Current shareprice of AUD 5.18, (which should be AUD0.00) not enough compensation for you?

The share price is irrelevant, but no. It wasn’t enough compensation because the firm was still forced to absorb hefty charges through the lockdown, causing the firm to announce losses.It also had to dilute existing shareholders because of a capital raise due to a forced lockdown.

You have it in reverse in terms of the fascism angle. If the government told the firm and others to shut down operations and there wouldn’t be any compensation, then that would indeed veer towards fascism.

The business operates lawfully as a going concern. If the freaking government wants to shut it down, it owes the firm/ shareholders compensation.

“This is happening across the country, and may just be the death blow to the Trudeau Government,” Bexte added. “The election may be a ways away, but he’s done.”

No Castro’s boy is not done. Trump is. The anti-left still think the West can be rectified. It can’t. The only thing saving Trump is his security detail. Keep an eye on that not the Fiddler on the Roof court-room antics which only function to sedate and confuse the sheeple. When the security detail disappears so does Trump.

Cronkite, learn to code.

The only thing saving Trump is his security detail. Keep an eye on that not the Fiddler on the Roof court-room antics which only function to sedate and confuse the sheeple. When the security detail disappears so does Trump.

I don’t think Trump trusts his Secret Service detail, he has his own security. I think I read somewhere that one of his SS guards informed against him to the DOJ investigators in the documents matter. After what they did in Venezuela when accompanying Obama there with drinking and prostrates I wouldn’t trust them either. Perhaps RFKJ is better off without an SS assigned detail.

Dot

Qantas can generally run older planes because the distances are much longer than for other carriers, which means there’s much fewer takeoffs and landings, which is what causes stress and ages planes quicker. It’s like comparing a car that does mostly city driving to driving long, regular distances in the country. The city car wears out faster.

Also, give them a break about cancellations, etc. They were just starting back up after two years of forced closure. Read Terry McCrann’s comments in a piece he wrote. He said the money not returned was nowhere near the hysterics; it was about 10 mio.

Ender

But really, sitting in an albeit very comfortable lounge would induce corruption? Perhaps it’s just me, I can’t even be bothered using the business lounge then traipse to the waiting gate. Perhaps, people do go apeshit about where they’re sitting go get on a freaking flight.

Triggered alert, from the pinhead.

Dover, Dover, you, you see that?

Dover!

Even humble me. On a ten hour connection.

How often does that happen?

More often than you think. We fly FFPs. And sometimes it’s a long time between flights.

My choice. My lookout.

10 hours and you should take a room in the airport hotel.

Has anyone ever actually made a club sandwich at home?

Why not Japan?
The exchange rate is pretty good atm.

Bear – I’ve never had a club sandwich, they look pretty decent.

Almost compulsory if you have access to room service for the full hotel experience.

Look, Qantas has taken the eye off the customer ball even more than usual, driven by hubris from the CEO down to the baggage handlers. One could argue their political activism has also been a mistake, but I don’t rate that anywhere near the commercial damage done by their shabby treatment of customers (and it’s not just flight credits).
But, weally Wodney Woddenhead?
Swallowing the ABC line on this?
Since Q got into trouble the ABC have been sticking the boots in, but not from the customer service angle. It’s all about getting the Union band back together and running it like Ansett circa 1995.
So their go-to guys are the ex LAME union head (Purvinas), pilots union and AWU. Why do you reckon the “investment guy” was on their speed-dial Wodney?
Wouldn’t be up to his ears in QAN short positions by any chance, would he?

I was agreeing. I’m just suggesting with the Aussie sinking again USD etc it’s cheapish.
We shared hotel with Aussie kids on a ‘cultural exchange’.
20 students, 5 teachers.

Snake wars.
OK, I’m not keeping a red bellied black as a pet, right.
But, on a scale of 1 to 10 (taking into account toxicity of venom and aggression), I am rating them a 2 against tigers, taipans, browns (all 8+) or even copperheads (5).
(There is a formula for this, but I won’t bore you with it).
Here’s the clincher.
Red bellied blacks are highly territorial when it comes to other snakes. If you have one in your yard, it is highly unlikely you will tread on a tiger snake or anything else equally dangerous.

Oh and up the Mighty Pies!

Dot

What’s you view on the Gulf Airlines receiving fuel and borrowing subsidies with respect to competition from airlines that don’t have that luxury?

Daily Mail.

Viewers slam NRL grand final entertainment with ‘knock off’ Tina Turner as ‘something you’d see at Rooty Hill RSL’: ‘That’s embarrassing!

JC

Oct 1, 2023 7:56 PM

Sanchez

Ultimately, the proof will be in the pudding because all these negative feelings people have against Q will have to translate into loss of market share, both international, but more so domestically. We’ll see next quarterly.

Which is where this should be decided.
In the market.
Wodney’s ABC-sourced solution to forcibly turn it into some sort of aviation version of Bwitish Lleyland isn’t going to cut it.
If, as you say, the flight credit thing was so minor, why didn’t they just fix it?
I mean, I’ve worked with CEO’s and Chairmen who would say, “$10 million? Really? That all? Just fkn fix it. Let me know when it is done. Any time before Friday lunchtime will be fine.”

Qantas Chairman’s Lounge membership comes at a price

I must say I quite enjoyed my (brief) period when I rose to Silver FF. I’m easily bought. Even those every 10th free coffees.

Qantas can generally run older planes because the distances are much longer than for other carriers, which means there’s much fewer takeoffs and landings, which is what causes stress and ages planes quicker.

Crikey. A takeoff, climb, hull pressurisation, descent & landing are called a “cycle”.
Each aircraft has a rated number of takeoff/landing cycles. Generally the larger (i.e. longhaul) the aircraft, the lower the number of cycles.
747 have about half the number of flights before the hull has to be retired than say a 777. An airbus A380 has (from memory) about half the cycles of a 747.

Performing one cycle per day for a 747 wouldn’t make it last much longer than a 737 doing 3 flights per day, as the 737 is rated at almost 3x the number of cycles of a 747

Hope this helps.

Even the online booking system seemed less of a pain in the ass, although that may just have been a placebo effect. Getting bumped into Business for Heathrow to Singapore was an unexpected bonus.

Some of the airfares paid by people for their Euro getaways at the moment are eye watering.

Interesting thing about pressurisation in an aircraft.
You are not pressurised to sea level.
I checked my Brietling Biggles watch whilst travelling at 39,000 feet on the trip to Japan.
The very expensive watch told me I was at 7,000 feet.
I trust the little altimeter system in the watch was accurate.

Interesting thing about pressurisation in an aircraft.
You are not pressurised to sea level.

That and the lack of humidity in older planes makes you feel like a dried log.

Manufacturer says “this many cycles”
End of formula.

Which changed significantly after the Aloha 737 did a passable impression of a sardine can.
The science of pressurisation cycles in 2023 is largely settled.
But it was a yuuuge learning curve from the 50’s to the 80’s, starting with purely catastrophic failures of under-specced airframes (Comet), the effect of high cycles in a corrosive environment (Aloha) and the impact of high cycles after poorly executed repairs to crunched airframe (JAL).
Whilst not a cycle problem per se, the United 747 which lost a forward cargo door (and 9 passengers) over the Pacific, was a fatigue problem partially caused by constant cycling.
Boeing never openly admitted it, but suddenly field program to beef up “Section 41” was embarked upon.
As an engineer explained it at a conference I attended on fatigue:-

“You build something like this (pointing to the funny ovoid shape which was the cross-section of the 747 forward section). You then pump it up a few thousand times. Every time you do that to this shape it wants to be round. Which weakens it here (pointing to the junction between the two shapes).”

Anybody know how to link to Andrew Bolt, and his programme on this “Aboriginal” woman and her stupid “Songlines?’ I can’t believe the legal system took her seriously!

JC at 9:21.
Yes.
A passenger or flight attendant on Aloha noticed something funny around the door before boarding the sardine can flight.
Your pal is right.
Even in non-pressurised aircraft you look for tell-tale signs of incipient structural failure … wrinkled skin, rivets working loose, paint showing signs of flaking or crazing where it shouldn’t.
And, like your house, when doors don’t shut properly, it’s a bad sign.

Be a shit time in Brisvegas right now. But then again, eat many bags of dicks.

Anybody know how to link to Andrew Bolt

Go to Sky News Australia Videos and scroll down.

Thank you, P. I am obliged to you.

Piers Akerman:

In a desperate attempt to claw back waverers, media supporters of the Voice to Parliament campaign are highlighting those who have switched their prospective vote from No to Yes. But would anyone really follow Melbourne activist Tarneen Onus Browne on his journey to Yes remembering Browne has also told an Invasion Day rally of hopes Australia would “burn to the ground”?Perhaps vacuous virtue-signallers such as teal MP Allegra Spender might explain how they can rationalise being in the same camp as Browne or foul-mouthed independent Indigenous senator Lidia Thorpe, even Noel Pearson, in backing a near-permanent change to the Constitution. Another twig Yes supporters are clutching at is the fact the Uluru statement was awarded the Sydney Peace Prize for 2021-22.

Professor Dr Megan Davis, one of the authors who acknowledged it is not just a single document (though she recanted once the damning background documents with their demands for reparations were revealed) has brandished the prize as though it was some great honour.

One of the taxpayer-funded ABC’s many activists, Radio National presenter Patricia Karvelas, is another who has trumpeted the award as proof of something or other when it has been overwhelmingly given to those who support the Left-wing other.

Past Sydney Peace Prize winners have included the #MeToo movement, which so severely rebounded on women, many companies expressed reluctance to employ attractive women and have been found more likely to exclude them from social interactions because of an increased fear of accusations of sexual discrimination.

Then there is the Black Lives Matter organisation, whose Marxist goals included the abolition of the family, queer-affirming and trans-affirming, and whose own financial report claimed it raised $93m in 2020 though there is just $60m in its bank account while its founders have gone into hiding. Oh, and BLM also wants to abolish the prison system and the courts. Expatriate Leftist polemicist John Pilger, for whom the conservative wit Auberon Waugh, coined the word “pilgerism” to describe the writer’s reliably Left-wing stance on everything, has been another winner.

Elitist inner-urban Yes proponents offer nothing but the vibe and the vague promise any concerns raised by the prospect of a huge change to the Constitution separating Australians into two classes – those who claim to have an Aboriginal ancestor no matter how distant, and the rest – will be dealt with in the future.

The No campaign is on firmer ground with its view that all Australians should be treated equally under the Constitution and that race should be irrelevant in our multicultural society. That was the hope of the greatest leaders of genuine peace movements of the past century – Mahatma Gandhi, Martin Luther King and Nelson Mandela. I’m cautiously optimistic the No vote will prevail on October 14.

When the dust settles, Prime Minister Anthony Albanese and Indigenous Australians Minister Linda Burney should actually listen to the voices of courageous Indigenous leaders such as Northern Territory senator Jacinta Nampijinpa Price and her constituents.

That’s 0 out of 2 for the toads. Palachook is stuffed.

GreyRanga

Oct 1, 2023 9:23 PM

Thancho, one of my rellies was a designer on the Comet and Trident.

Crikey!
They were leaping into the unknown a bit.
From memory it was a variation on the “wants to be round” 747 problem. The windows were square-ish with rounded corners, which is were the cracking started. The sudden catastrophic failure wasn’t something they had contemplated. I think they thought any failures would be slow and detected in regular inspections.
Didn’t the Comet (or derivative) have a life as a RAF aircraft?

Didn’t the Comet (or derivative) have a life as a RAF aircraft?

Nimrod Patrol aircraft – entered service as a replacement for the Shackleton.

Daily Mail.

Oregon middle school refuses to say if hulking bully filmed pulverizing much smaller girl to floor on hallway is transgender, after sickening clip triggered bomb threat

Student at Hazelbrook Middle School in Tualatin was seen dragging another pupil by her backpack in the hallway before pulling her hair and hitting her
Police arrested the alleged attacker who is now facing assault charges and the case has been referred to the Washington County Juvenile Department
The school was forced to evacuate everyone on Friday after threats of bombs and a school shooting were made following uproar over the attack

Thanks Ranga.
Not his fault. Leading edge and bleeding edge stuff.
The Nimrod.
Submarine surveillance I think.
Worked fine once the problem was understood.
But it was never taking paying passengers again.

FWIW, I kind of liked the look of the Comet, with the engines buried into the wing root.

I may have OD’d on salad but…

Salad at a Grand Final do?
Say it ain’t so!

WA to end commercial logging of native forests
By Kathryn Magann
October 1, 2023 — 2.53pm

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Western Australia has joined Victoria in banning commercial logging of native forests from next year.

The WA Forestry Minister Jackie Jarvis says timber will only be removed from the state’s native forests in the future to maintain forest health and for approved mine site operations.

“This move by the Cook government will safeguard our ionic forests for generations to come,” she said on Sunday.

The government will spend $350 million investing in the state’s softwood pine plantations to provide building material and protect existing jobs, as well as provide another 140 new positions.

The investment would help ease the state’s housing crisis as well as prevent climate change by boosting pine forest populations, Jarvis said.

“The record investment in WA’s plantation estate will ensure we can continue to build houses in WA, supporting both the local construction industry and the South West forestry industry,” she said.

The government had already spent $80 million on the Native Forest Transition Plan that included significant industry restructure payments.

WA Environment Minister Reece Whitby said nearly two million hectares of native karri, jarrah and wandoo forests will be protected for future generations.

“This decision reflects the changing attitudes of the community towards our native forests, building on the legacy of the Gallop Labor Government ending old-growth logging,” he said.

The move follows the recent announcement by the Victorian government that native timber harvesting in state forests will be gone by the end of the year

Maybe upticks and downticks are a drag on the blog?
Maybe?