Ben Sandilands
Editor of Plane Talking @PlaneTalking
Ben Sandilands has reported and analysed the mechanical mobility of humanity since late 1960 - the end of the age of great scheduled ocean liners and coastal steamers and the start of the jet age. He’s worked in newspapers, radio and TV in a wide range of roles as a journalist at home and abroad for 56 years, the last 18 freelance.
How do we best equip Australia to defend itself and maintain defence credibility and superiority? The choice of an anti-submarine warfare helicopter platform for the RAN is an interesting third option, writes Ben Sandilands.
A fierce report from Australia's air safety investigator has finally slammed Jetstar's pilot training, following an incompetent and dangerously bungled landing at Tullamarine Airport several years ago.
Disagreements between Jetstar and airport owners have flared into the open, with the airline ditching flights to Rockhampton and threatening to cap or quit services to Darwin and Hobart airports, says Ben Sandilands.
There is no doubting the tactical strength of Virgin Blue’s choice of John Borghetti to succeed its co-founder Brett Godfrey as the group’s second CEO in 10 years, writes Ben Sandilands.
Virgin Blue’s confirmed appointment of John Borghetti as the successor to its founding CEO Brett Godfrey this morning piles the pressure onto Qantas to radically change and improve its business.
Virgin Blue jolted the market this morning by making more money in the first half of its financial year than the three times larger Qantas Group, the first time any Aussie airline has beaten Qantas in profits.
There has been some ugly reporting lately of a problem largely hushed up in Australia, which is the regulatory capture of air safety authorities by the airlines they are supposed to regulate. Ben Sandilands explains.
NSW Premier Kristina Keneally didn’t just kill the metro, she's also a person of interest in the case of the disappearing road map for an M5 East duplication and extension that cuts right through her electorate, writes Ben Sandilands.
NSW premier Kristina Keneally's new transport plan to do nothing in her political lifetime about Sydney transport shows she knew not to step on the minefield of policy obligations left by past disastrous policy decisions.
