Tag Archives: Air New Zealand

Episode 120: Ramp Rash, Tigers & Ballooning

Posted on October 26, 2010 by admin

Beautiful weather leads to some great hot air ballooning for Grant in the Yarra Valley but meanwhile there’s heaps of aviation news to review down under, including: Australian Department of Transport tells the US DOT that the Delta-V alliance should … Continue reading →

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Episode 119: Pacific Peso Parity

Posted on October 19, 2010 by admin

Now that the Australian dollar has finally returned to parity with the US dollar (for the first time in decades), Grant has had to drag Steve away from hunting microphones on eBay to record the AusDesk. This episode we cover … Continue reading →

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Episode 114: Virgin Blue’s Strategies in Tatters?

Posted on September 14, 2010 by admin

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 →

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Episode 112: Media Scrums

Posted on August 31, 2010 by admin

Grant is recovering from the beatings he sustained at the media scrums for both Air New Zealand’s and Virgin Blue’s end of year financial results. The news items we cover in this episode were: Air New Zealand’s results were slightly … Continue reading →

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Episode 111: Jogging Dump & Burn

Posted on August 24, 2010 by admin

In recognition of the Airplane Geeks reaching episode 111, we have an F111 flying past as we go for a jog. The topics we cover include: Australian BlackHawk in Mayday emergency landing in East Timor Tiger Airways CEO & some … Continue reading →

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Episode 108: Cash for Clunkers

Posted on August 3, 2010 by admin

Grant is flying high on pain killers after damaging his shoulder so Steve’s considering calling him a clunker & cashing him. Meanwhile, things are getting hot over the Tasman airspace: AirAsiaX may leap into trans-Tasman market United doesn’t think Delta-V … Continue reading →

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Episode 106: Delays, groundings, finances & LemSips

Posted on July 20, 2010 by admin

Grant’s hauled himself to the microphone to record despite having a nasty cough & sore throat but the show must go on: Air New Zealand may be going to buy a chunk of Virgin Blue shares over & above their … Continue reading →

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Episode 69: Air NZ issues a Bare Essentials challenge to Southwest Airlines

Posted on October 19, 2009 by admin

The boys manage a miracle and produce a short OzDesk episode for this most bodacious episode number. Kicking off across the ditch in New Zealand, Air New Zealand has taken their Bare Essentials safety video one step further and issued … Continue reading →

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Episode 68: It’s torches and pitchforks as Qantas shareholders prepare for the AGM

Posted on October 12, 2009 by admin

Grant’s been meeting with a bunch of Qantas shareholders preparing for the Qantas Annual General Meeting and they’re not happy, with torches and pitchforks being made ready for the big event that this year is being held in Perth. Retreating … Continue reading →

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Episode 67: Humanitarian Aid & Disaster Relief in the Pacific

Posted on October 6, 2009 by admin

The boys are celebrating with a screaming mass of people because Australia’s population just exceeded 22 million. So, in a country that’s almost as big as the USA there’s still lots of space for them (if only it weren’t all … Continue reading →

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