Plane Crazy Down Under

Thanks to an opportunity presented by Shashank Nigam, Grant’s just had an article about the ongoing Jetstarisation of QANTAS published on Shashank’s Simpliflying site.
It provides a background on the birth of Jetstar, its growth to date and how it is destined to consume more of QANTAS’ mainline routes & aircraft. Head on over to Simpliflying and check out the article.
Thanks to Shashank for giving us the opportunity to gain further [...]

The crew at Flight Experience Melbourne are having an Open Night on the 27th January and we’re going along. They’re giving away 10 minute sessions in their 737 sim to the first 20 people in the door (need to register before hand).
We’re going to be there to interview people for a future episode as well as have some fun (and enjoy the drinks & nibbles :)
If you’re in Melbourne, Australia [...]

We were a little delayed because Grant was trying to do it all this week, but better late than never. With Steve in the USA, Grant was flying solo and discovering that he missed having someone to put the gear up on take off.
This week’s episode includes the following topics:

Air New Zealand joins Tiger to say that Delta teaming up with V Australia (Delta V) is bad, but QANTAS stays [...]

 

 Plane Crazy Down Under - Episode 003 [23:08m]: Play Now | Play in Popup | Download (525)

Surprisingly less than one week after our first episode was released, we’re releasing our second episode. During this one, we discuss the following items:

Singapore Airlines to fly A380 to Melbourne

Superjumbo threat to Qantas stepped up (Steve Creedy @ The Australian)

British Airways cutting flights to Australia

British Airways to cut flights to Australia (Steve Creedy @ The Australian)

Garuda ends their only flight to Darwin

Plea for Garuda to retain Darwin flights (Daniel Bourchier [...]

 

 Plane Crazy Down Under - Episode 002 [34:27m]: Play Now | Play in Popup | Download (623)