The panic
My take on the info is that with $36 billion worth or whatever the figure is on order already Leigh Clifford freeked and read the riot act. Sounds like the steep learning curve for the mining industry bovver boy is underway, but the lesson on why we need new jets really urgently hasn't been delivered, or listened to. I wonder if he also kyboshed the earlier claim by Dixon that he was getting six new A330s.
Virgin Blue is suffering for the same reasons. It is run by a major shareholder that doesn't want to be there, but has its arse on fire because the rest of the trucking, shipping, wharfing business is also seriously impacted by high fuel, something the morons who get quoted in the media don't seem to have cottoned on to.