The so-called slow bake of Qantas started in earnest in February with the airline dismissing a claim from the Australian and International Pilots Association (AIPA) that Qantas flightdeck crew job security is imperiled as “completely unfounded”, while warning that the pilots’ wage requests are not viable Brought to you by the Australian Aviation Dec 2011
Grounded planes. Fuming unions. Government intervention. Qantas’ brush with disaster 10 years ago sounds more familiar than we may care to admit. There’s a line from one of Geoffrey Thomas’ articles that, lost in the middle of the coronavirus crisis as we are, jams in your head like a door stop: “This dispute is about
Screw it, let’s do it, says Branson – but is he still the man to save Virgin Australia and Atlantic?
Despite being only a 10 per cent shareholder, the British billionaire seems particularly wounded by the collapse of Virgin Australia and his savaged reputation at home and abroad. Adam Thorn asks whether one of aviation’s big beasts has one more comeback left in him Virgin Australia Group’s decision to enter voluntary administration was confirmed to
Welcome to the May instalment of Australian Aviation In Focus, a great new initiative we launched last month for our subscribers to allow deep dive analysis of the issues impacting aviation Where do I start… The genesis of In Focus was the need to deliver immediate interpretation of the big stories making headlines on Australian