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Monthly Archives: September 2010
Episode 116: Combat Jets on the Gold Coast
Grant’s up at Tweed Heads with his family and was hanging out at Gold Coast International Airport (YBCG) when Steve called to record the Australia Desk segment. The news items discussed included: The alliance between Virgin Blue and Etihad has … Continue reading
Posted in Australia Desk
Tagged A4, ACCC, Etihad, F111, F18F+, Gold Coast, Growler, RAAF, RNZAF, Tweed Heads, Virgin Blue, YBCG
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Episode 115: The Oprah-Jet
We briefly touch on a few items: Boeing lifts forecasts for aircraft useage in Oceania Victoria will not get a DC10 water bomber next season but will instead get 2 Convair 580s & another Erickson skycrane British Airways may still … Continue reading
Posted in Australia Desk
Tagged ACCC, British Airways, Convair 580, DC10, DoT, Erikson Skycrane, Etihad, John Borghetti, John Travolta, Oprah, Qanttas, Richard Branson, Virgin Blue, water bomber
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Episode 114: Virgin Blue’s Strategies in Tatters?
Virgin Blue has received some rather bad news this week: US DoT rejects the Delta-V alliance across the Pacific ACCC rejects the Air New Zealand trans-tasman alliance We also talk about how Qantas are putting mainline aircraft on some routes … Continue reading
Posted in Australia Desk
Tagged Air New Zealand, Delta, Delta-V, Department of Transport, discount, DoT, Jetstar, Pacific, premium, Qantas, Trans-Tasman, Virgin Blue
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Episode 113: The Kids help out on Father’s Day
It’s Father’s Day down here in Australia and we bring our sons in to help record this week’s segment. Topics we cover include: A Qantas 747-400 has an uncontained engine failure about 45 minutes after departing San Francisco, leading them … Continue reading
Posted in Australia Desk
Tagged 747, Chris Visscher, Emirates, Etihad, Father's Day, kids, Nykolai McHerron, Qantas, San Francisco, translation, Virgin Blue
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