Victorian premier Daniel Andrews' exit, the extraordinary story of Mike Pezzullo's text messages, and the Senate inquiry into QANTAS and the Qatar Airways saga. Catch up this week's politics.
Peter Martin, Crawford School of Public Policy, Australian National University
Price discrimination is charging customers who don’t mind paying more than those who do – and businesses do it all the time. But Qantas seems to have taken it to a new level.
At a crack-of-dawn news conference at Canberra airport, King suggested the 2020 incident was a factor, although “there was no one factor that influenced my decision in relation to the national interest”.
Embattled Qantas boss Alan Joyce will quit immediately, bringing forward his retirement by two months. A Qantas statement early Tuesday said the CEO had advised the board he was doing this “to help the…
On its face, the decision to deny Qatar 21 flights into Australia suggests Australia is making decisions about international rights in order to protect the profit of an airline it hasn’t owned since 1995.
Like most governments, this one arrived in office promising more accountability and transparency. Also like others, in practice it has a penchant for control and secrecy.
From not enough staff to get planes in the air, to reducing the environmental footprint of an ageing fleet – an international aviation expert on why the next few years will be a bumpy ride for Qantas.
When you’re down an engine and you have lot of water under you, you have a process to follow. You don’t panic, you don’t go off the rails, you remember your training, and that’s what happened here.
Ultra long-haul flights make it possible to go Sydney to London non-stop. But does the world need them, given they are more polluting and less efficient?
Professor in Transport and Supply Chain Management and Deputy Director, Institute of Transport and Logistics Studies (ITLS), University of Sydney Business School, University of Sydney
Incoming Director of the Australian Institute of Business and Economics at UQ, and Professor of Management, Faculty of Business and Economics, Macquarie University