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A letter that was supposed to be kept "in-house" in Australia’s low cost operator airline, Virgin Blue, has found its way on to the internet PIREP.org :: View topic - Virgin Blue tries to stretch resources without recruiting

Remember that Swiss Army knife in your flight carry-on that you’d forgotten about until the guards who x-rayed your stuff at the airport security checkpoint “discovered“ it. You wern’t planning on hijacking the fight, or even carving your name into the seat-back tray table. It had been a...

Good auto mechanics aren’t easy to find, and when you do get a good one, you stick with him, knowing you’ve found a guy who can tune, service, and maintain your car in tip top running order. Now I like cars - especially those “top of the range” vehicles like Ferrari and Rolls Royce...

For people around the globe, and especially for Australians, whether at home or overseas, QANTAS has meant employment for Australians within Australia, frequently overseas in offshore QANTAS offices, and supplementary employment for some non-Australian staff. But the current CEO of QANTAS, Mr...

I've stolen/borrowed some questions from PIREP.org, asked by True Blue Vegemite, that I feel are relevant, and becoming even moreso, as airlines (QF in particular) continue to jack these surcharges up. At what stage of the accounting process the revenue raised from the collection of fuel...

If airlines can afford to feed their crews, they can jolly well afford to feed those of us who PAY for the priviledge of allowing them to fly! Here's some photos of what you could expect to get, as a crew member CREW MEALS I'd be happy to share them 50-50 with a companion traveller. It's about...

Nice website presentation. Hi all, a search for this topic revealed zilch, so I thought as a thread opener I would let all of you FF'ers know about a website that I and a couple of other Aussies kicked off earlier this year. Its name is PIREP.org, and the logo for the website is PIREP is the...