privatisation campaign, when ATMs die, Qantas’ IT woes and more tips from our readers.
Tips and rumours: No Bandidos clubhouse in Bligh’s backyard?
Anna Bligh worries about new Bandidos clubhouses and further Fairfax subscription woes. Plus, who is rumoured to play Steve Irwin in the new telemovie titled Crikey?
Tips and rumours: Are you an assumed Mrs on your SMH sub?
What happens if The Sydney Morning Herald automatically assume you are a Mrs? Plus, how easy is it to use your Qantas credit?
787 becomes a moving target, again
After several delays, the No2 Dreamliner in the 787 flight test fleet has been doing taxying tests at Everett.
The short but lucrative life of a Qantas frequent flyer point
The official Qantas guide to the life of a frequent flyer point was a bonus in the airline’s results filing. It is the gold mine Qantas needs during its current crisis.
It’s a Jetstar a-rising at Qantas
The Jetstar ascendancy is now on in earnest at Qantas, says Ben Sandilands, starting with five flights daily between Melbourne’s main airport and Sydney in October that will compete directly with their own full-service Citiflyer flights.
Qantas down, Jetstar up. No happy landings
Qantas has dropped its profits even more sharply than most analysts had predicted, with announcements today that profits were down from A$1.4 billion to A$181 million.
A year in the life of Qantas
Qantas held its full year financial briefing this morning, revealing profits are down 87%, negative earnings in the second half, plans to lease more Airbus A330s, plus more premium economy and fewer business class seats.
Emirates for court in ACCC robber airlines push
The great global air freight price fixing scandal caught up with another airline in Australia today when the ACCC said it was taking Emirates to court over alleged cartel like behaviour.
V Australia’s 777 buy-up will bite Qantas
Qantas made an incredibly inept decision by choosing to buy a large fleet of Boeing 787 Dreamliners, and not buying Boeing 777s. With the latter optimised for long-haul flights, V Australia’s new 777 fleet will allow it to offer a very attractive alternative to Qantas and Jetstar.
Sydney loses its stranglehold on international flights
Virgin Blue played the Melbourne-versus-Sydney card hard today, with the announcement that flights by its V Australia subsidiary will go directly from Johannesburg to Melbourne.
Boeing 787 no dream for Qantas
Qantas are yet to say anything in response to the serious issues involving the Boeing 787 Dreamliner program, although they have 50 Dreamliners on firm order.
Tips and rumours: Langbroek staff forced out?
Have four employees of Queensland opposition leader John-Paul Langbroek’s office been forced out? Also, Qantas re-using their plastic knives and trouble at St George.
Airlines nosedive overseas while Oz planes defy gravity
Australian airlines continue to defy gravity, despite the sharp dives into quarterly losses posted overnight by Singapore Airlines and Lufthansa.
The dawn of the jet age (and Qantas bag)
This afternoon 50 years ago saw the start of the jet age for passengers in Australia, and on the Pacific. Ben Sandilands, the last full-time shipping cadet at The Sydney Morning Herald, reflects.
Boeing’s hopes for its Dreamliner are turning into nightmares
The Dreamliner 787 is now in limbo: a family of jets for which there is no first flight date, no flight testing and certification schedule, and no performance parameters for the airlines that ordered them.
Tiger will push Qantas to eat its own
Tiger’s move on the key Sydney-Melbourne route will force big changes at Qantas.
Qantas and Virgin go to war with Tiger
Qantas and Virgin Blue are being forced into a full-scale fare war with Tiger Airways, after the The Singapore Airlines-controlled low cost announced it is more than doubling its Sydney-Melbourne flights to up to nine daily returns from 4 October.
Anti-censorship ad hits turbulence
Qantas refuses to run GetUp’s new anti-censorship ad that lampoons the government’s net filters while GlaxoSmithKline says they may sue over its infringement on the ‘Sensodyne’ trademark, reports Asher Moses.
Air war over the Pacific and Atlantic routes
Just how far can airlines go in cooperative joint ventures, marketing alliances, or route mergers?
