Qantas keeps it head low in the news lately
Aug 25, 2003, 5:53 pm
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QANTAS chief Geoff Dixon vowed yesterday to protect the flagship airline against what he described yesterday as "unlawful union activity".
Aug 26, 2003, 6:42 pm
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Aug 26, 2003, 7:10 pm
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Air France has seen profits fall by more than 95% as a result of the Sars respiratory virus, strikes at home, and the weakness of the global economy
Aug 27, 2003, 5:11 pm
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Air France said on Wednesday that talks with Dutch airline KLM had become more active recently, with the airlines examining what sort of returns an alliance would bring...
Sep 10, 2003, 12:16 am
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Qantas experiences flight delays out of Melbourne due to computer upgrade glitch.
Sep 16, 2003, 6:37 pm
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Sep 16, 2003, 6:41 pm
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while Air France, KLM and Alitalia are set to take crunch decisions on Wednesday on a tie-up that could put them on the path to creating Europe's largest airline
Sep 18, 2003, 6:14 pm
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QANTAS and Virgin Blue yesterday began round one of the four-airline knockout bout for control of the Tasman.
Gotta love these price wars....how about BNE to AKL though
(would love to go in Nov, QF)
Gotta love these price wars....how about BNE to AKL though
(would love to go in Nov, QF)
Sep 22, 2003, 6:12 pm
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Qantas suffered a marked downturn in international passenger numbers in July as the global aviation industry struggled to recover from the impact of war and the SARS virus.
Maybe now they'l realise that they should have added a premium Y cabin like WT+
- they've lost a lot of premium revenue paxs to BA (whose numbers should start similarly climbing)
So, using my simple mathematical approach, means that loads overall were 82% on Intl routes. QF would be with that - appears that they have been getting the right mix of available flights and pax numbers.
(Edited to add last quote and para)
[This message has been edited by QF WP (edited 09-22-2003).]
Maybe now they'l realise that they should have added a premium Y cabin like WT+
- they've lost a lot of premium revenue paxs to BA (whose numbers should start similarly climbing)
<font face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="2">Qantas's favoured measure of passenger numbers, international "revenue passenger kilometres", fell 11.7 per cent to 4.21 billion kilometres. The airline's seating capacity, measured in "available seat kilometres", decreased by 11.5 per cent to 5.13 billion. </font>
with that - appears that they have been getting the right mix of available flights and pax numbers.(Edited to add last quote and para)
[This message has been edited by QF WP (edited 09-22-2003).]
Sep 22, 2003, 7:29 pm
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<font face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="2">Originally posted by QF WP:
Maybe now they'l realise that they should have added a premium Y cabin like WT+ - they've lost a lot of premium revenue paxs to BA (whose numbers should start similarly climbing)
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Maybe now they'l realise that they should have added a premium Y cabin like WT+
- they've lost a lot of premium revenue paxs to BA (whose numbers should start similarly climbing)</font>
Sep 22, 2003, 8:35 pm
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<font face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="2">Originally posted by og:
As has been said previously, why bother to fly QF Y when you can go BA WT+ and get extra SCs, a better seat and not pay that much more. The only downside is a BA cabin that is too hot. I bet QF are regularly checking how much traffic they are loosing to BA because of this.</font>
As has been said previously, why bother to fly QF Y when you can go BA WT+ and get extra SCs, a better seat and not pay that much more. The only downside is a BA cabin that is too hot. I bet QF are regularly checking how much traffic they are loosing to BA because of this.</font>
Sep 22, 2003, 9:03 pm
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Pity, cause I'd fly as far as HKG/NRT to connect to BA WT+ to USA...I'm with you NM (particularly because of their high incidence of op upping WP's to J 
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Sep 22, 2003, 10:18 pm
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<font face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="2">Originally posted by QF WP:
Pity, cause I'd fly as far as HKG/NRT to connect to BA WT+ to USA...I'm with you NM (particularly because of their high incidence of op upping WP's to J <IMG SRC="http://www.flyertalk.com/forum/thumbsup.gif"> )</font>
Pity, cause I'd fly as far as HKG/NRT to connect to BA WT+ to USA...I'm with you NM (particularly because of their high incidence of op upping WP's to J <IMG SRC="http://www.flyertalk.com/forum/thumbsup.gif"> )</font>
For the return, however, JFK-LHR-SYD in WT+ beats the hell out of QF108 Y overnight! Try doing it with every seat full, urgh. (I remember being the only one in the cabin many years back, had one row for meals and another whole row for sleeping, now that was fun.)
fn*. the reason being that since you're going to be exhausted when you get there, an extra 10hrs won't make *that* much difference
Sep 22, 2003, 11:56 pm
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<font face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="2">Originally posted by aura:
I've even considered flying Syd-LHR-JFK to get WT+ (!)[fn*] but won't do so as long as QF107 remains a daylight flight. The 10.45am-12.45pm departure is so much better than the later afternoon that it used to be (? 4pm ?) cos you don't really get tired till the US transcon.</font>
I've even considered flying Syd-LHR-JFK to get WT+ (!)[fn*] but won't do so as long as QF107 remains a daylight flight. The 10.45am-12.45pm departure is so much better than the later afternoon that it used to be (? 4pm ?) cos you don't really get tired till the US transcon.</font>
Sep 30, 2003, 7:37 pm
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Richard Branson and Chris Corrigan are no strangers to the media spotlight, but their fledgling airline, Virgin Blue, is apparently yet to achieve household-name status.
From the article:
There is obviously something to be said for the negative sentiment associated with Sir Richard (as well as to a lesser extent, Chris Corrigan).
I love one of the quotes in the article:
Need I say more - not me
From the article:
<font face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="2">Forty-five per cent of Australians "accept" or "identify with" the Virgin Blue tag, according to the AustraliaScan survey being compiled by Quantum Market Research. That is only 3 per cent more than the number who remain loyal to the Ansett brand more than two years after its last passenger flight.
And with Virgin Blue's $1.4 billion-plus public float expected in the next 12 months, a more worrying statistic is the 22 per cent of respondents who "reject" the brand altogether.</font>
And with Virgin Blue's $1.4 billion-plus public float expected in the next 12 months, a more worrying statistic is the 22 per cent of respondents who "reject" the brand altogether.</font>
I love one of the quotes in the article:
<font face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="2">...the dominance of Qantas - 68 per cent of the population identify strongly with the flying kangaroo ...</font>
