Virgin Blue has poached another key Qantas executive, this time head of airports customer experience Roger Lindeman. Lindeman, a 40 year Qantas veteran, will join Virgin Blue in early 2011 as general manager service experience. “Roger’s renowned customer service skills have won him many accolades and awards. He will be a huge asset to the
Qantas has announced it has signed a formal agreement to purchase Perth based fly-in/fly-out resource contract charter operator Network Aviation, which is to become a fully owned Qantas subsidiary. “We have reached agreement with the owners of Network Aviation to purchase the business. It presents strong growth opportunities and we will immediately look at significantly
Strategic Airlines has announced plans to operate new Brisbane-Denpasar nonstop Airbus A330 services from March 19. Strategic plans to operate twice weekly flights on the route, departing Brisbane on Wednesdays and Saturdays, operated by its A330-200, which is configured in a two class 30 business, 243 economy class configuration. Strategic already flies between Brisbane and
Checks ordered by the ATSB to look for the fault suspected of causing the QF32 uncontained engine failure have discovered a further three affected Trent 900 engines, one of which was fitted to a yet to be delivered Qantas A380. “Three engines failed the inspection and were removed from service for further examination,” the ATSB
Regional Express has again announced it will assist those in regional areas affected by adverse weather, setting aside a $200,000 travel fund to assist flood hit residents of regional NSW. “These regional communities have continually supported Rex through the difficulties of the past few years with the pilot shortage, GFC, rising fuel prices and attempts
The ATSB has launched an investigation into a breakdown of separation incident between a Qantas 767-300 and what is reported to be a Virgin Blue 737-700 near Melbourne on December 5. “The two aircraft were tracking on the same route when separation reduced to 1.9nm horizontally and 300ft vertically,” the ATSB website reads. “Separation standards
