Singapore Airlines is claiming to be acting for everyone, not just itself, by encouraging travellers to buy cheap fares to European cities.
Singapore Airlines
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.
Singapore Airlines’ gift to cattle class
The bean counters love a seat squeeze on planes. The latest version of this sort of bastardry is the changing of nine across seating in economy in Boeing 777s to ten across. But Singapore Airlines has drawn a line.
A swine of a month for Singapore Airlines
Add the swine flu pandemic, which kills travel but leaves most people unharmed, to the global financial crisis, which cripples discretionary and corporate spending, and you get a very, very bad month for Singapore Airlines, writes Ben Sandilands.
Tiger Airways outlines Oz expansion plans
A rapidly expanding Tiger seems as near a certainty as anything can be in the airlines game. It will really gain momentum in July when it begins the Sydney-Melbourne route, says Ben Sandilands.
Qantas has confessed, now Singpaore and Emirates face ACCC
Emirates and Singapore Airlines have lost a Federal Court bid to prevent their pursuit by the ACCC for fixing fuel and security surcharges, writes Ben Sandilands.
Death by pinstripes: airlines lose their best clients
There aren’t enough masters of the universe doing the longest non-stop business commute on the planet to keep it fully alive any more, writes Ben Sandilands.
Oz vs NZ: Qantas attack
While the rest of the world’s air transport market goes into shock, Qantas has gone after the struggling Air New Zealand with massive force, writes Ben Sandilands.
Qantas throws a match into bonfire of the airlines
The QF+BA “merger of equals” discussion, which sources credit to former Qantas CEO Geoff Dixon, is to consolidation what the assassination of Archduke Ferdinand was to world peace in 1914, 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.
Sacre bleu: Qantas and Virgin lust after Air France
The three most important words in this morning’s stellar Qantas half yearly financials mightn’t be “profits up 73%”, but “alternative ownership options,” writes Ben Sandilands.
Tiger Airways sweating over delayed domestic debut
Tiger Airways’ domestic debut this Friday is coming down to the wire, writes Ben Sandilands.
Is News Limited holier than Fairfax?
Is editorial integrity in better shape at News Limited than at Fairfax? Despite the continuing idiosyncrasies of The Australian, it seems that it might be so, writes Margaret Simons.
Dead diggers and big jets: blurring the line at the SMH
Today Sydney Morning Herald editor Alan Oakley is expected to address his staff over a dispute that blew up last Thursday afternoon, whenice sub-editors were asked to process a four page wraparound to Friday’s paper the arrival of the Singapore Airlines Airbus A380 in Sydney, writes Maragret Simons.
Who wants to buy Virgin Blue?
The chances of something much bigger than a change in control of Virgin Blue occurring by year’s end are rising after its founding CEO Brett Godfrey told reporters at yesterday’s AGM that he wouldn’t stick around under the”‘wrong” owners, writes Ben Sandilands.
Green with envy: A380 secrets revealed
Who better to give a commentary on the “secrets” of the Singapore Airlines’ first A380 in Toulouse this week than resident Qantas engineer Paul O’Donohue, writes Ben Sandilands.
When “open skies” means “closed skies”
The skies won’t be tooo friendly for Singapore Airlines when Australia signs a new aviation agreement with the US in the new year.
Qantas sale act about to be quartered?
Is the ownership of Qantas about to become an election issue months after the parties saw the politically charged debate over the APA private equity bid go away? We may know this afternoon, writes Ben Sandilands.
Selling the farm to Singapore. And China. And Dubai
The Singapore and Chinese Governments are continuing to show a remarkable appetite for high profile global investments after agreeing to stump up more than $20 billion to become the largest shareholders in leading British bank Barclays to help funds its takeover of Dutch rival ABN Amro.
The new Qantas logo: the roo survives
Qantas unveils its new-look logo. But there’s more to the story, writes Ben Sandilands.
Dodgy electrics: Qantas sticks with Singaporean maintenance
Qantas was unable to confirm or deny credible information this morning that it would soon send another of its jets to the same Singapore Airlines Engineering Company that ripped it off last year with dodgy repairs, reports Ben Sandilands.
Cruising at altitude: the state of bliss approach to Australian jet safety
Sharp words are being exchanged in Singapore between a senior “airworthiness official” from the Civil Aviation Safety Authority and the Singapore Airlines Engineering Company that comprehensively botched the servicing of a Qantas 747-400 last year.
Return of the Qantas ‘Behemoth’?
Can Geoff Dixon’s ‘behemoth’, or the unfair combination of rich foreign airlines plotting to destroy Qantas, be about to make a return?
Australian skies set to become Tigerland by year’s end
Tiger Airways has sprung an extra 50 Airbus A320s on Qantas/Jetstar and Virgin Blue with an order that could take the Singaporean revenge for the Jetstar Asia provocation to 70 jets by 2012.
Putting the economy into aviation fuel economy
Jet flight is getting greener, but what the airlines don’t want to talk about is that you will pay for it with your kneecaps.
