You can't believe newspaper headlines
Packrat,
I have just been to Conde Nast Traveller Magazine's website and looked at the survey results. The highest scoring airline was SQ with 87.99/100, Qantas was 7th with 81.88. This is nothing like the figure of 47.3 you quote.
There are many Australian newspapers, not many publishers though, and surprise, surprise they all come up with a headline saying 'Qantas panned.' Look at the body of these articles and there is nothing to support the headline.
The media in this country are a disgrace. They continually use sensational headlines to create a perception which is not borne out by the facts. Another illustration is on-time performance. I have just had a look at airline on-time performance figures at the DOTARS website. The latest data published is from Jul07 to Jul08. Comparing the results for DJ and QF by looking at the graph for on-time arrivals, Qantas's on-time performance was better than Virgin Blue's in 9 of the 13 months. Virgin Blue managed to better QF in Jul07, May08, Jun08, Jul08 only. Is this what the Australian media tell you?
obira
Last edited by obira; 7th Oct 2008 at 02:09.