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• Bad behavior at the airport, Hollywood style and how to tips for keeping your cool

  
  Gadling — Authority: 702
  Filed under: Arts and Culture , Airlines , Video , Airports When passengers show bad behavior at the airport, everyone notices. Bad airport behavior is one place Hollywood gets it right, even when scenes are a bit outlandish. Here are two scenes that show just what can happen when a passenger is vexed ...
  2 days ago

• Resurrection of ReadyRooms - New life for former Qantas online hotels brand

  
  The BOOT - The Business of Online Travel — Authority: 124
  In July 2004, Qantas proudly announced the launch of ReadyRooms ( another announcement story here ). An online last minute hotel booking system to take on Wotif , Lastminute.com.au (then owned by travel.com.au now owned by Wotif) and RatestoGo (owned by Orbitz). Then sometime around late 2006 early ...
  4 days ago

• Singapore Airlines named Airline of the Year

  
  dailyQi — Authority: 140
  The end of the year means annual award time. The Official Airline Guide (OAG), the London-based aviation information company, announced the Airline Industry Awards. To nobody’s surprise Singapore Airlines once again walks away with the Airline of the Year award. The top award winners by category for 2009 are: ...
  4 days ago

• Did Qantas further cut 787 orders?

  
  Leeham News and Comment — Authority: 124
  The Center for Asia-Pacific Aviation (CAPA) reports that Qantas of Australia now only lists 25 firm 787 orders and 25 rights to purchase the airplane in its latest fleet plan. Boeing still shows 50 orders by the airline, which previously had 65 on order but  canceled 15 and restructured the delivery stream on the ...
  4 days ago

• Qantas to Add 43 New Aircrafts in Its Operations

  
  My Share Trading — Authority: 122
  In an attempt to shore up margins and give a boost to profitability, Qantas Airways ( QAN ), is planning to spend as much as $4.4 billion over the next two years. This includes the amount that the airline is willing to spend to buy 43 aircrafts including eight Airbus SAS A380s. Qantas will spend about $1.7 billion ...
  4 days ago

• BA to fly away with Qantas, too?

  
  Dealscape — Authority: 428
  British Airways CEO Willie Walsh is either an optimist or a sucker for punishment as he wants to reopen talks with Qantas before closing on the purchase of Iberia.
  4 days ago

• Australian Transport Safety Bureau issues interim reports on two Qantas accidents

  
  Aircrew Buzz — Authority: 112
  by B. N. Sullivan During the past week, the Australian Transport Safety Bureau (ATSB) released interim updates on the investigations of two separate accidents involving aircraft operated by Qantas. QF 30 depressurization, January 25, 2008 The ATSB issued an interim factual report on the investigation ...
  6 days ago

• The Men Who Killed Qantas – Matthew Benns

  
  BookOffers.com.au — Authority: 147
  The Men Who Killed Qantas is the new book exposing the national carrier by Sun Herald journo Matthew Benns. This book is the account of the Qantas story that every airline passenger needs to read: the full and frank history of Australia’s national airline. It takes you into the boardroom, where golden parachutes ...
  1 week ago

• Upgrades and Downgrades: Tray table ads, A380 high and low, forfeiting Amex points, and more

  
  Upgrade: Travel Better — Authority: 463
  Downgraded: The view on AirTran While US Airways has long had ads on the tops of their tray tables , which you only see if you pull the tray down, AirTran is going a step further and pasting ads on the undersides — the side you see during takeoff and landing, when those traytables are in their “upright and ...
  1 week ago

• No answers yet on Qantas plane plunge

  
  eTurboNews - Travel and Tourism Industry News — Authority: 542
  Investigators are still looking for an answer to why a Qantas jet fell more than 300 feet mid-flight last year. read more
  1 week ago

• Inflight duty-free beauty shopping with the flying kangaroo

  
  The Informed Makeup Maven — Authority: 501
  As I count down to heading home for Christmas, Ill be featuring an inflight beauty shopping series. These posts will review airline inflight duty-fee beauty shopping. To kick off the series, Im going to review my airline of choice - QANTAS. Despite John Mayers protestations , the flying kangaroo has never let me ...
  1 week ago

• Qantas check-in chaos

  
  eTurboNews - Travel and Tourism Industry News — Authority: 542
  A three-hour crash of Qantas check-in system has caused delays to domestic and international flights across the country, with passengers having to be manually processed. read more
  1 week ago

• Brand Naming and Acronyms

  
  Branding Strategy Insider — Authority: 462
  An acronym is a pronounceable word formed from the initial letters of a name (WAC, for Womens Army Corps), or formed by combining the first parts of a series of words (RADAR, from Radio Detecting and Ranging). As these examples suggest, once an acronym becomes embedded in the language, most people forget -- or never ...
  1 week ago

• APEC leaders dilute carbon targets

  
  Ohaiyo Business Magazine — Authority: 135
  Prime Minister Kevin Rudd is jointly hosting a climate change breakfast on the sidelines of APEC in Singapore, though the Pacific rim leaders have watered down climate change targets in their final statement. Climate change has been the big new issue on the usually trade-centred agenda of the Asia Pacific Economic ...
  1 week ago

• What we’re reading: airlines say no to re-regulation, Qantas plans premium service upgrades, FAA not easing NY traffic congestion,Las Vegas deals

  
  Consumer Traveler — Authority: 144
  Major US carriers urge the Obama administration to say no to re-regulating the industry or to intervene in airline operations.
  2 weeks ago

• Qantas: Planes will fly Despite Industrial Actions

  
  My Share Trading — Authority: 122
  Australia based Qantas Airways ( QAN ) has claimed that the industrial action staged by the engineers of the airline will not lead to grounding aircrafts as out of hours call-outs and a ban on over time will be made effective today. The professional engineers of the airline are going to stage industrial action as ...
  2 weeks ago

• 09:50 - Airline passengers face huge disruptions as Qantas engineers take industrial action... (audio)

  
  Collectors — Authority: 818
  The unions Catherine Bolger and David Epstein from Qantas are telling Anna Hipsley their views over the issues.
  2 weeks ago

• Iberia shakeup turbocharged merger talks

  
  Family: News and advice on family matters children and parents — Authority: 970
  They have been among the longestrunning merger talks in corporate history. But at last its "doors to manual" for British Airways £4.4bn allshare merger with Iberia.
  2 weeks ago

• Qantas plans airport of the future

  
  eTurboNews - Travel and Tourism Industry News — Authority: 542
  Speaking at the National Aviation Press Club today, Qantas chief executive, Mr. read more
  2 weeks ago

• Stupidly Careless Airline Pilots Kind Of Becoming A Thing

  
  Vagabondish — Authority: 544
  © Denniss We’re not usually ones to complain about airplane safety. You don’t need to be able to cite all those statistics about how flying is safer than driving – though it’s true – to realize that we live in the safest period of commercial air travel ever. At the beginning of this year there had been ...
  2 weeks ago

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