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DEAD RECKONING By Robert Stockdill
The Basil Fawlty School of Airport Management

Sydney Airport Corporation’s massive shortcomings were brutally exposed this week when a magazine survey that might usually be considered barely relevant ranked it amongst the world’s worst.

When is a low-cost carrier a mainstream carrier?

While most aviation analysts are (understandably) focussing on the impact of fuel prices on the airline industry, there's a silent cataclysm underway which is reshaping the airline industry almost by stealth.

Meet Virgin Blue’s best marketer: Qantas

There’s nothing like a good old fuel crisis to shake out the airline industry. And for much of this year, that’s exactly what the whole industry has been going through.
One of the outcomes of this has been the rapid blurring of the line between traditional full-service carriers and discount airlines.

Singapore & Qantas: the wedding that won't happen

Of all the rumours to surface in an industry in tumult, the old cliche "Singapore and Qantas are talking about merging" has to be the easiest to dismiss.

Beware the Green Brick Road...

Air New Zealand's bold aim to use one million barrels of 'green fuel' annually by 2013 carries an enormous risk factor.

Willie, you’ve missed the point!

BA chief Willie Walsh’s predictions the soaring price of oil will kill low-cost-carriers totally misses the point.

 
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