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)