Is Qantas giving a hint on their next aircraft type with this loan amount? Qantas raising A$350 million in loan, allows switching aircraft types used as collateral https://www.reuters.com/article/us-qantas-fundraising/qantas-raising-a350-million-in-loan-allows-switching-aircraft-types-used-as-colla...
Jump to postPolice blitz on taxi drivers refusing short fares at Melbourne Airport - a big problem for those who live in or have to travel to surrounding suburbs (and these can include some not so close suburbs as well). Didn't realise it was a $396 fine for a taxi driver to refuse a fare once hailed! http://w...
Jump to post3) Taking into account the wind on AKL-AYQ they also have to refuel the aircraft, I don't know if any of the current operators do refuel at AYQ at all? I've seen plenty of A1 tankers parked up (overnight) on the Lasseter Highway (or Coote Rd which is the road down to the airport itself) waiting for...
Jump to postDidn't they initially choose BNE (at least in part) because they got payroll tax relief?
Jump to postsmileymilo wrote:Is this not the biggest to go under since Pan Am?
I thought NZ were doing AKL-Norfolk Is.-SYD and back the same way with a A320 a couple of times a week?
Jump to postOnly our older members would remember the utter carnage when Court Line and Clarksons Holidays went bust. The ATOL scheme is there to mitigate that. The fund is there to minimise misery. That's the result when an airline or tour operator folds. It's a small surcharge on flights (buried in the airli...
Jump to postPre-planning is quite different to spending many hundreds of thousands of pounds positioning planes before anything happens (and may not happen) CAA reportedly wasted over £25M last year on it. http://www.travelweekly.co.uk/articles/283354/cost-of-caas-monarch-shadow-airline-revealed 25 million qui...
Jump to postGiven that charter planes are being positioned in advance (as they were this time last year) I can't help but think that the ATOL protection scheme is gold plated. The ATOL scheme is to give holiday makers some comfort that if their operator goes broke, they will get home. There is a cost to this -...
Jump to postGiven that charter planes are being positioned in advance (as they were this time last year) I can't help but think that the ATOL protection scheme is gold plated. The ATOL scheme is to give holiday makers some comfort that if their operator goes broke, they will get home. There is a cost to this - ...
Jump to postWith more than 2 weeks' notice no compensation is payable under the EC directive.
Jump to postPresumably a company could have (by policy) a limit lower than the legal limit. So if you were somewhere between the two you would have breached the company policy and be subject to the resulting disciplinary action (i.e. up to termination of employment) but you wouldn't have committed an offence.
Jump to postNew CEO for Sydney Airport has been announced. Geoff Culbert replacing Kerry Mather.
Culbert is ex GE Australia.
It's only the schengen zone (which is smaller than the EU) which is effectively passport free for people. The customs zone is broader than the EU (and schengen). Frankfurt and Zurich just have different levels of the same terminal for schengen and non-schengen flights. This way the planes can use th...
Jump to postPanHAM - I'm not comparing an insolvency to a pipeline. My point was really in response to the misgivings about the actions of the KfW - and just testing the extent to which those have a blanket objection to a function of government interfering in the market. It seems that the argument by some is th...
Jump to postOK so if the Navy ship being used to alleviate the situation of the burst pipeline is ok - is it also ok for the government to say underwrite a portion of a duplication pipeline (say by providing a low interest loan) - which absent the government underwriting wouldn't be financially viable?
Jump to postFor those suggesting that the KfW shouldn't be doing what it is - what do you think about the New Zealand navy using one of its ships to transport fuel as a result of the cracked fuel pipe causing shortages (see: http://www.airliners.net/forum/viewtopic.php?f=3&t=1373993&start=100 ) Isn't th...
Jump to postDon't forget that the rail lines to Sydney and Brisbane airports both promptly went broke after they opened.
Jump to postSTN is not that less convenient than LHR from large parts of Central and East London. Sure if you are in West London and you can get to Paddington (for the Heathrow Express) easily then LHR is more convenient than STN - but if you are anywhere East of ~Holborn then it's going to be much of a muchnes...
Jump to postI think they should have more than a few days of fuel in storage at AKL airport. 1-2 weeks worth of normal operations would be a better margin for these sorts of events. 2 weeks usage is about 56 million litres. At about $0.60 per litre this is ~NZ$33.5m in working capital permanently tied up in ju...
Jump to postThis conversation comes up every quarter or so and the 'the airport was there before people purchased' argument is always trotted out. The reality is that aircraft noise is disruptive and disproportionately impacts those closest to the airport. These people vote and are entitled to vote and to vote ...
Jump to posteamondzhang wrote:
I would certainly back that idea as long as the runway capacity is there. Those man-made restrictions are just ridiculous IMO.
Michael
During the 90s QF ran QF61/62 CNS-DRW-SIN a mix of 763/74L. I believe this ran all the way to the early 2000s when it was picked up by the short lived AO. My first international flight was QF61 DRW-SIN on a 763 in Early 1994. There was also a 763 SIN-HKG tag on flight originating in PER? In the ear...
Jump to postI agree that a full 737 is cheaper on a per seat basis to operate than a full 717. But full planes is not the be all and end all of everything - a full 717 can (particularly on a 50-60 minute flight time) have a higher return on capital employed than a full 738 (and return on capital employed is kin...
Jump to postI just looked at SYD-MEL for the first time in years and noticed that QF are during the weekday morning and evening peaks times running a flight every 15 minutes (and every 30 throughout the rest of the day). I can't help but wonder if QF are going to pick up some more cheap F100s for WA (or even t...
Jump to postI just looked at SYD-MEL for the first time in years and noticed that QF are during the weekday morning and evening peaks times running a flight every 15 minutes (and every 30 throughout the rest of the day). I can't help but wonder if QF are going to pick up some more cheap F100s for WA (or even th...
Jump to postWhich aircraft currently in service can do ORD-SYD with a reasonable payload on the westbound?
Jump to postIt's being reported that the 'device' was to release hydrogen sulphide and that the AFP mocked up similar devices and tried to get them through security around the country (to see if airport security would pick them) - and they were stopped by security in every instance.
Jump to postNZ only survived 2001 because of the massive injection of capital from the New Zealand government. Existing shareholders went from holding 100% of the company to 13% (if my memory serves me correctly).
Jump to postEven if enhanced security screening becomes the norm on domestic flights - I suspect the queues will settle down as security officials and the public adjust. In Europe and the US a lot of time and effort is put into explaining what you need to do at the security checkpoint. Even for frequent flyers ...
Jump to postQF DXB-LHR and vv 388
LA SYD-AKL and vv 787
NZ LAX-LHR and vv 77W
BA SIN-SYD and vv 77W
I have a lot of investment in Darwin and am quite familiar with the economics and population :p And no, I don't think launching DRW to CDG right now would work, the proposal was half in jest, half serious and from the perspective that its a business model that would help Darwin grow. You're right t...
Jump to postG-CIVP wrote:
The main reason why the thresholds were raised was due to the volume of speculative and spurious claims being made.
They just don't have that much slack in the A380 schedule - so a technical problem bites quite hard.
Jump to postI think that under the Chicago Convention the QR SYD-CBR-SYD sectors can (at least in theory) be combined with an international sector on another airline provided that it is on the same ticket. So in theory it would be possible for say a passenger flying from YVR to CBR to buy a ticket YVR-SYD(AC)-C...
Jump to postA subfleet of 737s with lie flat J does open other opportunities such as DRW (east coast redeyes) and CNS(peak syd/mel) as well if they get the balance right. As a veteran of 100+ DRW-eastcoast redeyes (all but 1 in economy) - I don't think that the redeye is super high yield. Even during the boom ...
Jump to postEurowings did it because of labour-tariffs. But there are other probable causes. For example: "According to the Austrian VAT Code, the supply, modification, re- pair, maintenance, chartering and hiring of aircraft that are deter- mined to be used by airlines operating for reward mainly on inte...
Jump to postQantas to start offering PAX an inducement to swap flights to a less busy flight to open up seats for sale at higher fares: https://www.bloomberg.com/amp/news/articles/2017-07-12/united-wants-to-sell-your-seat-to-someone-else-for-more-money (h/t - http://www.airliners.net/forum/viewtopic.php?f=4&...
Jump to postWas on QF546 that returned to Sydney. The terminal was chockers with Qantas unable to find accommodation and rebook many guests onto other flights, they ended up making an announcement that they would courden off a section of the terminal and make it secure to sleep in or find your own accommodatio...
Jump to postYeah, ok. I don't think a 60 year old lady who inadvertently left some cartridges in her bag is public enemy number one. She still would have been charged if she had turned them over so she had nothing to lose by trying to dump them. Agree with you on public enemy number 1 comment but not on the no...
Jump to postI have recently started using an iPhone (4) and got the pop ups described above about this time yesterday whilst using the phone in Greece. I was just about to do a factory reset of the phone (thinking I had acquired a virus/malware) - I was directed to this link via VirginFlyer's signature after re...
Jump to postWhat I have trouble with is why would Airbus enter into a contract, which allows this? One would expect by the time an aircraft is delivered there is not much left to pay because of progress payments, which aren't refundable. That's why it is better for the manufacturers to pay late penalties, and ...
Jump to postqf2048 wrote:
Jetgo to commence BNE-Wollongong-Essendon.
Lack of shorthaul connections at BUD will be difficult to overcome. Personally I thought EK would be the most likely candidate to make a BUD-NYC offering. Aren't those two things directly contradictory? How does the EK option overcome the lack of shorthaul connections? (Leaving EK aside) Where woul...
Jump to postOn the topic of ERJs - when they got rid of the 170s (to DL (for the most part) I think) I remember reading somewhere that one of the VA execs said that they couldn't get any of their models to show them operating profitabily - which is hardly a ringing endorsement for what was (and in relative term...
Jump to postand when you don't have unions or decent worker protection laws you get this - https://www.usatoday.com/pages/interact ... h-nothing/
Jump to postand when you don't have unions or decent worker protection laws you get this - https://www.usatoday.com/pages/interact ... h-nothing/
Jump to postThe reason travel is non contractual is because under UK tax law, free or discounted travel is regarded as payment and you will be taxed quite substantially on it. By calling it an optional benefit (or privilege) that can be withdrawn at anytime, it is tax free for staff. That is standard across UK...
Jump to postG-CIVP wrote:luftaom & sk736 - See under "Steps to take following unlawful deduction of wages".
http://www.qualitysolicitors.com/small- ... ge-dispute
Unpaid wages claims come under the legal heading of "unlawful deduction of wages". These claims are heard by Employment Tribunals. Are you a Solicitor? I was suggesting an alternative avenue to an Employment Tribunal to prevent paying excessive Court Costs for processing the claim. http:/...
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