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Episode 314: Qantas Profit, oh Qantas Profit, where for art thou???

Posted on September 3, 2014 by admin

Taking advantage of the Bits N Pieces nature of this episode, Steve & Grant sneak in a longer AusDesk than usual. This time it’s back to Qantas who have announced a record loss thanks to some restructuring they’re doing as … Continue reading →

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Episode 212: Qantas Reports First Loss Since Going Public

Posted on August 29, 2012 by admin

It’s a big news week with the Australia Desk covering a number of stories: Qantas is big in the news with: Qantas reports a $244m loss (their first since becoming a public company) Alan Joyce will not be getting his … Continue reading →

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Episode 210: Good News, Everyone!

Posted on August 15, 2012 by admin

We’ve got some good news on the maintenance & engineering front so we figured it was too important to leave to later: TAE (a wholly owned subsidiary of Air New Zealand) are opening new workshops in Brisbane & Adelaide to … Continue reading →

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Episode 175: C-17s, C-130Hs, F-111s and Qantas makes a media boo boo

Posted on November 29, 2011 by admin

In this episode, Steve likes the current exchange rates, RAAF C-17 acquisition programme progresses, 4 ex-RAAF C-130H aircraft gifted to Indonesia, 23 ex RAAF F-111 airframes dumped in landfill in Queensland, Qantas CEO death threats investigation dropped by New South … Continue reading →

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Episode 174: Air Australia, Tiger and Qantas

Posted on November 22, 2011 by admin

This week, Air Australia targets low price and international, Tiger posts a loss (but is being allowed to expand a bit), Qantas and the unions still drags on, AirForce1, the 787 and some more Grill the Geeks cylonics.

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Episode 162: Profits, losses and a score of hours

Posted on August 30, 2011 by admin

It may be winter cold down here in Australia but nothing like the severe weather the USA is experiencing. Perhaps a way to warm up is to run through some news? The government will be conducting a fighter capability gap … Continue reading →

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Episode 51: A Dark & Stormy Flight

Posted on June 8, 2009 by admin

As Courtney prepared to leave the Airplane Geeks, he noted that Australia holds the lead for providing non-USA news segments for the Airplane Geeks. Go us! :) Steve sends in his recording opening with the news that Qantas is feeling … Continue reading →

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