Let’s get straight into this this week – here are our headlines from around the world:
Continue reading This week: Indonesian Volcano causes Bali disruptions & more
Well, what can I say? For the first time in the history of the weekly LateDeparture airport news round-ups, I decide to take a leave of absence for a couple days. Plus – and this really was the big mistake – I decide to pre-write the news without a disclaimer of when it was written. Naively I thought, what can possibly shake up the airport world in the 3 days I’m away? Oh dearie-me, how wrong was I? One day into my leave (note, I didn’t even have any means of communication at all), the Australian carrier Qantas decides to ground its entire fleet worldwide. Thousands of passengers got stranded across the globe while Irish-born Alan Joyce – the airline’s CEO – bet on a solution to its ongoing, costly disputes with the unions. He got his way, even though they say it’s not yet entirely over, but further threats of future strikes from the unions are out of the way for the moment.
Continue reading This week: Qantas, east coast storm and stranded Everest tourists
The recent grounding of Australia’s ultra-low cost carrier, Tiger Airways, over safety concerns, got us thinking: what other significant airline groundings have we witnessed in recent years and how do they compare? Well, we’ve done the homework for you – here are our top five: Continue reading Top 5 Airline Groundings
