This week’s episode comes out a little late as Steve’s still in the USA and Grant was up in Sydney for the PCDU / SimpliFlying TweetUp that happened along side the Asia / Pacific Aviation Outlook Summit 2009. A great time was had by all who attended the event but now it’s back to work as there’s news to read, interviews to arrange and a podcast to produce.
This week’s episode includes the following topics:
- Jetstar launches world first SMS based boarding pass
- Comparing Geoff Dixon with Alan Joyce at QANTAS
- Qantas boss a cautious optimist (Matt O’Sullivan @ The Age)
- Global aviation faces slow return to profits: Dixon (Steve Creedy @ The Australian)
- Joyce rules out Qantas merger (Matt O’Sullivan @ The Age)
- Alan Joyce kills off IPO plans amid Pacific rationalisation forecast (Ross Kelly @ The Australian)
- QANTAS fights back
- Swine Flu impacts air travel and Cathay Pacific struggles
- Virgin fights back, raises money and has a health scare
- V Australia Launches New One Way Fares to USA
- Virgin share offer takes flight (Matt O’Sullivan @ WA Today)
- Food poisoning scare on Virgin flights (ABC News)