Andrew Temby
While Max Flight from the Airplane Geeks couldn’t be with us, having the other guys from the show record with us was a hoot and certainly generated a LOT of content for a future “Bloopers Only” episode. We’re definitely looking forward to recording with them again once our sanity recovers.
Dr Bruce Searle
The topics discussed in this episode include:
- A general discussion of airline issues down under with the Airplane Geeks
- Emirates and V Australia to codeshare on Tasman routes (Leithen Francis @ FlightGlobal)
- V Australia to Codeshare with…Emirates? (Dan Webb @ Things in the Sky)
- High fuel prices may clip recovery (Steve Creedy @ The Australian)
- Premium passengers slowly return to flights (Steve Creedy @ The Australian)
- Qantas CEO: See No Further Room For Capacity Cuts In This FY (Wall St Journal)
- INTERVIEW: Qantas CEO: Passenger Demand Higher Than Expected (Wall St Journal)
- Qantas jettisons JAL merger rumour (Steve Creedy @ The Australian)
- Virgin in talks to buy $4b planes (Matt O’Sullivan @ The Age)
- Virgin Blue to buy 30 to 50 737s? (Australian Aviation magazine)
- Virgin Blue’s plan to seat more passengers (Steve Creedy @ The Australian)
- Brett Godfrey true believer in 50pc Virgin share (Steve Creedy @ The Australian)
- Talking about Air Traffic Control issues with Rob & David
- Staff shortage sparks national flight delays (ABC News)
- Flights delayed or cancelled as air controllers “unavailable” (Sydney Morning Herald)
- Sydney’s flight schedule ‘to return to normal’ (ABC News)
- Airservices, staff on collision course (Steve Creedy @ The Australian)
- Virgin Blue to pursue AirServices Australia for compensation for its air traffic failures (Ben Sandilands @ Crikey)
- Military to lose airspace in $300m savings push (Cameron Stewart & Steve Creedy @ The Australian)
- David Vanderhoof presents “This week in Australian aviation history” covering the official approval for the establishment of the Central Flying School at Point Cook (now referred to as RAAF Williams)
- Grant went to the Mission Aviation Fellowship airshow at Coldstream Airport (YCEM) and recorded these interviews
- Dr Bruce Searle, Dean of the Australian Centre for Mission Aviation
- Andrew Temby, aerobatics pilot and owner of a Yak-52TW
- Matt Hall came 3rd at the Porto RedBull AirRace in Portugal – YAY!
- We discuss some military news
- We review some of the “Traffic” entries from the latest Australian Aviation magazine
- OzJet 737-200s
- V Australia’s latest 777
- RAAF KC30 MRTT
- Air New Zealand’s 767 with blended winglets
Please note that our theme music track is “YouNameIt5″ by Brian Simpson (aka t3cat5) and our sound effects come from SoundSnap.com.
