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This video shows an Auckland SkyCare employee (as a service representative to Jetstar) repeating hitting New Zealand radio personality Iain Stables multiple times in the head after a checkin dispute. Stables claimed that he arrived at the counter three minutes after Jetstar’s three-minute check-in rule. When told he was unable to fly, the employee allegedly [...]
Jetstar has launched a cadet pilot training program in Australia and New Zealand to support the airline’s expanding Asian-Pacific operations. The program was jointly developed by the Oxford Aviation Academy based in Moorabbin and the CTC Aviation Group, based in Hamilton, New Zealand – both in consultation with Jetstar. The airline will – upon successful [...]
While interviewing a Jetstar Social Media employee last week, they let it slip that the airline would be launching iPads as an IFE alternative with avionics supplier BlueBox. We talked about it only briefly before I was sworn to secrecy. The conversation did, however, inspire my last post. Chief Information Officer (CIO) of Australia’s low cost [...]
Jetstar Airways flew its inaugural Airbus 320 service into Fiji today with 140-passengers and Jetstar executives on board. The decision to fly to Fiji has fuelled speculation that Qantas is looking to offload its 46% share in Air Pacific – currently 51% owned by the Fijian Government. It’s believed that Qantas invested in Air Pacific [...]
When Jetstar made a so-called exclusive appearance on Australia’s channel 7′s morning show, Sunrise, it caught the attention of the ABC’s Media Watch program. The riveting Sunrise ‘interview’ challenges the fuzzy line and blurry interpretations between a sponsored advertisement and true editorial/news content. The painful three and a half minute interview, headlined as ‘JETSTAR’S BIG [...]
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 [...]
A Jetstar flight attendant has been photographed in the Captain’s seat of an Airbus airliner in what appears to be level flight. Crikey’s Ben Sandilands originally reported the photographs on Tuesday, and the pictures have created a bit of a buzz in aviation forums and in various media as journalists and uneducated media commentators banter [...]
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From all of the contributors at flight.org, we would like to wish you all the best of the holiday … [Read More...]
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