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• Stupidly Careless Airline Pilots Kind Of Becoming A Thing

  
  Vagabondish — Authority: 521
  © 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 ...
  18 hours ago

• Qantas pilots forget to lower landing gear

  
  eTurboNews - Travel and Tourism Industry News — Authority: 539
  Qantas flight JQ12, a Boeing 767, was on approach at Sydney Airport on October 26th, when the pilots received a "gear too low" warning at about 700 feet. read more
  1 day ago

• YouTube video sinks Turnbull minder

  
  Ohaiyo Business Magazine — Authority: 431
  A media minder for Federal Opposition Leader Malcolm Turnbull has reportedly quit his job after being linked to an online bout of Liberal factional warfare. The video parodies Liberal MP Alex Hawke by portraying him as an enraged Adolf Hitler, echoing a YouTube trend of dubbing Hitler biopic Downfall with fake ...
  3 days ago

• Faulty fuel pump forces US-bound Qantas jet to turn back

  
  Thaindian News — Authority: 715
  Sydney, Nov 7 (DPA) A Qantas Airways passenger jet flying from Sydney to Los Angeles was forced to return to Australia because of a faulty fuel pump, news reports said Saturday.The A380 carrying 329 passengers landed in Melbourne Friday because of inclement weather at Sydney airport. yahooBuzzArticleHeadline = ...
  4 days ago

• Etihad signs new codeshare deal with UKs Flybe

  
  PlaneTalking.com — Authority: 143
  Etihad Airways customers around the world will soon be able to fly to a host of new regional airports within the UK, following the signing of a new codeshare agreement with Flybe, the biggest regional airline in Europe.
  5 days ago

• 09:15 - Industrial action on the cards for airline passengers in the lead up to the holidays.... (audio)

  
  Collectors — Authority: 812
  Engineers meet today and Cathy Bell is speaking with the director of the Aircraft Engineers Union - the APESM - Catherine Bolger.
  6 days ago

• Belly Flop!

  
  The Friggin Loon — Authority: 151
  Another day, another reason not to fly. Two Qantas pilots have been given their marching orders after they forgot to lower the wheels as they came into land. Whoops! The Boeing 767 was only 700ft off the ground when the flight crew realized their boo-boo. But not to worry   the “gear too low” warning screeched ...
  1 week ago

• An epic wait for an epic Tourism Australia ad

  
  mUmBRELLA — Authority: 693
  In the 16 months since DDB was appointed to the Tourism Australia account, many outside observers would probably have expected to see a big global ad or two by now.   But apart from the Baz Luhrman-driven tie-ins with Australia, the movie, all has been relatively quiet. It sounds like the drought nearly ended. ...
  1 week ago

• Poor leadership linked to soldier’s death

  
  Ohaiyo Business Magazine — Authority: 431
  Deficiencies in training, leadership and deployment readiness may have contributed to the death of Lieutenant Michael Fussell in Afghanistan last year, a Defence inquiry has found. The Major in charge of the operation in which Lieutenant Fussell died on November 27 has now been stood down from his command. ...
  1 week ago

• Best economy flight evva!

  
  ginger's thoughts — Authority: 106
  Over the years, I have flown a lot – mainly between Sydney and Frankfurt or Sydney and San Francisco. Today, for the first time in a long time, I had a flight with Qantas from Sydney to San Francisco. And I must say: it was the most productive and most comfortable economy flight I had in a long time. This is gonna ...
  1 week ago

• Airbus A380 Sightseeing Flights Over Antarctica

  
  Airline world — Authority: 103
  Australian one world member Qantas is already operating 4 Airbus A380s, and is awaiting two more for delivery in late 2009. Now Qantas is offering a very special experience aboard this very special aircraft: Sightseeing flights above the all-white, mysterious Antarctica – the world of endless ice and snow. Now a ...
  1 week ago

• Qantas Wins Dubious Honour

  
  Flight International — Authority: 424
  Maybe there is such a thing as bad publicity. The Age reports : Qantas says it does not deserve "in any way" the "Shonky" award itreceived from Choice today, for what the consumer watchdog believes isthe airlines "sky-high" surcharge on bookings made with a credit card. The Shonky awards - now in their fourth ...
  1 week ago

• Northern Exposure

  
  Stu's Shed — Authority: 136
  In the end, it was quite a massive day, an absolute whirlwind.  From waking at 5am, I was home 1am the following day (thanks in part to some disruptions to flights on the way home on Qantas, and in part because I got to the airport 30 minutes early iaw my ticket, and was told it was too late, and for a local flight I ...
  2 weeks ago

• Wednesday 18:45 - Claims Qantas no longer deserves "worlds safest airline" title....(audio)

  
  Collectors — Authority: 812
  John Barron is speaking with Journalist Matthew Benns author of the book "The Men who Killed QANTAS", who started by talking about the exploding oxygen bottle incident.
  2 weeks ago

• Aldi, Qantas, L’Oreal and Uncle Tobys among major brands winning Choice awards for shonkiness

  
  mUmBRELLA — Authority: 693
  Australia’s shonkiest brands have been named and shamed by campaigning consumer organisation Choice, with Loreal, Qantas and Unlce Tobys among those in the firing line.   They were among the brands named in Choice’s Shonky Awards which were announced today. Choice gave the awards to: • Aldi’s Chefs’ ...
  2 weeks ago

• Continental Airlines – A Star Alliance Member

  
  The Wandering Aramean — Authority: 423
  As expected, lots of updates hit Continental ’s website at midnight CDT this morning, and the Star Alliance details are all over the place.  From the hundreds of lounges now accessible for  Presidents Club and Star Gold members to an interactive travel reward chart that is actually comprehensive and ...
  2 weeks ago

• Mile Run: Frequent flyer miles, obsessions and what to do with my relationship with Qantas

  
  The BOOT - The Business of Online Travel — Authority: 120
  I have been mulling over my relationship with Qantas. I have just achieved life time Gold status with them while also qualifying for my ninth year in a row as one of their Platinum fliers. That said, I have not flown Qantas long haul for almost a year. My last trip was economy class Qantas to Singapore almost a ...
  2 weeks ago

• Australia: autumn internationals form guide

  
  Family: News and advice on family matters children and parents — Authority: 975
  The twotime World Cup winning Wallabies are on their way to British and Irish shores for a tilt at a Grand Slam over the home nations in the November Tests. Are they up to the task?
  2 weeks ago

• Killara High School -- A School Close to Home...

  
  The RAB Experience — Authority: 129
  The students of Killara High School have a tradition of making an end-of-year video. This particular one, 2009, has made it onto YouTube. It is exceptional. Even though it is a spoof of the Qantas ad campaign of "I Still Call Australia Home", it says some pretty important things about the way schools are funded along ...
  2 weeks ago

• Harbour Bridge picnic may become annual

  
  Ohaiyo Business Magazine — Authority: 431
  This mornings massive breakfast picnic which closed the Sydney Harbour Bridge could become an annual event. Sydneys first Breakfast on the Bridge, held as part of a city-wide food festival, has been hailed a success, with about 6,000 picnic goers in attendance. The eight lanes of bitumen were given a temporary ...
  2 weeks ago

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