Qantas
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DOT Continues to Spit Fire at American and Qantas, So They’ve Walked Away
Before the Thanksgiving holiday, I wrote about how the Department of Transportation (DOT) had tentatively denied American and Qantas’s joint venture plans.…
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DOT Gets Strangely Feisty in the Administration’s Dying Days, Denies Qantas and American’s Joint Venture
With less than two month’s left until a new administration takes over here in the US, it looks like the Department of…
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Qantas Walks Away From Inflight Internet on Its Longest Routes
It didn’t make huge news, but last week when Qantas announced it had decided to stop offering internet onboard on its A380…
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Qantas Smartly Leaves British Airways for Emirates
There was huge news from down under last week when the rumored link between Qantas and Emirates was officially unveiled. This certainly…
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Qantas Goes NBA, Locks Out Employees and Shuts Down Over the Weekend
When you think about airline labor disputes, you probably think about strikes. After years and years of negotiating, the unions gain the…
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Qantas Lays Out Its Conflicting Plans to Fix Itself
If you’ll be near LAX this Saturday, mark your calendar to celebrate 5 Cranky years. Join me and Johnny Jet at In…
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Australia: The Most Interesting Airline Market in the World
Tucked down in the corner of the world, Australia is usually not the first place to come to mind for, well, just…
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Cranky on the Web (December 13-17)
Congress Might Finally Break the FAA Funding Logjam… Maybe – BNET Headwinds Now that Rep Oberstar is gone, the FAA reauthorization might…
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Cranky on the Web (December 6-10)
Boeing’s Response to the Airbus A320 Revamp Is Simple: Nothing – BNET Headwinds Now that Airbus has decided to re-engine the A320,…
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Cranky on the Web (November 22-26)
Qantas A380: Now We Know Why the Planes Were Grounded — and It’s Scary – BNET Headwinds As more details on the…
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Cranky on the Web (November 8-12)
Qantas A380: Airline Earns Black Eye for Poor Customer Response to Crisis – BNET Headwinds The Qantas A380 problems continue, but this…
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Qantas A380 Grounding Causes Disruption, What Should You Do?
By now you all know that a Qantas A380 had an engine failure last week that caused enough concern that the airline…