11
Sep
2009
Episode 8: Riding Our Segways
We thought we’d have this episode out within a few days of our previous one, but there was so many news items to review, so much to discuss and so many bits to splice together that it took a whole week to bring it to you. Weighing in at almost 2 hours, this episode has interviews, GA, follow ups and much much more.
With some brilliant segways between topics (and a few clangers), this episode includes the following items:
- Changes after the Kokoda accident
- Virgin Blue and Delta rebuttal against Air New Zealand
- As we predicted, JetStar are going to Fiji
- Webjet pressured by competition to drop fees
- Listener comments about laser pointers and aircraft
- @DanWebbage from the Airplane Geeks provides feedback on United Airlines and their 747-400s on the Pacific route
- @DanWebbage also gives us a report on a recent conference where he got to try different aircraft seats
- Some QANTAS stories from mechanical to financial
Qantas makes emergency landing in Perth (Geoffrey @ The West Australian)- Qantas yields remain under pressure (Bill Lindsay @ The Australian)
- Qantas feels the heat from the east (Geoff Easdown @ the Herald Sun)
- Qantas braces for long haul in red: IATA figures (Steve Creedy @ The Australian)
- Qantas yield contractions continue, but appear to have stabilised; SIA downgraded on yield squeeze (Centre for Asia Pacific Aviation)
- Discounted tickets lure more to Qantas in July (news.com.au)
- It’s a Jetstar a rising at Qantas (Ben Sandilands @ Crikey)
- The Australian Government is putting its travel management up to tender
- Interview with Karla Courtney from the QANTAS Travel Insider
- Tiger Airlines aircraft hits a flock of birds
- Airline review results are in
- Jetstar Pacific in Vietnam may have breached the law
- Interview with Shashank Nigam” from SimpliFlying
- Final missing RAAF aircrew from the Vietnam conflict found and returned for burial
- Diggers’ bodies to return from Vietnam (news.com.au)
- Vietnam airmen’s remains flown home (Max Blenkin @ The Courier Mail)
- 39yr wait over as Toowoomba farewells Vietnam pilot (Sam Burgess @ ABC News)
- State funeral for Vietnam War airman (ABC News)
- http://www.airforce.gov.au/raafmuseum/research/aircraft/series2/A84.htm
- About #2 Squadron in Vietname and more about #2 squadron
- History of Canberras with the RAAF
- Images of the Canberra that crashed
- Thanks to David Vanderhoof for the research
- Plane makes emergency landing in paddock (ABC News)
- Man survives plane crash in Abbotsbury (Michael Chammas & Stacey Vanoska @ the Fairfield City Champion)
- Student pilot crash lands in paddock in Prospect (Vikki Campion @ the Daily Telegraph)
- NOTE: Thanks to @DavidOptimal for the info
- Observer has to fly King Air until pilot recovers (thanks to @DavidOptiimal and others for the inside story)
- Government is taking steps to halt inappropriate development on airports
- We mention some web sites:
- Owen Zupp’s website about his trip around Australia to raise money for the Royal Flying Doctor Service (There and Back)
- Noel Kruse has released some free flight training books online (Fly Better)
Student pilot makes emergency landing after engine fails (same pilot as the runway overrun reported a few weeks ago)
Tags: Adelaide, Air New Zealand, Airplane Geeks, B57, Bankstown, Canberra, Dan Web, Delta, Fiji, finance, Jetstar, Jetstar Pacific, Karla Courtney, Kokoda, QANTAS, QANTAS Travel Insider, RAAF, RFDS, Royal Flying Doctor Service, segways, Shashank Nigam, SimpliFlying, Tecnam, Tiger Airways, Toowomba, Virgin Blue, webjet
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