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Alan Kohler, from the Australian Broadcasting Corporation’s ‘Inside Business’ program interviewed the garden gnome of the airline CEO world recently on Qantas’ 100 million dollar profit for the last financial year – down amost 90% from the previous year. Joyce cites increased competition on their most profitable routes, lower yields, and the global money meltdown [...]
The latest installment into Qantas’ ageing “I Still call Australia Home” campaign was launched nationally in Australia during the Bledisloe Cup in August. It has been met with mixed reactions from both marketeers and the audience for which it was intended – since it’s nothing more than a variation on a theme that they’ve been [...]
The preliminary occurrence report into the Qantas 747 (VH-OJK) that suffered an explosive depressurisation 475 km northwest of Manila has been released by the Australian Transport Safety Bureau (ATSB) and with it, more images of the oxygen cylinders that allegedly caused the incident. From the ATSB report: “After clearing the baggage and cargo from the [...]
Derryn Hinch is a well-known Australian journalist and media personality. He hosts a daily drive show on Melbourne’s 3AW, and today’s show was focused on Qantas and the long list of engineering and management related issues that has instigated extremely adverse public, media and regulatory scrutiny.
The results from the Skytrax World Airline Awards are in and both Qantas Airlines and Virgin Blue have made an honourable presence in the top rankings alongside some of the world’s respected airlines… reinforcing what we Aussies already know – that our airlines are among the world’s best!
If it sounds like I have unfairly criticised Qantas lately – I apologise. It’s hard not to criticise an airline that makes such a good job of doing a bad job! It was around this time nearly 19 years ago as a young and dumb kid that I was informally indoctrinated into aviation after I [...]
I’ve come across a few images of the Qantas 747, VH-OJK, which suffered an explosive decompression on July 25 as a result of a rogue oxygen container that damaged the forward starboard cargo compartment in flight. The oxygen cylinder (or should we call it a missile?) bounced around the cabin a little before it knocked [...]
