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Well deserved win for Piastri, and eventually Norris did the right thing, I thought it was ironic that that whole McClaren thing was a strategic call to cover off Lewis Hamilton, which as it turned out, Hamilton may not have been such a threat as McClaren thought (given Hamiltons strategy was...

I agree that SEA seems the most plausible/sensible option being a great AS hub anyway, but its all academic and PR pipe dreams until QFi get some more aircraft, they can't even reliably fly their existing long haul network at the moment, so any more long haul destinations is very fanciful thinking.

All about accessing an East Coast workforce for MinRes and offering them better rosters and conditions as a point of differentiation, although the knee-crunching Qantas Network fleet of FIFO A320's operating out of Perth wouldn't of enamored the FIFO workforce either, plus the dreadful transcon...

I think we might see more of this in the season, as the Red Bull car does not seem to be as dominant this season (or at least at Austria) as the last few, but this was a matter of time before this happened. I recall the first few seasons of Verstappen moving around under braking and not giving...

Glad I saw it and the wet track and changeble conditions made it a race of skill and not so much horsepower or DRS, but unfortunate timing that the safety car gifted the lead to Verstappen from Norris, as the Red Bull looked unconvincing in dirty air, but is unbeatable in clear air. Piastrti...

Probably the effect of fog, a lot of regional airports without ILS so the aircraft departs the larger cities on time, but slows down and waits for fog to burn off at some regional airports. Similar to diversions around thunderstorms in summer.

The other interesting thing about the survey was using two examples of a short flight with the first example being for work purposes and the second being leisure (both examples short flights like SYD-BNE or MEL-SYD), a pretty transparent attempt to quiz people about spending their own money vs...

Seems that the ancillary revenue has dropped off a cliff lately and someone in VA has noticed it. Screenshot from a recent survey out today which should be titled "Dude - where has my ancillary revenue gone?" Their preferred seating fees for rows 6-11 are just taking the p*$$ and obviously...

I don't really understand the logic of this, if they rope off the general boarding lane then people start congregating and forming a queue in the priority lane, so then when priority boarding is called they either have to send all the non-priority and non-status people away? And from the tone of...

I recall numerous times pre-Covid where the QF A380 fleet was often plagued with despatch reliability problems because of the fresh water and pump systems on-board, and the notoriously unreliable refrigeration systems on board. Given that they parked them all out in the desert and then had an...

Yeah - as the article says the "unfortunate timings" of the flight are really an aircraft availability issue of Qantas not having enough A330s and the duplication of the SYD-SIN flight times is again, not enough right sized aircraft, and the SYD curfew coming into play. I'm assuming that PR has...

Scrapping of A380s = stupid decision Converting A330s to freight = stupid decision B787 delivery delays = no surprise to anyone by now A350 Ultra long range certification delays - good idea but delay entirely foreseeable/predicatble

For only $130-ish or so more to get from Zipair Y product to its J herringbone layout, seems like a pretty reasonable price, I am hoping that JQ downguaging its CNS-JPN services to A321XLR's would encourage Zipair to fly to either NRT-CNS or NRT-OOL and that would be a game-changer although the...

Utterly predictable outcome of an airline that chose not to have a web site, over-extended itself with too few aircraft and then couldn't operate as per its schedule, unsurprisingly the public were not interested in paying hundreds of dollars for a lottery ticket as to if your booked flight...

I think with Newey's future up in the air (about which team he may go to) we might see a lot of drivers want to leave their options open in order to get into a Newey car. Every single team will want Newey, so it will be quite the process for him to decide where to go. Whoever gets him will be...

I agree with your opinion but the execution was too late to steal recently laid off VA JQ & QF staff, could have secured leased aircraft at lower rates, stuck to one or two bases, a web site from day 1. Good idea ruined by poor execution. Like Tiger, now their reputation is in the toilet they...

I think its relevant here, as QF's only real domestic competitor (VA) has possibly lost some of its ability to enforce priority boarding as well as it used to a few years ago, anecdotally at least. So for people that really care about priority boarding, or people who might see it as a point of...

And how did the infant get through customs and immigration without a valid ticket? Was this in Malaysia or in Australia?

Yeah - Carlos Sainz is a good driver, I think Ferrari will regret letting him go, and its crazy that he is out of contract at the end of this year, I also think that Mercedes or Red Bull would be happy to consider him, not that Perez is doing a particularly bad job but I wouldn't be surprised to...

It certainly looks like VA have got their cancellation rates under control and on first glance the on-departure time performance for everyone seems to be converging around the 75% mark which is still pretty bad overall, but notable that nearly everyone from Virgin, Qantas, Jetstar and Rex seem...