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Yes there would be FIFO & management & mining industry contractors (people).

Yes they have made a mistake, if they reneg on their already offered and ticketed reroute from PER to SYD on VA and then SYD-HND on NH (return) you will have fun putting them through a consumer law misleading and deceptive conduct proceedings, which you will win as a slam dunk. Hang onto your...

Agree with all your good points there, although ANA continued flying between Australia and Japan even throughout Covid, so that seems to me that they have a solid commitment to the market for some reason and/or there must be some money in it, considering they are competing against JL JQ and QF...

Agree - this is a business that potentially had all the right ingredients for success (good staff, aircraft and on-time performance and a good regional network) while both Virgin and Qantas were busy self-sabotaging with lack of capacity, sky-high airfares, extensive delays, lost baggage, "not...

Agree - wrong place due to wrong aircraft, if they were able to fly direct from HND to even BNE SYD or MEL they would have been filling the planes full of Australians who have been flocking to Japan in record numbers, just like JQ QF NH and JL who have all been filling their planes with...

Slot squatting by Bain who thought that they were the cleverest in the room. Not looking so clever now by missing the IPO window with presumably the capacity handed back to Qantstar just in time for the profitable ski season. Facepalm moment for Bain and the management at Virgin who dealt...

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...